“The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke and cast members Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Chace Crawford and more took to the stage for a far-ranging panel discussion focused on the fifth and final season of the Prime Video superhero series.
Having first debuted in 2019, the series concluded this past May with Season 5, ending the show’s seven-year run on TV with a death-filled, action-packed finale. Speaking on the choice to end “The Boys” in such a way, Kripke, who also serves as the show’s executive producer, explained that they wanted the finale to have an emotional feeling.
“So much of a series finale is saying goodbye to your friends. It’s such an interesting experience that you bring these people into your home for years. And so when they’re heading off and you’re never going to see them again, you want to feel the emotion and the melancholy of it, at least I do when I watch a finale,” said Kripke. “We were trying to tell this story very intentionally. We wanted to leave things messy…. Nothing is ever going to be perfect, but with an incredible amount of sacrifice and resilience and taking care of each other, we can find happiness.”
But it was still important to Kripke to have Homelander (Antony Starr) die the way he did — without powers and live on television. “We just wanted to show that when you take power away from somebody like that, they are immediately pathetic and blubbering and sniveling,” he said.
