Eric Kripke Is “Bummed” ‘The Boys’ Final Season Was Written Before 2024 Election, Notes Some Dystopian Plot Points Have “Already Happened”
As The Boys presents a terrifying dystopia under Homelander (Antony Starr) in the fifth and final season, Eric Kripke recently noted that any narrative similarities to our current dystopia are purely coincidental.
The Prime Video series creator and showrunner revealed that the supervillain has “the craziest line” the writers could imagine in episode 7, which has “already happened” in real life, despite Season 5 being written before the 2024 presidential election.
“I’m totally bummed out to say we wrote it before the election,” he told TV Guide. “It sounds super naive now, but I swear the plan was, ‘Let’s write a 1984 version of what creeping authoritarianism looks like in America,’ and maybe everyone will be like, ‘Whew, we really dodged a bullet.’ But instead, we got hit with the bullet.”
Kripke added, “And a lot of things that were far-fetched for us, we’re like — ‘That’s crazy!’ — have come to pass in a way that’s really really f***ing troubling.”
The 2x Emmy nominee has previously noted that the show’s corrupt, all-powerful “supe” Homelander has “always been a Trump analogue for me” after premiering in 2019 during the twice-impeached president’s first term.
Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Antony Starr as Homelander in ‘The Boys’
With the final season premiering April 8 on Prime Video, Kripke said, “There’s been a total of zero notes about pulling our punches or about making things less political or less savage. The various powers that be have been really great about it. I think they know that we’d just do it anyway, so why bother?”
In the fifth and final season of The Boysthe world is completely subject to Homelander’s erratic, egomaniacal whims. With Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) and Frenchie (Tomer Capone) imprisoned in a ‘Freedom Camp’, Annie (Erin Moriarty) struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) is nowhere to be found. But when Butcher (Karl Urban) reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it.
