Adam Soukup July 3rd, 2025 - 1:35 PM
The final season of The Boys has wrapped production, series creator Eric Kripke (Supernatural, Timeless) announced in an Instagram post obtained via Deadline Tuesday morning. The showrunner behind the satirical superhero drama posted an image of himself staring up at a mural of Antony Starr’s (Banshee, G20) Homelander, along with a heartfelt message to those that helped make the adaptation of the Dynamite Entertainment’s comic one of Prime Video’s most popular and lucrative original series.
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“This is the last time I’ll ever be on this set,” Kripke ponders in an attendant caption. “It’ll be torn down soon. It’s bittersweet, but my primary feeling is gratitude. We have the best cast, the best crew, the most fun story to write, and something that is impossible to predict: the right timing. You wait your whole career to have maybe two of those things, if you’re lucky. We got all of them. To #TheBoys family: thank you, I love you all. To the fans: thanks for watching, can’t wait for you to see the grand finale. That’s a wrap.”
Since the series premiered in 2019, Kripke has remained fairly confident that his vision for The Boys would last “roughly five seasons,” according to Deadline. Unlike Prime Video’s other most prominent comic book adaptation, Invincible, which adapts its source material directly, The Boys has used the 2006 original as only a loose framework for the events of its story. That creative freedom has given Kripke and his fellow writers the freedom to reinterpret some of the comic book’s more controversial aspects — including the ending.
If streaming numbers are any indication, Kripke and his team have been vastly successful. Season four of the show, which follows a group of human vigilantes that take up arms against a cabal of increasingly fascistic “superheroes”, broke multiple streaming records when it premiered last year, racking up more than 1.3 billion minutes of viewership within the span of a week, via Deadline.
While the main series is ending, though, fans of The Boys universe can look forward to multiple upcoming stories also set in the same universe, also reported via Deadline. The college-set spinoff Gen V will release its second season in September of this year, while at least two other spinoffs entitled Vought Rising and The Boys: Mexico are in active production. Season five of The Boys, meanwhile, will release at an unspecified date in 2026 on Prime Video.
