The Boys has been able to subvert the superhero genre and has given an interesting spin to it. The series mixed satire with the popular genre and presented a world that hadn’t been shown before. This has resulted in it becoming a major success and currently Season 4 is airing.
Right when the fourth season started, fans of the show had been wondering about the future of The Boys Season 5. There are speculations and excitement around it and whether it is happening or not. So continue reading as we answer it.
What Is The Boys All About?
Eric Kripke is the developer and showrunner of The Boys which is based on the eponymous comic book series which was created by Darick Robertson and Garth Ennis. It is about a team of vigilantes who are against a bunch of superheroes who have been abusing their powers. Unlike most superhero content, The Boys actually shows superheroes being bad and using their powers as it suits them.
The executive producers of the show include Kripke, Dan Trachtenberg, Phil Sgriccia, Seth Rogen, Neal H. Moritz, Rebecca Sonnenshine and Darick Robertson among others. The series premiered on July 26th, 2019 on Amazon Prime Video and had eight episodes.
The Boys Season 4 has started on June 13th, 2024. The success of the series has also resulted in two spin-offs, The Boys Presents: Diabolical and Gen-V.
Is The Boys Season 5 Happening?
Before the fourth season premiered, Eric Kripke had revealed that The Boys Season 5 will be happening. However, there is bad news associated with it. Kripke stated that it will be the last season and will conclude the story of the morally corrupt superheroes.
This means that the fourth season has already started the groundwork for the final season as all the subplots and the main plot will reach their conclusion. Fans are saddened by this news but the storyline had to end at some point.
What To Expect From It?
The plot of The Boys Season 5 will depend a lot on the ending of the fourth season. Currently, three episodes of Season 4 have premiered and five are still left to air. Its finale will drop on July 18th, 2024. But we can make a few speculations about the final season.
The Boys will continue their effort to bring down Vought along with Homelander (played by Antony Starr). Billy The Butcher (Karl Urban) has been in touch with Victoria Neuman (played by Claudia Doumit) on a potential thing that could actually kill Homelander.
We can either expect Victoria to die by the end of this season or if she survives, this plan might actually become successful. There are also individual conflicts of all the characters which we can expect to be resolved since it is the final season.
The viewers are also anticipating major fight scenes between Homelander and his team with others since it’s gonna be the end of the show.
Who Will Be In The Cast?
The Boys Season 5 will have the main cast of the show returning for a final time.
This will include Karl Urban portraying Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell), Antony Starr (Homelander), Erin Moriarty (Annie January aka Starlight), Jessie T. Usher (Reggie Franklin aka A-Train), Laz Alonso (Marvin T), Chace Crawford (Kevin Moskowitz), Tomer Capone (Serge aka Frenchie), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko Miyashiro), Nathan Mitchell (Earving), Claudia Doumit (Victoria Neuman aka Nadia Khayat), Susan Heyward (Sister Sage) and Valorie Curry (Firecracker).
The Boys Season 5 might also have some important characters shown in flashbacks since the show will be concluding with this season.
There is no release date confirmation but we can guess that The Boys Season 5 might drop sometime in 2026.
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Conclusion
The Boys has a strong fan following and people have been loving the way it molds the popular tropes of the superhero genre. Currently, people are watching the fourth season and The Boys Season 5 will be the final season of this show.
We can expect a lot of action and thrills from this season as the eponymous set of vigilantes will try their best to kill Homelander and shut down Vought. But they will face many challenges in doing so.