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“The Boys” bids a grim farewell to America

Eric Kripke's gory superhero satire concludes that the only way to save ourselves is to kill our gods

Published May 24, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)

The following contains spoilers for the series finale of "The Boys"

When last I spoke to Eric Kripke about “The Boys,” Donald Trump had just been re-elected. This followed a fourth season, filmed in 2023, that closed with a politician’s murder. That finale debuted days after Trump survived an attempt on his life.

Kripke told me what he’d told many other journalists: the rule guiding him and his writers is that what’s bad for the world is good for the show. The creator and showrunner then warned that the events of his superhero satire’s fifth and final season would be, in his words, “pretty bad.”

Even so, he held on to a glimmer of optimism. “I’m really hopeful that we are not prescient about some of these events,” Kripke told me. “I would love to be accused of being an........

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