The Boys star just revealed what to expect from the season five finale and now I’m scared

If you thought The Boys couldn’t get any more brutal, think again. Annie star Erin Moriarty is pretty sure she knows how fans will react to the season five finale, and it sounds like it’s going to be intense. 

Even the press weren’t given screeners for episode eight – aka the last ever episode of The Boys – in order to prevent any spoilers from getting out. 

Yes, the Prime Video series is inspired by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comics of the same name, but the story is completely different. 

In the comics, it’s revealed that Black Noir is actually a clone of Homelander and he kills the real Homelander, before he himself is killed by the military. 

Then, Butcher turns on his own team and goes on a rampage, killing anyone with Compound V in their system. Eventually, he’s stopped and killed by Hughie. 

But, as said, we can bet that the ending to The Boys’ TV adaptation will look very different. Starlight’s very own Erin Moriarty has given us a clue on what to expect, and one word in particular is a concern: “Heartbreaking”. 

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about the finale, she said, “Shocking? Yes, but by the time that episode eight airs, so many shocking moments will have happened that I think it will be more satisfying and heartbreaking. 

“Heartbreaking would be the word that I would use. At that point, the audience will have been heartbroken by many characters that are lost along the way. Our showrunner has said that will happen, so it’s not a spoiler.”

In short, there will be deaths and plenty of them, so get ready to cry your eyes out. 

What’s interesting is that she went on to say it’s “not overtly cynical”, which is surprising given The Boys’ reputation for being as bleak and brutal as possible. 

That could suggest a slightly different kind of ending with more characters surviving than in the comics. Maybe Hughie and Annie, or Frenchie and Kimiko will make it in the end?

“It’s still an episode that really drives home the finality of the show and the characters that we’ve all become emotionally invested in, whether they’re good or bad,” Moriarty continued. 

“The point of the show is that these characters are nuanced. They aren’t black and white. So the losses of characters that you thought you weren’t rooting for can all of a sudden be emotional because no one is all bad and no one is all good on this show.”

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