As The Boys presents a terrifying dystopia under Homelander (Antony Starr) in the fifth and final season, Eric Kripke recently noted that any narrative similarities to our current dystopia are purely coincidental.
The Prime Video series creator and showrunner revealed that the supervillain has “the craziest line” the writers could imagine in episode 7, which has “already happened” in real life, despite Season 5 being written before the 2024 presidential election.
“I’m totally bummed out to say we wrote it before the election,” he told TV Guide. “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 added, “And a lot of things that were far-fetched for us, we’re like — ‘That’s
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