The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed the show will come to an end following season five almost immediately after telling possible viewers to “go watch something else” if they disagree with his agenda.
Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Tomer Capone as Frenchie, and Laz Alonso as Mother’s Milk in The Boys (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kripke was asked by the outlet’s Mikey O’Connell about using Homelander as a stand-in for Donald Trump in Season 3, “How did you digest the uglier reaction to that? I saw multiple headlines with the word ‘woke’ in them.
Kripke responded, “I clearly have a perspective, and I’m not shy about putting that perspective in the show. Anyone who wants to call the show ‘woke’ or whatever, that’s OK. Go watch something else.”
He added, “But I’m certainly not going to pull any punches or apologize for what we’re doing. Some people who watch it think Homelander is the hero. What do you say to that? The show’s many things. Subtle isn’t one of them. So if that’s the message you’re getting from it, I just throw up my hands.”
Antony Starr as Homeland and Cameron Crovetti as Ryan in The Boys (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
As for whether or not he thinks he is influencing people with the show, Kripke said, “It’s catharsis. I have no illusions about my job. I’m somewhere between a carnie and a court jester. I am not particularly up my own ass, so I don’t know if it’ll ever change minds. If it does, that’d be fantastic.”
“Look, I am a big proponent of genre — good genre, which doesn’t get enough respect. Through the metaphor of superheroes or space or whatever, you can say subversive things that you’d never get away with in most straight dramas,” he said.
However, he did go on to state the message he wants to convey with the show, “I’m a humanist. I think it’s important that a show have a lot of heart. We took great pains to create the moral universe of this show. It’s not nihilistic, as much as people say it is. If the show had a message, it’s that anyone who stands in front of you and says they can save the world is lying.”
Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir and Chace Crawford as The Deep in The Boys (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
A couple of days after this interview was published, Kripke announced on X that the series would come to an end following the fifth season while promoting the release date of the fourth season.
He posted, “The Boys Season 4 Premiere Week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the Final Season! Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax. Watch Season 4 in 2 DAYS, cause the end has begun!”
Eric Kripke on X
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