Eric Kriple, showrunner of ‘The Boys’, talks about the latest season: “That was the craziest line we could think of, and it’s already happened”
Despite his atrocities, Homelander has already been surpassed by reality.
To a certain extent, ‘The Boys’ has served as a mirror of the reality we live in today, amplified by self-centered superheroes and more blood than the human body can hold. With Season 5 just around the corner, showrunner Eric Kripke has revealed that this time reality has surpassed fiction with one of the craziest lines they’ve written for the show, and without giving away any spoilers, it seems it has already become a reality.
When reality surpasses exaggerated fiction
During an interview with TV Guide, Kripke discussed this situation, in which the final season episodes were written well before the 2024 election, in a context very different from the current one. In the series, Homelander seizes power, completely unleashed, living in his own world of whims and delusions, and establishes concentration camps within the United States.
“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,” Kripke said. “And a lot of things that were far-fetched for us, we’re like — ‘That’s crazy!’ — have come to pass in a way that’s really really f***ing troubling. 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.”
Kripke recently mentioned that fans should lower their expectations regarding the battles in the final season, noting that, unfortunately, they don’t have the budget for battles as spectacular as those in ‘Avengers’ or ‘Game of Thrones’.
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Season 5 of ‘The Boys’ will premiere next week, on April 8, on Prime Video.
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