Prime Video’s The Boys Season 5 Sets All-Time Rotten Tomatoes Record As Show Prepares For Final Episodes

The Boys season 5 is only days away from kicking off.

The final war against Homelander is going down in 2026, as The Boys season 5 will be kicking off the show’s final run, and critics are now finally sharing their reviews of the swan-song season. As members of the press have seen episodes in advance, The Boys season 5’s Rotten Tomatoes score has been revealed, as it has landed at 100% on the Critics’ Score.

It’s key to take into account that the number is subject to change, meaning the Critics’ Score for The Boys season 5 can change over the next couple of hours and days, as well as after the premiere. The 100% rating is based on 21 reviews that have been officially submitted thus far.

As far as the whole franchise goes, The Boys season 5 has the highest Critics’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes between the previous seasons, as well as its spinoff, Gen V:

The early strong response to the show’s highly anticipated season showcases that the creative team is not only giving the audience payoffs, but also maintaining its main promise: no one is safe. While the past seasons have been heavily praised for their bloody chaos, The Boys season 5 is already sounding like it’s not holding back on those elements.

Described as “Homelander’s world,” the final season sees The Boys split up, with Mother’s Milk, Hughie, and Frenchie being kept prisoners at Freedom Camp, while Starlight is leading the resistance against Antony Starr’s character. As Butcher’s clock is ticking, the virus that can take out all the world’s Supes for good, the stakes have never been higher.

Audience members can look forward to appearances of Gen V characters from The Boys franchise, along with a special Supernatural reunion between Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins. The Boys season 5 will also be political tones similar to what is going on in the United States, as showrunner Eric Kripke revealed to ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley that they wrote the story before the election, sharing the following:

Eric Kripke: No, it’s funny. Most of the earlier seasons we wrote and we were directly one-to-one reacting things that were happening in the world. We wrote season five before the election. And so it was really the very first time we were like, ‘Alright, so let’s speculate about what American authoritarianism would look like based on…’ We were honestly going more on history, like other countries who have gone through it and what does it look like? And then we were just slapping red, white, and blue on it. And my genuine, turns out naive, hope at the time was like, I think everyone will be like, ‘Boy, we really dodged a bullet.’ But then we all got hit in the face with the bullet. And it’s absolutely stunning and troubling to me how many of the things we genuinely thought were out there concepts, like, ‘Well, that’s wild that we’re depicting this,’ have already come to pass and in a way that’s not great.

I hope that people see The Boys, they’ll probably say like, ‘Wow, you guys are being real psychic.’ But we were just trying to imagine what fascist creep in America would really look like. I just hope it serves… I hope it just alarms people, honestly. I hope they look around and they’re like, ‘Oh s–t, some of this stuff is really f–king happening. That doesn’t seem good. We should maybe do something about this.’ That would be great. But I don’t expect to change anything because I think if the last eight years have shown us anything, the thing that The Boys is best at is not changing anything.

Developing…

The Boys season 5 kicks off with the first two episodes on Wednesday, April 8, followed by weekly installments leading up to the series finale on May 20, on Prime Video.

Release Date

2019 – 2026-00-00

Showrunner

Eric Kripke

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