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‘The Boys’ Will End With Season Five

With the fourth season of the superhero drama The Boys debuting this week, showrunner Eric Kripke reveals season five will be the series finale.

Eric Kripke, showrunner of Prime’s much-loved drama The Boys — which offers dark societal commentary via a world filled with superheroes — has always been coy about how many seasons the show will last. When Rolling Stone recently visited The Boys production office while reporting an upcoming feature, ideas for Season Five were already on a whiteboard in the writers’ room. Season Two of the show’s collegiate spin-off, Gen-V, is already in production, with frantic re-writes to account for the absence of star Chance Perdomo, who recently died in a motorcycle accident.

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