Eric Kripke is doing what he does best: telling us we can pick and choose with shows within The Boys universe we watch, despite the increasing connectivity between them all.
In an new interview with Variety, the showrunner teased that The Boys season 5 will be peppered with "references to Vought Rising", the 1950s-set series that'll center on The Boys baddies Stormfront (Aya Cash) and Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles). So much so, in fact, that it'll explicitly introduce another character due to appear in the prequel – though he insists the fifth and final season won't wind up being "mandatory viewing".
