By Amazon Prime Video’s acclaimed hit superhero dark comedy series “The Boys” will end with its fifth season.
Showrunner Eric Kripke announced the news on social media. The comments come just two days before the show’s fourth season premieres on the service on June 13th.
Amazon officially announced the fifth season renewal a month ago but didn’t mention that it was the final season at the time.
Kripke himself has played coy, dodging the question in interviews and making no firm ending commitment. In the post he made revealing the show’s final season, he says that five seasons was “always my plan; I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought.”
He promises to bring the story to a “gory, epic, moist climax”. Separately, Kripke tells EW:
“Five just seems like a good round number. It’s enough to tell the story but also bring it to a climax without wearing out its welcome.
No one can watch this season (fourth) without feeling at the end like ‘It’s ending next year right?’ So we might as well announce it so people can watch it with that cool epic heading-toward-the-end feeling, which is what I’m hoping for.”
“The Boys” regularly hits Nielsen’s streaming top 10 when new episodes are running, and spawned a successful spinoff, “Gen V” which is in production of a second season.
The news also comes as reviews for the new season are now online, and so far the reviews have been decidedly softer than the past two seasons with an 82% (7.5/10) on Rotten Tomatoes.
Source: THR
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