Amazon Prime Video is officially bringing one of its biggest originals, The Boys , to an end after five seasons. On Tuesday, ahead of the show’s season four return , showrunner Eric Kripke made the announcement on X, writing: “#TheBoys 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!” Several fans have responded to the news, relieved that the show — an adaptation of Garth Ennis’ graphic novels — will have a deliberate ending, rather than being dragged out like Kripke’s last show, Supernatural . “Good news, everything has to end,” one fan tweeted, with a second adding: “This is so sad but totally understandable! short and sweet.” “Really sad about this,” a third wrote, “but so happy you wont be dragging it out like other shows do.
Thanks for everything Eric.” After the drama was renewed for a fifth season last month, speculation began swirling that that would be it for the Emmy-winning series. Kripke had previously shared his desire for The Boys to last five seasons in order to finish the story.
He had told fans in 2020 that he had a “rough idea” of how he wanted to end the show. “But I also know better than to say how many seasons a show is gonna have,” he reasoned at the time. In the past, Kripke’s been critical o.
