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The Boys Creator Eric Kripke Isn’t Trying to Predict the Future


“People come up to me like, ‘Will you just please write a happy ending?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t really have control over any of this.’”

And indeed The Boys has run very, very far, to the point where Kripke says there are things in the upcoming fifth and final season — which has the psychotic, fascist Homelander openly taking control of America — that have “sort of already come to pass.” There’s an especially darkly funny moment toward the end of season four when Ryan, Homelander’s son, appears in the Avenue V Christmas special, which is basically a Fox News version of Sesame Street. The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke with Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau at an Emmys FYC conversation hosted by Prime Video and Vulture.

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