All these spinoffs and being a major TV brand for Amazon doesn’t mean you’ve entirely lost your way, right?
For good or ill, nearly everything’s a franchise these days, or it’s trying to be. It wasn’t that long ago The Boys stood on its own as a brutal, often bloody takedown of standard superhero fare and the currrent cultural climate. While that hasn’t changed, the show’s also become the mothership for a larger enterprise with several spinoffs fighting for attention—and for creator Eric Kripke, the worst outcome would be for things to get out of hand.
During a recent Collider interview, Kripke talked about the potential within the Boys universe once the main show wraps with season five. He said the team is analyzing everything in the works right now, and confessed to living “in absolute terror of becoming the thing we’ve been satirizing for five years.
