Prime Video's most profane show is back next year – but I just have one big question

The Boys ends in 2026

The Boys Season 5 on Amazon Prime Video
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Amazon has done a pretty solid job in the last couple of years of branching out past The Boys, which spent a decent spell as the streamer's clear candidate for "best long-running series". Other shows have started to fill the gap it leaves when it's not airing, including the hugely successful Fallout.

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The trailer actually earns its label as a "teaser", since it really doesn't tell us a vast amount more than we already knew. The Boys are continuing in their joint quest to put Homelander in the ground, despite their past differences with each other, and are clearly going to need a master plan to make it happen.

We get the quickest of looks at Homelander himself, along with a few glimpses of some of his entourage, and it all suggests that things will probably come to a seriously bloody head at a certain point. What I'm curious about, though, is whether it'll matter that I haven't watched both seasons of Gen V.

The college-themed spinoff show has become a big hit in its own right, but a random combination of factors has meant that I've never actually watched it, and while I don't think that impinged on my understanding of The Boys' fourth season, I saw a few faces I didn't recognise in this teaser.

The shows are more intertwined that I expected them to be, and I'm curious to find out whether I'm going to be in the dark on some characters as a result, or whether they'll be introduced and explained carefully. Either way, I've got a few months to wait – the show's final season starts on 8 April 2026.

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Max Freeman-Mills
Staff Writer, Tech

Max is T3's Staff Writer for the Tech section – with years of experience reporting on tech and entertainment. He's also a gaming expert, both with the games themselves and in testing accessories and consoles, having previously flexed that expertise at Pocket-lint as a features editor.

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