'The Boys' final season: Premiere date, episodes, cast, plot and everything you need to know

Amazon Prime Video’s hit satirical superhero drama The Boys will return for its fifth and final season on April 8, with the first two episodes dropping together. The remaining episodes will release weekly until the series finale airs on May 20, Variety reported.

The release date was announced at CCXP Brazil during The Boys panel, where creator Eric Kripke and the cast also debuted the first teaser trailer. The footage offers a glimpse of Supernatural stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles reuniting on screen. Ackles is back as Soldier Boy, while Padalecki’s role is still under wraps, though the teaser hints at a storyline connecting the two.

The Boys final season Plot

According to the official Season 5 description, Homelander now commands absolute control, driven by his unpredictable and egotistical impulses. Hughie, Mother’s Milk and Frenchie are held inside a “Freedom Camp,” Annie struggles to rally a resistance, and Kimiko has vanished. But when Butcher resurfaces with a Supe-killing virus in hand, he sets off a chain of events that will reshape the world. “It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen,” Variety noted.

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The teaser also shows Butcher (Karl Urban) reuniting with Hughie (Jack Quaid), Annie (Erin Moriarty) and the rest of the group after walking away at the end of Season 4, hinting at a massive showdown as they try to avert global disaster.

Alongside Urban, Quaid, Antony Starr, Moriarty, Padalecki and Ackles, the final season features Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Cameron Crovetti, Susan Heyward and Valorie Curry.

Based on the acclaimed comic series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys is developed for television by showrunner Eric Kripke. The long list of executive producers includes Kripke, Ennis, Robertson, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Phil Sgriccia, Michaela Starr, Paul Grellong, David Reed, Judalina Neira, Jessica Chou, Gabriel Garcia, Ori Marmur, Ken F. Levin and Jason Netter, according to Variety.

Produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios with Kripke Enterprises, Original Film and Point Grey Pictures, The Boys continues to anchor Amazon’s expanding franchise, which includes Gen V, the animated anthology The Boys Presents: Diabolical, the upcoming prequel Vought Rising led by Ackles, and a Mexico-set spin-off currently in development.