The showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed the news, ahead of the Prime Video show, named after the team of misfits trying to bring down people with superhuman abilities who use their powers in amoral ways, returning this month. In an Instagram post, he wrote: “The Boys season four 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 four in two days, cause the end has begun!” In the satirical comedy drama, Vought International is the shadowy scientific and public relations company that manages the superheroes globally, often using them to sell products or do covert missions that endanger the lives of the public. Kripke, who also created horror series Supernatural, shared his post along with a script, which looked like it is from the season four finale. It is mostly redacted except the words and phrases, “We fade in one”, “night” and “blackout”.
The show stars New Zealand actor and Star Trek film series star Karl Urban as the foul-mouthed and rude leader of the vigilante team the Boys, Billy Butcher, and Oppenheimer actor Jack Quaid as the hopeful and compassionate Hughie Campbell, who at first is reluctant to be part of the operation. Hughie later dates the superhero Starlight, real name Annie January (Erin Moriarty), as Billy tries to bring down the megalomaniacal and all-powerful John Gillma.
