• The fifth season will be the last
  • Expected Summer 2026
  • Episode one is titled Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite
The Boys is set for a fifth and finale season in 2026
The Boys is set for a fifth and finale season in 2026 Credit: Imago

A fifth and final series of satirical superhero series The Boys is on its way. Amazon Prime Video renewed the show in May 2024, a month before the premiere of season four.

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Showrunner Eric Kripke took to X shortly before season four went to air, promising “to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax” in the fifth instalment.

With the season four finale airing in July 2024, fans are eagerly anticipating what comes next. Pivotal events set the stage for an intense and climactic final season – especially after a post-credits scene revealed that Soldier Boy is still alive.

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Season five is in the early stages of development, but there are already some clues as to what we can expect. Here’s everything we know so far.

When will The Boys season 5 be released?

Kripke hinted that production on season five would take at least two years before hitting screens, which could mean a release date in the Summer of 2026.

He told Deadline in an interview, “Usually from about when you start the writers room, and we started like about a month ago, five weeks ago, to when generally you hit the air, it’s about two years and change. I know where I want it to end up, but we spent the first probably four weeks of the room just talking about like overall mythology and where we want the story to go”.

Karl Urban, who plays Billy Butcher in the show, has posted some bloody behind the scenes photos to his Instagram with the caption “See you in …2 years (wish it was sooner) for the final season on @primevideo”. The timeline seems to add up with the speculated 2026 release.

Who’s in it?

The show’s fifth and final season is set to star the main cast of 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 and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Both David Andrews and Rosemarie DeWitt will also star in their recurring roles.

It was announced at Comic Con on 26 July 2024, that Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy will return in season five.

Stranger Things actor Mason Dye has been cast with a guest role as superhero Bombsight. Daveed Diggs has also been cast, but details on his role are still under wraps.

Jared Padalecki is joining for the final season, marking a reunion with Kripke, who also worked with Padalecki on Supernatural.

Paul Reiser, who appears as The Legend in season three of The Boys, is set to reprise the role. 

Vice President-elect Victoria Neuman (played by Claudia Doumit) met her death at the hands of Butcher’s alter-ego in the season finale, so it’s likely she won’t be back.

What will the plot be in The Boys season five?

With America under control from Homelander and the nation facing a dystopian reality, it’s up to the The Boys to regroup and dismantle the authoritarian regime.

Speaking to LadBible, Kripke said how he always knew it would culminate in a fifth season.“You know, I think the finale of season four really shows you that we’ve been planning five years all along, because there’s no way a show goes one more season after the events of that finale. As far as we’re concerned, it’s our show’s version of the apocalypse.”

Kripke teased the title of the episode one from season five in a post on X. It is titled ‘Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite’ and is written by Paul Grellong, who has been an executive producer on the show since season three. 

Elements from the second season of the The Boys spinoff series Gen V, scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in 2025, are also expected to be incorporated in the final season. 

The Boys also has two other spin-off shows announced. Vought Rising is a prequel series set in the 1950’s which will follow Soldier Boy and Stormfront, and The Boys: Mexico is in the works. The latter is reportedly being executive-produced by Andor star Diego Luna and Cassandro and Coco star Gael García Bernal.

Kripke told Deadline his involvement in the spin-offs will be limited, saying “For those shows, I won’t be the day-to-day showrunner. “I’ll give notes on scripts, and help them break story when they need me, but not the 24/7 in the grind.”

If you haven’t caught season four of The Boys yet, here’s the trailer to whet your appetite.

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