Some Bad News About ‘The Boys’ Season 5 Release Date

If you were hoping that you’d be able to watch the series finale of The Boys any time soon, prepare to be disappointed. Only just now has Amazon announced that The Boys season 5 has ended filming. Good news, right? Yes and no, as the post-production time this series has from now until release indicates a very, very long wait.

Using season 4 as the last test, that season of The Boys wrapped filming on April 12, 2024. Season 4 of the show was not released until June 13, 2024. That’s another full 14 months of production.

So, taking today’s July 2025 filming wrap date and going another 14 months past that, we arrive in September 2026, meaning it will be two years and three months between season 4 and season 5, which I believe is longer than the industry average, even in this era filled with huge seasonal gaps.

In the interim, however, we will have the second season of Gen V, the college-based spin-off of The Boys, which will arrive in September 2025 as a stopgap until September 2026’s The Boys season 5 release. I would argue that Gen V is actually a better show than The Boys at this point, but that’s neither here nor there.

We also still have two confirmed spin-offs in the works, the prequel Vought Rising series and the upcoming The Boys: Mexico, which still seem to be happening. Or at least we haven’t heard that either is cancelled yet. Both would likely not air until after The Boys season 5 ends the mainline series, and then we enter The Walking Dead territory where the IP lives on through a series of spin-offs.

This is something that Netflix is doing with increasing regularity with its big series. Reacher gaps are now being filled by its upcoming spin-off, Neagley, about his long-term friend and partner. We have learned that the popular Terminal List will not return for season 2 any time soon but will instead get the one-off prequel show, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, starring Taylor Kitsch’s character that will arrive in August. We still don’t have an exact date for season 2 of the main Terminal List series with Chris Pratt.

I’m not wild about waiting another 14 months from today to watch the series finale of The Boys. Actually, it will be two months after that, given that Amazon does not do binge releases for the most part. But this is how streaming works now, like it or not.

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