The Boys
Season 5
Promotional poster
Showrunner Eric Kripke
Starring
  • Karl Urban
  • Jack Quaid
  • Antony Starr
  • Erin Moriarty
  • Jessie T. Usher
  • Laz Alonso
  • Chace Crawford
  • Tomer Capone
  • Karen Fukuhara
  • Nathan Mitchell
  • Colby Minifie
  • Cameron Crovetti
  • Susan Heyward
  • Valorie Curry
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Jensen Ackles
  • Daveed Diggs
No. of episodes 2
Release
Original network Amazon Prime Video
Original release April 8, 2026 (2026-04-08) –
present
Season chronology
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List of episodes

The fifth and final season of the American satirical superhero television series The Boys, the first series in the franchise based on the comic book series of the same name written by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, was developed for television by Eric Kripke. The season was produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios in association with Point Grey Pictures, Original Film, Kripke Enterprises, Kickstart Entertainment, and KFL Nightsky Productions.

The season stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie, Cameron Crovetti, Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Jensen Ackles, all returning from prior seasons, joined by Daveed Diggs. In the season, the world is dominated by Homelander, and Annie January has formed a resistance to Homelander while the rest of the team is scattered. Billy Butcher reappears and gathers The Boys to take down Homelander, ready to use a virus capable of wiping out all of the Supes of the world.

The world premiere occurred on March 19, 2026, at Cinema Moderno in Rome, Italy. The season premiered on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video on April 8, 2026, with its first two episodes. The remaining six episodes will be released weekly until May 20.

Episodes

See also: List of The Boys episodes

Without any particular or given order, the titles of the remaining episodes include "Every One of You Sons of Bitches", "Though the Heavens Fall", "King of Hell", "The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk", and "Blood and Bone".[1]

No.
overall		 No. in
season		 Title Directed by Written by [2] Original release date [3]
33 1 "Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite" Phil Sgriccia Paul Grellong April 8, 2026 (2026-04-08)
A year after Homelander consolidated his power,[a] Annie January infiltrates a Vought shareholder meeting and leaks the Flight 37 video, damaging trust in Homelander. Sister Sage responds by discrediting the footage with help from Ashley Barrett, now Vice President of the United States, while Homelander forces Sage to reveal that Hughie Campbell, Mother's Milk, and Frenchie, who are imprisoned in a camp, are to be executed. Homelander stops their attempted escape and waits for Billy Butcher to come rescue them. Butcher then reunites with Annie and Kimiko to infiltrate the camp and save the boys, but A-Train refuses in order to protect his family. They gain an entry through a tunnel opened by a Supe named The Worm. Annie creates a distraction, allowing the group to scatter. M.M. kills Love Sausage in the midst. Homelander soon ambushes and nearly kills Hughie, but A-Train intervenes and saves him. The team escapes as A-Train is chased and ultimately killed by Homelander after belittling him.
34 2 "Teenage Kix" Shana Stein Jessica Chou April 8, 2026 (2026-04-08)
Butcher leads the team to a laboratory he runs with Dr. Sameer Shah, to whom he lied about Victoria Neuman's death. They plan to test the virus on Rock-Hard from Teenage Kix, having to do it in Teenage Kix's home. Meanwhile, Homelander awakens Soldier Boy from cryostasis and orders him to find Butcher in exchange for clearing his name. Hughie, Butcher, and Kimiko get the virus from the lab but encounter Soldier Boy on their way to Teenage Kix's home, forcing them to flee. Soldier Boy then allies himself with Teenage Kix members Jetstreak and Sheline. During a confrontation, Kimiko knocks Sheline unconscious while Soldier Boy and Jetstreak pursue Hughie to the base; there, Frenchie releases the virus, killing Jetstreak, Rock-Hard, and seemingly Soldier Boy. The back of Ashley's head, which gained consciousness after injecting herself with Compound V,[a] urges a rebellion against Homelander, but Ashley refuses. Frenchie urges Kimiko to leave because of the virus's lethality, but she refuses. As Vought scientists are carrying Soldier Boy's body away, he suddenly awakens.
35 3 TBA TBA Ellie Monahan April 15, 2026 (2026-04-15)
36 4 TBA TBA Geoff Aull April 22, 2026 (2026-04-22)
37 5 "One-Shots"[4] TBA Judalina Neira April 29, 2026 (2026-04-29)
38 6 TBA TBA David Reed May 6, 2026 (2026-05-06)
39 7 TBA TBA Anslem Richardson May 13, 2026 (2026-05-13)
40 8 TBA TBA Judalina Neira & David Reed May 20, 2026 (2026-05-20)

