One of Prime Video’s biggest original series,The Boys, just recently wrapped filming its fifth and final season. Ahead of the Season 4 premiere of the show in 2024, showrunner Eric Kripke took to social media to announce that the series had already been renewed for Season 5, and that it would also be its last. The news lingered in the back of viewers' minds throughout Season 4, its ending helping to set up what will most assuredly be a gory and action-packed climax. Now, Kripke has shared another update, posting a heartfelt goodbye from set to announce that filming has wrapped.
In a post on X (which can be viewed below), Kripke shared an emotional goodbye, uploading a photo of himself on the set ofThe Boyswhile also stating that this would be “the last time” he would be on that specific set. The showrunner was sure to thank fans for their support of the series and expressed his excitement for everyone to see what he described as “the grand finale.” The set is of The Seven’s meeting room in Vought Tower, featuring a mural ofHomelander (Antony Starr)on the ceiling, which provided the showrunner with the opportunity for a poetic final photo on set, taken by Karen Fukuhara, who plays Kimiko Miyashiro in the series.
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Now that filming has wrapped,The BoysSeason 5 will now enter post-production, meaning the show is well on its way to meeting its 2026 release date. Season 4 of the series ended on an intense note, with Butcher driving off alone and the rest of The Boys being ambushed and captured. With Homelander in a bigger position of power than ever before,The BoysSeason 5 is shaping up to have the highest stakes in the series yet.
Previous Seasons of ‘The Boys’ Have Experienced Numerous Delays
Interestingly, Season 5 ofThe Boyshas been the first one since the second seson that hasn’t experienced significant delays of any kind (thus far). Following the release of Season 1 in 2019 and Season 2 in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the release of Season 3, much like many other film and television projects at the time. Moreover, following the delayed release of the third season,The BoysSeason 4 was put on hold due to the Writers Guild of America strike. Despite all these obstacles, the team behind the series has managed to deliver a consistently great television series that has received mostly positive reviews.
The Boyshas been incredibly successful, not only managing to release five seasons but also having two different spinoff series: the animated anthology showDiabolicaland the live-action seriesGen V, whose first season takes place before the fourth season ofThe Boys. With asecond season ofGen Von the way, it will be interesting to see how it will connect to the upcoming final season of the original series that started it all.
All that remains to be seen is whether Kripke and the rest of the team can deliver a satisfying conclusion to the series. The original comic of the same name, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, which the series is inspired by, is filled with controversial moments and features a shocking, depressing conclusion for the characters. The series has already deviated from the source material numerous times, meaning that the ending ofThe BoysSeason 5 will likely feature a different conclusion from the original material.
