The Boys Season 5 Release Date Schedule, Story, and New Characters Explained

Well, well, well. If it ain’t the final season of The Boys, coming to Amazon Prime Video this April! Eight diabolical episodes await us as Billy, Hughie, Starlight, Mother’s Milk, Frenchie and Kimiko make one last effort to rid the world of Supes, or at least the worst one of all: Omelandah.

Who will die and who will survive the chaos of this fifth season? We simply do not know. We can, however, tell you everything you need to know about season 5 so you can stay on top of who’s in, who’s clutch, and when each episode drops.

Read on for all the details, savvy?

The Boys Season 5 Release Dates

The release schedule for the final season will unfold over two months, with the first two episodes premiering on April 8. Check out the entire schedule below…

Episodes 1 & 2: April 8

Episode 3: April 15

Episode 4: April 22

Episode 5: April 29

Episode 6: May 6

Episode 7: May 13

Episode 8: May 20

The Boys Season 5 Story

As we enter the final season, Homelander (Antony Starr) has secured a very powerful global position, while Starlight (Erin Moriarty) leads a resistance group, hoping to topple him. However, the rest of the gang has either been captured by Homelander’s minions or has scattered. They need to come together one last time to take Homelander down once and for all.

The good news is, they’ve discovered a synthetic pathogen that can kill Supes. The bad news is, there’s only one sample left, and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) will have to deploy it correctly—and at the right time—for it to have the impact they need.

As for any ongoing story post-finale, season 5 looks to be the last we’ll see of The Boys‘ main characters. While its current live-action spinoff show, Gen V, hasn’t been renewed for season 3 at the time of writing, another live-action spinoff series is on the way that focuses on Vought’s origins. Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) and Stormfront (Aya Cash) will be front and center in the 1950s-set Vought Rising, which is planned to be multiple seasons. Rest assured, there’s more diabolical action still to come!

The Boys Season 5 New Characters

Usually, there are quite a few characters joining new seasons of The Boys, but season 5 seems to be keeping it fairly low-key in that regard while it concentrates on wrapping up the show. That doesn’t mean the season’s new characters won’t have a big impact on the story, though, because there’s also a big Supernatural reunion planned for the fifth episode.

Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins, who played Sam Winchester and Castiel opposite Jensen Ackles in the beloved long-running series, will be portraying characters in The Boys‘ final season that could even rival Soldier Boy’s douchebaggery, according to creator Eric Kripke, who also created Supernatural back in the day.

“They show up in episode 5,” Kripke revealed to EW. “What I love about what they’re doing is they’re just such douchebags. It’s great. I mean, Soldier Boy is no treat either, but they’re just really not morally upstanding dudes. It’s a blast to watch them play that. It was just so much fun.”

Amazon and Kripke are currently keeping the exact details of Padalecki and Collins’ characters under wraps as they don’t want to spoil the surprise.

It’s been reported that Mason Dye (Stranger Things) will also feature in the final season ahead of becoming a series regular in the upcoming prequel show, Vought Rising. He’ll play a Supe called Bombsight.

Producer Seth Rogen is also set to make another appearance, having been spotted before in minor (but hilarious) moments in previous seasons of the show.