showrunner confirmed that the satirical superhero series will come to an end after season 5. “#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,” Kripke, 50, wrote via on Tuesday, June 11, referencing Vought International, the fictional corporation that manages superheroes in . He continued, “Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.
Watch Season 4 in 2 DAYS, cause the end has begun!” Kripke also shared a photo of the final page of the script for the season 4 finale. While he blacked out most of the text, a note at the bottom of the page reads, “See you for our final season, motherf—kers!” While Kripke is content with wrapping up after season 5, he admitted during a Tuesday interview with that Prime Video “lovingly” tried to talk him out of the decision. “There was no like, ‘You have to keep this show going.
’ It was more of, like, a friendly and respectful like, ‘Are you Season 5 is the last season? Are you you don’t want to do more?’” he explained. “But we were already, like, barreling towards this. The truth is we knew that it was going to be a five-season story for years now.
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Honestly, they’ve been great about letting us end it on our own terms. I’m really grateful.” Season 4 of premieres on Prime Video Thursday, June 13.
The series, which initially premiered in 2019, is based on the comic book .
