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The first reviews for The Boys Season 5 have come in.
The Boys Season 5 will be the final entry in the main Prime Video series. Based on the comic book series of the same name, The Boys, which comes from Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios, originally premiered in July 2019. The show is developed by Eric Kripke and stars Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell, Karl Urban as William “Billy” Butcher, Antony Starr as Homelander, Erin Moriarty as Annie January/Starlight, and more.
The official synopsis reads, “In the fifth and final season, it’s Homelander’s world, completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims. Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned in a ‘Freedom Camp.’ Annie struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko is nowhere to be found. But when Butcher 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. It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen.”
What are critics saying about The Boys Season 5?
At the time of this article’s publication, The Boys Season 5 has a 95 percent Rotten Tomatoes score with 22 reviews. That number may change as more reviews come in; however, in comparison, the first season of The Boys has an 85 percent score, Season 1 has a 97, Season 3 a 98, and Season 4 a 92. Judging by these numbers, critics agree that The Boys’ finale lives up to the quality of the rest of the show thus far.
Many who have seen early screeners of The Boys Season 5 are praising it for its typical bloody insanity, as well as all of its real-life parallels to modern-day politics.
Bob Strauss wrote in a review for TheWrap, “Make no mistake: Eric Kripke’s adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic books remains the smartest and most relevant superhero TV show ever made. It’s just that there’s déjà vu all over the place as Season 5’s initial episodes repeat such series staples as grotesque graphic violence, often ickier eroticism, scorched-earth media satire, and more up-to-the-minute references to Trumpian fascism than a week of Stephen Miller appearances on The Ingraham Angle.”
Variety’s Alison Herman said, “With a conclusion in sight, The Boys mastermind Eric Kripke and his collaborators can both raise the stakes — major character deaths are very much on the table — and contemplate the possibility of a brighter offscreen future for those who survive. In its final hours, The Boys is free to be the most uninhibited version of itself, spewing profanity, vitriol, and bodily fluids with abandon. Rather than overstay its welcome, the show has wisely opted to go out with a bang.”
The first two episodes of The Boys Season 5 premiere on April 8 on Prime Video. New episodes will continue airing weekly until the finale arrives on May 20, 2026.