Cast and characters

Main article: List of The Boys characters

Main

  • Karl Urban as William "Billy" Butcher
  • Jack Quaid as Hugh "Hughie" Campbell Jr.
  • Antony Starr as John / Homelander
  • Erin Moriarty as Annie January / Starlight
  • Jessie T. Usher as Reggie Franklin / A-Train
  • Laz Alonso as Marvin T. "Mother's Milk" / M.M.
  • Chace Crawford as Kevin Kohler / The Deep
  • Tomer Capone as Serge / Frenchie
  • Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female
  • Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir II
  • Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett, Ashley Barrett's rear face
  • Cameron Crovetti as Ryan Butcher
  • Susan Heyward as Jessica "Sage" Bradley / Sister Sage
  • Valorie Curry as Misty Tucker Gray / Firecracker
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Joe Kessler
  • Daveed Diggs as Oh Father[5]

Recurring

  • David Andrews as President Steve Calhoun
  • Rosemarie DeWitt as Daphne Campbell
  • Jensen Ackles as Ben / Soldier Boy

Guest

  • Ely Henry as The Worm[6]
  • John Noble as Sam Butcher[7]
  • Dylan Colton as Jetstreak[6]
  • Emma Elle Paterson as Sheline[6]
  • Jessica B. Hill as Ivi[7]
  • Derek Johns as Love Sausage[7]
  • Ess Hödlmoser as Cindy[7]
  • Omid Abtahi as Dr. Sameer Shah[8]
  • Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Countess Crow[6]
  • Andrew Iles as Rock-Hard
  • Mason Dye as Bombsight[9]
  • Jared Padalecki[10]
  • Misha Collins[10]
  • Seth Rogen[11]

Confirmed

  • Paul Reiser as The Legend[12]
  • London Thor as Jordan Li[11]
  • Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau[13]
  • Lizze Broadway as Emma Meyer / Little Cricket[13]
  • Maddie Phillips as Cate Dunlap[13]
  • Asa Germann as Samuel "Sam" Riordan[13]
  • Keeya King as Annabeth Moreau[13]
  • Giancarlo Esposito as Stan Edgar
  • Olivia Morandin as Zoe Neuman

Production

Development

On May 14, 2024, Amazon Prime Video renewed the series for a fifth season.[14] On June 11, 2024, two days before season four premiered, showrunner Eric Kripke announced that the fifth season would serve as the final season.[15] Kripke revealed the news on Twitter, tweeting: "#TheBoys Season 4 Premiere Week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the Final Season! ... Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax."[16][better source needed] Following the season four finale's release, Kripke confirmed that he's "been planning five years all along, because there's no way a show goes one more season after the events of that finale" and that the final season will be the "show's version of the apocalypse".[17] Vernon Sanders, one of Amazon MGM Studios' top executives, stated that the fifth season of The Boys was always planned as the series' final, explaining: "We've had this incredible success because of [Kripke's] vision and execution and he's told us for a while that he believes this really should be a five-season series."[18] Kripke also said: "I always look at it as of the five seasons, we're kind of at that point, that's sort of the end of the second act of a movie where everyone's really at their low point, and they've all faced their own personal demons. Now, [The Boys] need to really come together in the fifth season and save the world."[17]

Additionally, Kripke told Deadline Hollywood that he has an ending in mind and how to get there in broad strokes, stating: "I know that moment where the title card comes up and it says six months later, and you see where everybody is. I know that. I can really write the last ten pages of this story right now."[19] In a subsequent interview with Variety, Kripke said: "We have a whole season to write. I have a lot of work to do to push it all off. But when we're up there shooting and when we really wrap for that last time, that's gonna be a mess."[20]

The fifth and final season will mark the return of Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy in a series regular role.[21]

Teasing the return of Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, Kripke said: "This won't be the last we see of him."[22] Following the official confirmation of his return at San Diego Comic-Con on July 26, 2024, Kripke stated: "He's going to be in Season 5 quite a lot. We want him to be a big character. There's a lot of good father-son emotion between him and Homelander that we never really got a chance to play that we're really interested in."[20]

