Fans of The Boys are complaining that the show’s final season is spending too much time setting up its next chapter, Vought Rising, even as Homelander tightens his grip on Vought and the US president. The Prime Video series has four episodes left in Season 5, and new episodes arrive every Wednesday.
One disgruntled viewer said this was the final season and that too much time was being spent building characters who will appear in Vought Rising, adding that the last four episodes should focus on what the show has built over several seasons. Another fan called Season 5 a disappointment and said only Homelander and Soldier Boy had been enjoyable, while a third said if the rest of the season feels like filler, they will not be satisfied. One other viewer put it more bluntly: without knowing about the prequel, they would have had no idea the show was laying groundwork at all.
That frustration lands because The Boys has always sold itself as a dark take on a world where superheroes are idolised in public while abusing their power in private. In Season 5, Homelander is using complete control over Vought and the president to push toward godlike status, while the Boys try to stop him with a specialised superhero-killing virus. Vought Rising, which will arrive after the main series ends, is expected to dig into the origins of Vought and expand on characters only briefly seen before, including Stormfront and Bombsight.
The tension now is not whether the franchise will continue. It will. The question for the final four episodes is whether The Boys finishes its own story cleanly or spends too much of its last run pointing to the next one. Fans have made clear which ending they want.