With the fourth season of Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys coming to a close, when can fans expect to see season five? Read on for all the details.
The eighth and final episode of the fourth run, which has been named by NME as one of the best TV shows of 2024 so far, aired on the streaming platform last night (July 17)
The superhero series, adapted from the comic books written by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson and developed for the screen by Eric Kripke, follows the titular team of vigilantes as they combat superpowered enemies who abuse their powers.
Fans of the show have been speaking out after each episode, with the twists and disturbingly graphic scenes in the sixth instalment being labelled “fucking diabolical”, and the seventh being described as “uncomfortable” and “gruesome”.
In a four-star review of the new season, NME wrote: “With season five already confirmed, the return of a few familiar faces and a lot of characters confronting their pasts, this season sometimes feels like the set up for an eventual endgame scenario. Fans will note that spin-off show Gen V recently introduced a potentially supe-killing biological weapon. Luckily, all that plot never slows down the pace in what is another urgent edition of TV’s best superhero show.”
One of the show’s stars, Chace Crawford, meanwhile, recently said that a scene in which he had to simulate sex with an octopus almost gave him a panic attack.
When is The Boys season five coming out?
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It was confirmed last month by Kripke that the fifth season, which had already been commissioned, will bring the series to an end.
Writing on X, Kripke wrote: ““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.”
Kripke later told Variety that he expects season five to consist of eight episodes, with filming to take place from November 2024 to mid-2025.
No official release date has been confirmed for season five, but based on the turnover period for previous seasons, it is likely that the new episodes will begin to air in approximately summer 2026.
Ahead of that, season two of spinoff series Gen V is expected in the late months of 2025.