The Amazon show ends May 20.

*The Boys *showrunner teases ‘emotionally satisfying’ series finale with ‘things that people have been waiting for’

The Amazon show ends May 20.

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'The Boys' season 5 stars Tomer Capone, Laz Alonso, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, and Karen Fukuhara. Credit:

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- *The Boys* showrunner Eric Kripke has teased the upcoming finale of the series.

- Viewers will see the culmination of five seasons.

- Kripke tells ** that he finds the end of the show "emotionally satisfying."

Audiences have almost seen the last of new adventures from Amazon Prime Video's *The Boys*. The final season of the action series, about vigilantes taking down corrupt superheroes, drops its last episode Wednesday.

Showrunner Eric Kripke tells ** that he's ready.

"I'm excited for people to see it. I mean, it's been a long ride," Kripke tells **, "and I feel like a lot has been building to this moment and this episode and these sort of final confrontations. I hope people really find it emotionally satisfying. I mean, I do."

'The Boys' stars Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, Karl Urban, and Erin Moriarty in Rome on March 19.

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Kripke teases that viewers will be rewarded.

"I feel like the things that people have been waiting for finally come to pass one way or another," he says. "So I'm excited."

The last episode arrives after a big loss for the characters: the episode 7 death of Tomer Capone's Frenchie, who died sacrificing himself to protect Karen Fukuhara's Kimiko from Antony Starr's villainous Homelander.

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"Everything's coming to a head," Kripke says. "The Boys, after suffering their most painful loss and not as far down as they've ever been knocked, have to pull together and rise to the occasion just when Homelander is getting ready to murder people by the millions. Anyone who doesn't love him in their hearts — genuinely, it's not enough to just pledge loyalty to him; you actually have to believe it. Anyone who doesn't is on the chopping block and that's millions of people."

The two stories are "converging on each other just as they're both reaching their highest temperature," Kripke adds.

The show, whose cast also includes Jack Quaid, Karl Urban, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, and Chace Crawford, has won four Emmys during its run, for stunts and music.

The final episode of* The Boys* drops May 20 on Prime Video.

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