The Boys creator Eric Kripke says there won't be any epic Avengers: Endgame-style battles in the fifth and final season because they just don't have the budget.
"It's just a totally transformed world. It’s Homelander’s world and, unfortunately, we’re all living in it," Kripke says in the latest issue of SFX. "Starlight is mounting a desperate resistance, but The Boys are scattered. Frenchie, Mother’s Milk, and Hughie have been captured. We talked a lot about the French Resistance and prison camp breaks. We were really working our way through that kind of season. I mean, there are not full battle scenes because we still don’t have Game of Thrones' budget, but there are a lot of very direct confrontations; a lot of the people that you want to see smashing into each other smash into each other. I hope it’s cathartic and emotionally satisfying, but I’m a tiny bit terrified."
It's kind of wild to think that The Boys doesn't have a big enough budget, as it's been one of Prime Video's most popular original shows since its July 2019 premiere. The satirical action drama-comedy, based on the comic book series of the same name, not only has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score for all four seasons (and won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama in 2021)... but amassed somewhere around 1 billion streaming minutes for the first four episodes of its fourth season.
Though season 5 will be the show's last, we can still look forward to prequel series Vought Rising, starring Soldier Boy and Stormfront, and there may still be Gen V season 3 to look forward to (as we haven't gotten a cancellation confirmation just yet).
The Boys season 5 premieres on April 8. For more, check out our picks of the best shows on Prime Video, and keep up with new TV shows heading your way.
