We live in an age where ending a series on a high note is far more difficult than it should be. Look at some of the biggest endings of the last ten or so years and you’ll find plenty of divisive finales that many still debate about today. Even ones that felt “foolproof” in what they had to do have floundered at times, and it has made many worry about other upcoming series finales. The Boys Season 5 will be the final run for the main show on Amazon Prime Video, and showrunner Eric Kripke knows that this final season must deliver.
Thankfully, in a chat with Entertainment Weekly, he’s promising that The Boys Season 5 will not just live up to the hype but will go all out because the team knows that this is the end:
“It’s just such a gift to know, as a filmmaker anyway, when your story’s ending because you know when to just blow the doors off it and completely change the world of the show,” he said. “You don’t have to maintain it because you’ve got six more seasons. You’ve got to squeeze out of it that it’s time to bring on the endgame. So, that’s what that finale was built to do.”
One thing that helps set the final season apart, here’s my Season 4 review if you haven’t read it, is that Homelander has “won,” and now the final season is taking him down for good:
“Instead of having a villain talk about a thing they’re going to do, which then our heroes stop from coming to pass, it’s just so fun that he really did it. He took over the country. It’s his country now. What does that look like in Season 5, and how do our characters fight against it? Which has led to a lot of fun in the writer’s room. I’m really excited with what we’re coming up with.”
We don’t have a release window for the final season yet, but let’s all hope that it delivers.
