The Boys season 5 will be its final season as creator admits that was “always my plan”
- Creator Eric Kripke has announced that The Boys will end after its fifth season, despite previous plans for five seasons of the show.
It's official: The Boys is coming to an end after its fifth season.
Just days before the premiere of The Boys season 4 on Prime Video, creator Eric Kripke took to Twitter to announce plans for the show's endgame.
"#TheBoys Season 4 Premiere Week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the Final Season!" Kripke wrote , alongside a redacted image of the fourth season's finale script. "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!"
In recent weeks, Kripke has been non-committal over putting a season count on The Boys – despite previously outlining plans for five seasons of the Amazon series.
"I am – without hyperbole – literally the worst person in history at predicting how long their show should go," Kripke told SFX magazine . "No one in the entire history of the entertainment business has been more wrong than me, giving interview after interview on how I thought Supernatural should end after five years [the series went on for 15 seasons]."
Now, that seems, it was all a little bit of a Vought-style PR spin. The Boys will end after its fifth season, but no release window has yet been revealed.
That's not to say The Boys universe is coming to a close. Far from it. Gen V season 2 will continue the college-set spin-off, though Eric Kripke has revealed how it will deal with actor Chance Perdomo's death .
For more, check out The Boys season 4 release schedule .
