The Boys‘ fifth and final season has officially finished filming, and the cast and crew are going through it.
Series creator and showrunner Eric Kripke, as well as stars Erin Moriarty, Jack Quaid, and Karen Fukuhara, are some of the team members sharing their heartfelt goodbyes to their R-rated show that became a hit by skewering superheroes (often literally).
“Honestly, f— ‘don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.’ The tears have begun. The posts are incoming,” Moriarty, who plays Starlight, wrote on Instagram Wednesday. “I said goodbye to most of my work family today and I’ll be ready to smile about it when I’m ready to smile about it. To my Boys fam: love you, c*nts. Forever.”
Kripke shared a photo of himself (shot by Fukuhara) standing on the set of the Seven’s headquarters in Vought Tower.
“This is the last time I’ll ever be on this set,” he captioned the image. “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 his “family” on The Boys, Kripke wrote, “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.”
The Boys penultimate season left the world on fire. In yet another too-close-to-home, art-imitating-life storyline, Homelander (Antony Starr) staged a coup and took over the United States government, reshaping the entire country as its de facto star-spangled dictator. The supe-fighting Boys went on the run, but nearly all of them got snatched by Homelander’s personal supe army — with the exception of Starlight and Karl Urban‘s Butcher.
Season 5 will likely premiere in 2026, although fans will get season 2 of college-set spinoff Gen V on Amazon’s Prime Video starting this September.
“Five seasons covered in blood & I wouldn’t change it for the world,” Quaid, the man behind “Wee” Hughie Campbell, wrote next to an images of him doused in red. “Words truly can’t express how much this show means to me, but the only word that comes relatively close is ‘family.'”
He continues, “This show, this incredible cast and crew are my family. I love them with all my heart and the only thing keeping me relatively sane right now is the knowledge that they’re all f—ing stuck with me for life. I’ll have a lot more to say down the road, but I’ll leave you with this: I can’t wait for you to see this amazing final season. Everyone truly crushed it. Thank you for watching. We’ll see you soon.”
“I am notoriously bad at posting photos on time, and the fact that we’re wrapping filming this week makes me spiral about the photos from LAST SEASON I never ended up posting,” Fukuhara, who plays Kimiko, wrote in an Instagram post, featuring her onscreen cohort, Tomer Capone. “So bear with me here with this post & the next. I know it’s confusing as f but I’m treating Instagram like a yearbook at this point and I need to get it in chronological order at the very least.”
Stephan Fleet, a VFX supervisor on The Boys, also shared behind-the-scenes photos from season 1, while folks like Capone (Frenchie), Chace Crawford (the Deep), and Laz Alonso (MM) reposted images on their Instagram Stories.
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We don’t know much about the actual story of season 5, but we do know there will be a big Supernatural reunion. Jensen Ackles will reprise his role as Soldier Boy, Homelander’s dad, alongside his chums Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins. The trio are confirmed to share scenes together.
Hamilton and The Little Mermaid star Daveed Diggs will also play an undisclosed role, and actor Mason Dye joined in the guest role of supe Bombsight.
Season 4, Kripke previously told Entertainment Weekly, trigged “the endgame.”
“Instead of having a villain talk about a thing they’re going to do, which then our heroes stop from coming to pass, it’s just so fun that he really did it,” he said. “He took over the country. It’s his country now. What does that look like in season 5, and how do our characters fight against it? Which has led to a lot of fun in the writer’s room. I’m really excited with what we’re coming up with.”
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