Kripke also hinted at the direction of the final season, stating: "The cast and crew are deeply grateful to Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios for the opportunity to tell this story for another season. My only problem is that since this year promises to be free of any conflict or misinformation, we're not sure what to write about."[14] At the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, Kripke teased at what's to come, telling The Hollywood Reporter: "It's a whole new world and [The Boys] have a big job ahead of them. And, so, it's gonna be really, like, epic."[23][better source needed]

In an interview with GamesRadar+ at SDCC 2024, Kripke teased the "super big, apocalyptic" fifth and final season, hinting "there will probably be lots of death", stating: "That's the fun of the final season. You can blow the doors off it. There's no guarantee who's going to survive because you don't have to keep [the cast] for another season. So you can have really shocking, big things happen all the time. The writers, as we're starting to cook it up, we're really enjoying that." Kripke admitted, though, that "so many series finale [sic] suck. It's really hard to land the plane", adding: "I am very grateful to Amazon for giving me the opportunity to end it on our own terms but, for sure, I feel lots and lots of pressure to end it well. Because I think if we can stick the landing then people will be like, 'That was a great show.' But if we shit the bed, people will say: 'It was a good show, but then it shit the bed.' For the legacy of the show, I really want to land the plane. It's hard to land the plane! I feel an incredible amount of pressure."[24][25][26] Furthermore, he told TV Guide that "anyone who dies in season five will richly deserve it ... you get to go out on your own terms, so not everyone's making it through",[27] stating for Deadline Hollywood that "there will probably be lots of deaths" and that "there's no guarantee of who's gonna survive."[28]

The fifth and final is set about 6 months after the second season of Gen V,[29] and incorporated elements from the series that set up the story that unfold in the season.[30]

Writing

Following the announcement that the fifth season will be the conclusion of the series, Kripke told Entertainment Weekly: "I'm excited to finally execute a 5-season plan", referencing how he had a five-season plan for his previous series, Supernatural, before it then continued on for an additional ten seasons without his involvement as showrunner. "That's very exciting for me." As for his reasoning, Kripke said: "Part of it is such a wonky stupid screenwriter thing but three and five are the big magical numbers for writing. Three is movie acts, TV acts are five. Jokes are a runner of three for five. Five just seems like a good round number. It's enough to tell the story but also bring it to a climax without wearing out its welcome. It's been hard because I haven't been able to tell everyone. I was thrilled to finally be able to get the word out there." He concluded by referencing the previous season's ending feeling very much like the penultimate season, stating: "That was part of my argument: No one can watch [season 4] without feeling at the end like 'It's ending next year right?' So we might as well announce it so people can watch it with that cool epic heading-toward-the-end feeling, which is what I'm hoping for."[31] Kripke, speaking with Collider, gave a preview of what Homelander's character will be like in the season: "If you give him truly unfettered power with all his insecurities and traumas, this is a version of what he would do. But so goes many fascists who are weak and thin-skinned and ultimately driven by ego, despite how much they front as heroes."[32] Regarding the series finale, star Colby Minifie reveals that she has already read the ending and that it is "an extremely satisfying finale...I was getting emotional reading it."[33] Karl Urban stated that this season "the stakes couldn't be higher," and that from the very first episode we would see characters die, making viewers think that no one is safe and that "this shit is for real."[34]

Kripke discussed the season's political storyline, revealing that the season was written before the 2024 United States presidential election. He mentioned that they wanted to "write a 1984 version of what creeping authoritarianism looks like in America," but that certain plot points have already occurred in real life. He also mentioned a line Homelander says in episode 7, which he described as "the craziest line" the writers could imagine, that has also happened in real life.[35]

Casting

Following months of speculation and discussion, Jared Padalecki, former co-lead of Eric Kripke's previous series, Supernatural, will appear in the fifth and final season in an undisclosed role.[36]

