During this year’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, it was revealed that “The Boys” is getting another live-action spinoff, titled “Vought Rising.” With the massive success of both “The Boys” and its first spinoff, “Gen V,” it was no shock that Prime Video would want more. And hearing the showrunner talk about it, it sounds as if “Vought Rising” could be something special. Especially if you like noir tales. 

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In this week’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo powers up to take on “The Boys.” The show is premiering its fourth season on Prime Video on June 13th and follows a group of vigilantes who set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers. The show stars Karl Urban, Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Chace Crawford, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and more.

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We just found out that “The Boys” is ending with Season 5 on Prime Video, but that doesn’t mean the universe that has been established in that show is going anywhere. If anything, it’s only just begun.

Speaking during an upcoming episode of The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast, “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke talked about what the future looks like for the franchise he kickstarted several years ago.

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Since its debut several years ago, “The Boys” has consistently been one of the biggest shows for Prime Video. Now, as the series enters its fourth season later this week, it appears now is the best time to announce when the show will be coming to an end.

READ MORE: ‘The Boys’ Season 4 Review: Prime Video’s Hit Superhero Show Returns With A Great, Confident Season

According to showrunner Eric Kripke, Season 5 of “The Boys” will be the last one for the series.

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It’s rare for a show that appears to be running out of ideas to return two years later with the creative force that courses through the fourth season of Prime Video’s “The Boys.” After a couple of seasons of arguable wheel-spinning, seasons that seemed desperate to top the shock value of the first but didn’t do much with the complex themes or dense potential world-building in its abundance of ideas, “The Boys” oozes creative confidence with this outing and sets the table in a manner that bodes well for the future of this massive streaming hit.

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While the premise of “The Boys” is fairly simple to convey–a group of people aim to take down self-obsessed celebrity superheroes–there is a lot more going on in the show, especially in more recent seasons. The show never pulls its punches when it comes to social messaging. Hell, there was a literal Nazi bad guy in the series. And according to the showrunner, if you don’t like the messages found in “The Boys,” there’s really only one thing you should do–go watch something else. 

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“The Boys” already had one successful spinoff with last year’s “Gen V,” so when will the next one show up? EW reports that it might take some time before Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna‘s “The Boys: Mexico” become official. But based on what showrunner Eric Kripke says about the series, it’ll be worth the wait.

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Prime Video’s “The Boys” franchise, a satirical and deconstructivist look at superheroes, just keeps going and going. There’s the spinoff series, “Gen V,” which season four of “The Boys” picks up from, and there’s also a new Mexico-set version of the series coming from Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, both of whom will guest star on that spinoff. But the main flagship brand is back with season four.

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Based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, “The Boys”, since its premiere in 2019, has never shunned the shock and awe tactics rejected by traditional comic book adaptations. Cronenberg-esque head exploding, wrist shattering, gut tearing thrills are part of the fabric of the show that so many have come to love. 

READ MORE: ‘The Boys’ Season 3 Trailer: Sex, Violence & Butch Gets Super Powers

After the arrival of the teaser trailer for season 3, we now have the official trailer, further signaling a continuation of this dark and violent aesthetic.

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With “Spider-Man: No Way Home” breaking pandemic box office records and “The Batman” continuing the genre’s popularity, one superhero property is returning to remind everyone of the darker, morbid, and arguably more fascinating side of the genre.

READ MORE: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Becomes First Pandemic-Era Film To Pass $1 Billion As ‘Matrix’ & ‘King’s Man’ Struggle At The Box Office

A year and a half after the bombastic and gory Season two finale (our review of the season you can read below), we have our first trailer for Season 3 of the Amazon series “The Boys.” Adapted from the comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis, both the comic and the television series have become known for their no holds barred portrayal of sex, gore, and cursing in a genre often dodging all three.

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Does anyone remember “The Animatrix?” Released in 2003, it is an anthology film of nine animated shorts that expanded the universe of the Wachowskis’ “The Matrix” with new characters, varying styles, and unique visions. Almost two decades later, something similar has been produced for Prime Video’s smash hit “The Boys,” Eric Kripke’s critically acclaimed adaptation of the graphic novels by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.

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When a network/streaming service finds an unexpected hit series, you better believe it’s going to explore expanding the franchise with sequels and spinoffs. And for Amazon and “The Boys,” not only is the series still going strong, with Season 3 expected soon, but the streaming platform is officially greenlighting the first spinoff.

According to THR, Amazon has given a season order for the untitled spinoff of “The Boys.” The series was previously reported as getting a pilot order, but apparently, Amazon was enthused with what it saw in that episode and has given the series a full season to spread its superhero cape.

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Yes, heads literally explode. There is often more over-the-top violence then you can possibly imagine. And, we admit, a character with a super-enhanced phallus might have been a bit too much. But, shocks aside, the second season of “The Boys,” which ended with the final episode’s release last night on Amazon Prime, was an impressive allegory for the social unrest, political corruption, police brutality, and social media obsession that plagues contemporary society. Ignore the marketing because “The Boys” isn’t just another costumed super-hero show.

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If Disney isn’t going to make any “X-Men” films or TV shows anytime soon, well Amazon and “The Boys” are ready to beat the studio to the punch. It was recently revealed that the streaming service had greenlit development of a new spinoff of its massive hit, “The Boys,” focused on a group of supes in college. Well, according to a new interview with The Wrap, showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed that the show is actually going to take inspiration from the “X-Men” mythos for the new series.

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It’s understandable why Amazon greenlit “The Boys” for a second season before the first even started. And it’s obvious why, after that first season earned rave reviews and became a huge hit for the streaming service, why Amazon would give a Season 3 order before Season 2 began its run a couple of weeks ago. Basically, the superhero satire is a rare mix of critical darling and massive fan-favorite.

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Movie theater closures benefit nobody, and shouldn’t under any circumstance or for any reason be celebrated. But movie theater closures have created an atmosphere lost to the moviegoing public for over a decade: One where no superhero movies open wide all over the world and choke out multiplexes with corporate amusements made to pantomime human experience as they drag audiences on suffocating roller coaster rides. How strange not to see Marvel on marquees, and what an anticlimactic time for Amazon to release the second season of “The Boys,” Eric Kripke’s adaptation of the graphic (with extra emphasis on “graphic”) novels by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.

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When you watch superhero films or TV series, you see the ideal people receiving great gifts and using them for the good of society and the world. But what if the people who become superheroes are self-obsessed pricks that are really only after the fame and fortune, and couldn’t really care less about saving folks. Basically, what if the Kardashians were superheroes? That’s the premise behind the upcoming Amazon series “The Boys.”

READ MORE: John Cusack To Star In His First Regular TV Role In Gillian Flynn’s Amazon Series ‘Utopia’

And in the new, very violent/sexual trailer for the series, we see what happens when superheroes get out of control, but not in the villainy way.

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