The Boys creator Eric Kripke says he "lives in absolute terror" that the show will become the thing they have been parodying

Aya Cash as Stormfront in The Boys season 2
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The Boys has been going strong since its debut, but its fift😼h season will be its final one as series creator Eric Kripke reveals he "lives in absolute t🧔error of becoming the thing we’ve been satirizing for five years."

Speaking to , Kripke says, "The thing about The Boys is that it’s punk rock, and it hurts extra hard when punk rockers sell out. I'm really working hard not to sell out." He's speaking about the various spin-off shows that are in the works. Gen V is currently awaiting its second season, out sometime in 2025, and a new prequel show is in the works starring Soldier Boy and Stormfront titled 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Vought Rising. It will detail the early years of the company.

"We do these shows because we really care about them and we’re passionate about them," Kripke explains. "They can tell fresh stories that we can’t tell in The Boys and not just be about rapid expansion but be very careful and mindfuಌl about the choices we’re making and being able to defend why we’re making them. I worry about that every single day."

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Season 4 of The✤ Boys sparked some fan backlash as right-wingers realized, "hey, this play is about us." That writing has been on the wall since episode one, but sometimes it ꦯtakes a while for people to catch up.

I'm glad 澳洲幸🎃运5开奖号码历史查询:The Boys is bowing out after its next👍 season♓. I've loved it all, but I'd prefer to see it go out on a high, on its own terms, not fizzle away or become the very thing it parodies. As for the spin-off shows, I was pleasantly surprised by Gen V and its ability to forge its own style while still connecting to the wider Boys universe in a way that felt meaningful. It's given me hope for Vought Rising, too.

"There's no doub𝔍t that we’re a franchise now, but we’re🍸 trying to do it with as much integrity as Hollywood could muster, which isn’t much, but it’s a little," Kripke says.

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