The Boys season five is going to be an explosive ending to a winding and wild ride of a story. Season four left things in a major lurch with the Boys collective broken, Homelander once again having way too much power, and the United States in chaos. What will go down in this final round? Can the Boys team ever forgive Butcher for his betrayal and heinous acts?
The end of season four did give us a small hint into at least one storyline. We saw Homelander standing over Soldier Boy, who was being kept in stasis in an undisclosed location. In a recent interview with Variety, Eric Krikpe and actor Antony Starr teased that Soldier Boy and Homelander’s contentious relationship will be a big part of The Boys season five and spoke more on what to expect next.
“The more Homelander gets what he wants, the less happy he is. And that really frustrates him,” Kripke said. “You can expect a real ratcheting up of stakes and emotion, and ‘The Boys’ really have their work cut out for them.”
“There’s this intergenerational damage that gets dealt with,” Starr says about his Homelander character and Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy. “That’s a really important thing that we look at those relationships and we built those relationships from a very deep internal perspective.”
Here’s everything we know about The Boys season five.
The Boys Season Five’s Plot
Right now, there’s no information about the show’s plot. But showrunner Eric Kripke promises that there will probably be “lots of deaths” and that he does have an ending already in mind. That makes sense considering that he’s been saying he had a five season arc in mind for a few years. Here’s what he told SlashFilm:
I’d say we’re squarely in the middle. Every season we know that we want Homelander to get a little more disconnected from reality, and we want Butcher to get a little scarier. The show is, at the end of the day, about these two forces charging towards each other, between Butcher and Homelander. I know that them finally smashing into each other, once and for all, will be a big part of whatever end game we come up with. But beyond that, and beyond knowing where I want Hughie, it’s like I know where I want a lot of the characters to end up. That’s what I would say. I actually don’t even necessarily know the climax of the show, as much as I know that 10 pages that happens at the end, when they say six months later, and you see where everyone is. I know where everyone is. Then my job, as whenever we get to it, my job is to just make sure we can back into that.
Kripke shared the title of the first episode of The Boys season five, which is “Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite.” We don’t know what that means but the thought of fifteen inches of anything in this show is not one we want to entertain.
Behind the Scenes
Of course, Eric Kripke will continue to steer The Boys ship as its showrunner. It remains to be seen who will step in as directors for the episodes. We can assume the writing staff will return for the fifth and final season.
We will see what happens but in the meantime, we can celebrate the fact that The Boys season five is officially starting production. Laz Alonso, who plays MM, shared a cast photo on his IG that said the crew is back again. The tag suggests that filming is taking place in Toronto.
The Boys Season Five’s Cast
All the usual suspects should be coming back, including the Boys collective with Karl Urban (Butcher), Laz Alonso (MM), Tomer Capone (Frenchie), Erin Moriarty (Annie/Starlight), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko), and Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell). Jeffrey Dean Morgan will surely reprise his role as Joe Kessler too. For the supes, Antony Starr (Homelander), Valorie Curry (Firecracker), Susan Heyward (Sister Sage), and Chace Crawford (The Deep) will certainly be there. And, sorry to be spoilery, but Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy will be a The Boys season five regular.
We will see if others like Jessie T. Usher (A-Train), Colby Minifie (Ashley Barrett), and Giancarlo Esposito (Stan Edgar) will come back as well considering their rather ambiguous endings in season four.
There’s a familiar face joining the crowd. According to Deadline, The Boys season five is adding Stranger Things star Mason Dye, who played the mean and ill-fated jock Jason Carver in season four, to its cast as a supe named Bombsight. We already know he can play a jerk well, so he should fit right in with Homelander’s crew.
He was mentioned briefly in the series before and is one of the oldest supes to exist. There’s also word that Dye’s Bombsight will be in The Boys prequel Vought Rising as a main character. Interesting.
The Boys announced on its social media pages that Daveed Diggs would be a part of the season five cast. That’s all the show is giving us for now but we are already intrigued.
The Boys Season Five’s Release Date
There is currently not a release date for The Boys season five. The show is expected to start filming in late 2024 through mid-2025, so it is likely that we won’t see new episodes until 2026.
Originally published September 24, 2024.
