'The Boys' to End With Season Five

Prime Video‘s The Boys series is finally coming to an end. Showrunner Eric Kripke has officially announced on X that the show is slated to end with season five. The announcement about the end of R-rated Prime superhero series was made ahead of the premiere of the fourth season.

Kripke posted to X with an accompanied screenshot of a redacted copy of the season four finale script, “#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!” The show originally premiered in 2019 and just last year, Kripke had announced that it would not end with season four.

The show’s plot is set in a place where superheroes run the world via mega corp Vought. The Boys follows the adventures and battles between the supes and the group of “boys,” also known as those whose lives were once ruined by other supes. The series features a star-studded cast that includes Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit and Cameron Crovetti.” Jeffrey Dean Morgan is slated to join season four. Take a look at Kripke’s post about the end of the series below.

#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! pic.twitter.com/3p7Wt4jGA6

— Eric Kripke (@therealKripke) June 11, 2024