Some Bad News About ‘The Boys’ Season 5 Release Date
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The Boys season 5's release date will not be here until a long while from now, despite the fact that filming has just ended.
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July 2, 2025
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AuthorJul 02, 2025, 02:02pm EDTThe BoysAmazon 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 filming
Yes and no, as the post-duction 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 duction
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
The BoysAmazon Prime MORE FOR YOU 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 ly not air until after The Boys season 5 ends the mainline series, and then we enter The Walking Dead territory where the IP s 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, his long-term friend and partner
We have learned that the 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 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 ing works now, it or not
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