'The Boys' Season 5: Is it going to be the final season? Eric Kripke offers release update

While thanking fans of The Boys and Gen V for watching the second season of the latter, creator Eric Kripke shared an update on the production status and release. He confirmed that the fifth season will indeed be the final season and that the team is busy putting the final touches on the upcoming season of The Boys.

Posting a picture of himself and his VFX team on his Instagram handle, Kripke wrote: "First, thank you for watching & loving @genv (and if you haven't watched yet, what the holy mother******* f*** are you waiting for? Quit doom scrolling and watch!) Second, we're hard at work finishing @theboystv Final Season. Here's me and some of the VFX team today. Editing is all done, we're roughly halfway finished with VFX, Music, Color. I'm really happy with how it's going and can't wait for you to see. We go out with a bang. COMING (reasonably) SOON. #GenV #TheBoys."

The second season of Gen V, the spin-off of The Boys, premiered on September 17 and concluded on October 22. The eight-episode show picked up from the events of Season 4 of The Boys, returning to Godolkin University.

The original cast members reprised their roles: Sinclair as Marie, Broadway as Emma, Phillips as Cate; Germann as Sam, Thor and Luh as Jordan, and Sean Patrick Thomas as Polarity.

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Season 2 introduced Hamish Linklater ("Midnight Mass") as Dean Cipher, the aforementioned "mysterious" head of Godolkin University, with Ethan Slater playing its founder, Dr Thomas Godolkin. Newcomers Keeya King, Stephen Kalyn, Julia Knope, Stacey McGunnigle, Tait Fletcher, Wyatt Dorion, and Georgie Murphy are expected to appear as recurring characters.

It also featured cameo appearances by characters from The Boys, chiefly Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and The Deep (Chace Crawford).

 

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