THE BOYS Wraps Filming on Final Season as Eric Kripke Shares Emotional Set Photo and Teases the End
Filming has wrapped on the fifth and final season of The Boys, and showrunner Eric Kripke is already feeling the weight of goodbye. To mark the occasion, Kripke posted a behind the scenes photo from the Vought Tower set, specifically The Seven’s iconic Action Room, with a mural of Homelander looming overhead.
“This is the last time I'll ever be on this set,” Kripke wrote. “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 #TheBoys family: 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 end of Season 4 left things in a pressure cooker. Homelander, the patriotic psychopath, got disturbingly close to the White House while launching a campaign to imprison anyone protesting the Supes. Meanwhile, Hughie, MM, Frenchie, and Kimiko were captured. Starlight’s on the run, and Butcher's gone full Butcher.
Kripke has already hinted that the body count could be brutal. “There will probably be lots of deaths,” he said. “There’s no guarantee of who’s gonna survive.”
Nathan Mitchell (Black Noir 2.0) ominously added: “There are some things that are coming in Season 5 that you’re not going to have in your bingo card.”
Antony Starr (Homelander) likened the show’s pacing to an accordion: “One piece of the accordion is going out and then this is the compression going back in. There was a lot of setup in Season 4 for Season 5. Everything is gunning towards that climactic end.”
Spoilers ahead!
While comic book readers know that things get very dark in Garth Ennis’ original story with Butcher turning on his own and nearly wiping out everyone but Hughie, the show has never been a 1:1 adaptation.
That said, it’s safe to assume Homelander and Butcher are barreling toward mutually assured destruction… maybe with a touch of redemption before the curtain falls.
So here we are. The final season is locked. The cast has said their goodbyes, and all that’s left is for the fans to buckle in and prepare for whatever explosive, nihilistic, and hopefully satisfying finale Kripke and company have cooked up.