On July 26, 2024, it was announced that Ackles will return as a series regular.[21] Elaborating on his reasons for bringing back Ackles as Soldier Boy, Kripke said: "What we realized was we really hadn't explored the father-son relationship much between Homelander and Soldier Boy. There's a lot of material there, how Soldier Boy feels about Homelander, how Homelander feels about his dad, and so we really wanted to dig into that relationship." He also revealed that "Soldier Boy is really driven to kill Butcher after Butcher betrayed him in Season 3. So he's just an excellent antagonist, to switch sides and basically, you know, to be with the Supes. We were just really excited to bring him out. And, you know, Jensen, despite his tragic ugliness you know, we thought we should give him a shot."[37]

Jared Padalecki, who previously starred in Supernatural, which was also created by Kripke, joined the cast. Kripke expressed interest in casting Padalecki, stating: "I feel like I have to complete my game of Supernatural Pokémon."[38] Padalecki responded to this, stating: "Well, I'll say this: Kripke and I texted today. It's not been written yet, but I think he was saying [the final season] doesn't even film until 2025. So yeah, I'm going to go play in Kripke's newest playground. I had a great time the first time around, so I'm sure I'll have a great time here again. I love the show. I think it's hilarious and exciting. But you were asking what my plans for the future were — and I love Jensen and Eric Kripke. Obviously, I'll be indebted to [Kripke] and entangled with him forever. I met my wife because of him. I was Sam Winchester because of him. Supernatural happened because of him. So working with him on a show that I enjoy, I'm like, 'Yeah, when do I fly out?' But I don't think we would film until at least January."[39] In July 2024, Kripke told Variety: "I have been talking to Jared, we've been texting back and forth. I don't know yet if it'll be a one-episode guest spot or something bigger. We're still trying to figure out what would be the best role for him. But I'm gonna bring in Jared. Everyone says, you're collecting your Supernatural Pokémon, but the truth is, I love him and you try to work with people that you love and it makes the job more fun. And I just love those guys."[20] In February 2025, Padalecki's casting alongside Misha Collins in guest roles was made official.[10] Collins revealed that there would be several cameos from Supernatural actors in addition to his and Padalecki's.[40]

On September 2024, it was announced that Daveed Diggs had been cast in a main role for the season,[41] that in March 2026 was revealed to be Oh-Father.[5] In October 2024, it was announced that Mason Dye would appear in the season in a guest role as Bombsight.[9] In July 2025, at San Diego Comic-Con, Seth Rogen's guest appearance was revealed.[11] London Thor, Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, Asa Germann and Keeya King reprise their Gen V roles as Jordan Li, Marie Moreau, Emma Meyer / Little Cricket, Cate Dunlap, Samuel "Sam" Riordan and Annabeth Moreau respectively.[11][13] In April 2026, Ely Henry was cast as the Supe The Worm, while Dylan Colton, Emma Elle Paterson and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan were cast as Jetstreak, Sheline and Countess Crow, respectively, from the Supe group Teenage Kix.[6]

Filming

Principal photography began on November 25, 2024.[42] and is expected to last from mid-November 2024 to "well into the middle of 2025.[43][44][45] At the end of March 2025, Eric Kripke revealed that filming was already halfway done.[46] Jensen Ackles finished filming on June 10, 2025.[47] Filming wrapped on July 1, 2025.[48]

Marketing

On July 18, 2024, a series of key art posters were released on Instagram.[49][50] On July 26, 2024, Eric Kripke and a majority of the cast went to San Diego Comic-Con to tease and discuss the upcoming season.[51] On August 27, 2024, the social media accounts of Vought International gave an update on the status of A-Train (Usher)'s whereabouts, posting: "Vought can confirm A-Train is being deployed overseas effective immediately. We have to keep all details confidential, both for his safety and the safety of the free world. Let's wish him good luck and especially, God speed!"[52]

Footage from the season was shown on San Diego Comic-Con on July 2025.[11] Part of the cast and producer Kripke attended CCXP Brazil 2025 to promote the season on December 6.[53]

Release

The world premiere occurred on March 19, 2026, at Cinema Moderno in Rome, Italy.[54] The season premiered on April 8, 2026 with its two first episodes, while remaining episodes will be released on a weekly basis up until the season finale on May 20.[3]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 98% of 40 critic reviews are positive for the season. The website's critical consensus reads: "The Boys stays true to its form and completes its mission with ample panache, narrative pay-off, and an excess of blood and guts to deviously glorious effect."[55]

Notes

  1. ^ a b As depicted in the fourth season finale "Season Four Finale" (2024).

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