The Boys Season 5 plans revealed by creator, Stars
“The Boys” has begun filming its fifth and final season and fans everywhere are wildly speculating about how the Prime Video superhero series will end.
Although he’s keeping mum on the details, “The Boys” creator and showrunner Eric Kripke said in a recent FYC panel alongside his stars that he’s enjoying the freedom that comes with the final batch of episodes.
“It’s really nice when it’s the end,” Kripke said Variety senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson at the SAG-AFTRA-hosted panel. “It’s difficult and the emotion of it hasn’t sunk in yet. But from a story perspective, you don’t have to continue the storylines into a subsequent season, which allows you to really blow the doors off in a very exciting way.
The panel also included “The Boys” actors Antony Starr (who plays Homelander), Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) and Jessie T. Usher (A-Train).
Starr expressed his gratitude for how Amazon’s Prime Video has given Kripke and the team of “The Boys” the space to decide when the show should end.
“I was just thinking what a great situation we’re in because a lot of times your show gets canned and you never see it coming,” Starr said. “You don’t see the train coming over the track. We’ve known since day 1 – you said five seasons. And I said, whatever, see if we’re okay! And no, five seasons, which is nice because we can go back. We know we’re leaving this project. We all keep in touch because everyone really gets along. But we will make the most of every moment we have together, as individuals and as creatives, because we have had that forewarning.”
Going into the final season, Kripke highlighted the fact that Homelander is “literally all trauma” after becoming the de facto leader of the “free” world through his machinations leading up to season 4’s presidential inauguration.
‘He’s literally all trauma. I think what he plays so beautifully about it is that he wants to be a god, but he’s a man. And it’s kind of slow, or maybe not so slow, which drives him crazy,” Kripke said. “So dealing with things like growing older, dealing with insecurity, dealing with the need for love – all very normal human things, these are all things that he finds detestable. He needs them, but he rebels against them all at once.”
Starr joked that he would like to make a Homelander spin-off series, with Kripke quickly joining in to develop the idea as a sitcom, adding: “‘Homefree’ is coming in 2025.”
