LOS ANGELES — All good things must come to an end.
The fifth and final season of “The Boys” hits Prime Video on April 8 with the first two episodes, followed by weekly episodes leading up to the epic series finale on May 20.
This final season, Hughie, Mother’s Milk and Frenchie find themselves imprisoned in a “Freedom Camp” in Homelander’s world as Annie struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. When Butcher reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, a chain of events begins that will forever change the world and everyone in it.
“It’s crazy,” Antony Starr (Homelander) told Spectrum News about the final season. “I think it is a very great finish to a show that we have all loved being a part of.”
Eric Kripke, who is the executive producer and showrunner, told Spectrum News they jokingly sometimes refer the writer’s room for “The Boys” as Satan’s writer’s room because of the parallels between what happens on the show and what happens in real life.
“We are always writing about what is infuriating us or frustrating us or scaring us at that time. That bull[explicit] is the same bull[explicit] two years later,” he said. “It’s not so much that we are seeing the future, it’s that people forget that things really don’t change.”
Kripke said that in a world that only seems to get crazier, it has become more challenging to write satire.
“When the world is crazier than your subject matter, it’s harder to find the humor,” he said.
Antony Starr (Homelander). (Image courtesy of Prime Video/Jasper Savage)
But as the saying goes, there is always hope. And Jack Quaid, who plays Hughie, told Spectrum News we all have a superpower to fight off the “Homelanders” of the world.
“The real secret message of the show is that anyone who tells you ‘I have all the answers,’ ‘I can solve all your problems,’ they are lying to you,” he said. “Real heroism is normal everyday people doing little things here and there to help each other out, and hopefully that trickles up in a way. No one is coming to save you. We need to save ourselves. It’s not glamours but the little things, when they add up, can go a long way.”
“The Boys” is based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, who also serve as executive producers, and developed by executive producer and showrunner Eric Kripke.
Click the video above to watch the full interview with Starr, Quaid, Karl Urban, Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Jessie T. Usher, Nathan Mitchell, Valorie Curry and Kripke.