Erin Moriarty Teases ‘Mixed’ Reactions to The Boys’ Series Finale
The Boys may not end the way fans expect.
The final season of the Prime Video superhero satire premieres April 8, with the series finale set for May 20. Star Erin Moriarty is warning fans to brace themselves for an unexpected – and emotional – ending.
“Oh, I just got chills,” she recently told Collider. “I think it’s going to be mixed. You think with The Boys it would just be like, ‘Holy f*ck,’ but I think it’s going to be emotional.”
‘No one is safe’ in the final season of ‘The Boys’
Moriarty, who plays Starlight, hinted that a major character death (or deaths) could be on the horizon.
“[The Boys creator Eric] Kripke has warned that no one is safe this season, right? That’s not a secret. And I think as a result, it’s going to be far more emotional than anyone anticipates,” she said. “There’s going to be a lot of shock, there’s going to be a lot of laughter, there’s humor. There’s everything that you would imagine, but the emotional gravity of it kind of caught me by surprise.”
“It’s a show that makes you laugh and makes you gasp, but has it made people sob as much as it will in the final season? In my opinion, it’s going to be really emotional,” she continued.
The Boys Season 5 will also reflect the current world, Kripke has said. While the episodes were written prior to the 2024 presidential election, the storylines ended up eerily reminiscent of recent political events in the U.S., a twist he called “f*cking troubling.”
“I’m totally bummed out to say we wrote it before the election. It sounds super naive now, but I swear the plan was, ‘Let’s write a 1984 version of what creeping authoritarianism looks like in America,’ and maybe everyone will be like, ‘Whew, we really dodged a bullet.’ But instead, we got hit with the bullet,” he told TV Guide.
“There’s a line — I won’t give it away — but there’s a line in episode 7 that Homelander says that was the craziest line we could think of, and it’s already happened,” he added.
What to expect from ‘The Boys’ Season 5
Prime Video has released a trailer and synopsis for The Boys Season 5.
“In the fifth and final season, it’s Homelander’s world, completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims,” the streamer teases. “Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned in a ‘Freedom Camp.’ Annie struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko is nowhere to be found. But when Butcher reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it. It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen.”
The Boys premieres April 8 on Prime Video. New episodes release weekly through May 20.
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