{"id":3829,"date":"2026-05-18T12:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:58:30","slug":"the-boys-season-5-recreated-breaking-bad-ending-formula-finale-fan-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/18\/the-boys-season-5-recreated-breaking-bad-ending-formula-finale-fan-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boys season five was inspired by Breaking Bad\u2019s ending but fans aren\u2019t buying it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With just one episode left until The Boys comes to an end, there\u2019s much anticipation about whether the season five finale can wrap up the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">many<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> storylines in a satisfying way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the fandom has been very vocal about how the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/prime-video\/\">Prime Video<\/a> series has used its time, showrunner Eric Kripke has said he and the writing team took inspiration from one of the best final seasons of all time: Breaking Bad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically, they used the same process as Vince Gilligan\u2019s team to try and pay off the loose ends that had been set up years earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Breaking Bad spent weeks mapping every loose end<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For context, the ending of Breaking Bad is one of the few perfect examples of a TV finale that satisfied &#8211; rather than divided &#8211; the fans. It provided closure, tied up loose ends, and saw Walter White (Bryan Cranston) facing consequences for his actions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/breakingbad\/comments\/hp86or\/finally_the_writers_board_for_felina_thanks_to\/\">Finally, the writers board for Felina. Thanks to Tom Schnauz<\/a><br \/> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Erhmantraut41\/\">u\/Erhmantraut41<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/breakingbad\/\">breakingbad<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the reasons for this is due to creator Vince Gilligan and his team meticulously mapping out every surviving character and dangling plot thread before scripts were even written, spending weeks just coming up with ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The writers\u2019 room itself famously used giant corkboards covered in index cards, with each card presenting a single plot beat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer Thomas Schnauz later shared photos of the process online, showing walls filled with handwritten cards carefully arranged into episode structures. This meant that pre-writing preparation took weeks, but it\u2019s also a huge reason why the series &#8211; and its ending &#8211; felt so perfect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kripke has now said that his team took inspiration from this process when planning <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/the-boys\/\">The Boys\u2019<\/a> final chapter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Boys season 5 writers used a Breaking Bad trick<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3834\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3834\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-boys-breaking-bad-1.jpg\" alt=\"Butcher in The Boys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-boys-breaking-bad-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-boys-breaking-bad-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-boys-breaking-bad-1-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Prime Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a conversation with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tYF5858JHqo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ringer TV<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Kripke was asked about how the team balanced wrapping up all of the character arcs with fan service and deciding what made the cut.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA lot of it comes out of the first five\/six weeks of the room, \u2018cause that&#8217;s when we&#8217;re really talking about the overview of the characters. The thing we were most clear on was the last 10 minutes of the finale,\u201d he replied.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter the big fight and explosion, we sort of knew where we wanted every character to end up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much like Breaking Bad, they had columns on whiteboards for every character and beat for each of the eight season five episodes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They started off with where they knew the episode would end and then began filling in the blanks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd then whatever didn&#8217;t service that, usually that was a good clue that it had to go away,\u201d Kripke continued.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI mean, we throw in jokes and moments and satire and our usual nonsense. But the spines were always looking at what they needed to go through to hit the beats that we needed to hit.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can&#39;t show ya much without spoilin&#39; the whole kit and caboodle. But Wednesday, we&#39;re going all the way. No matter the cost. Til the job&#39;s fuckin&#39; done. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yzbgI6WtdL\">pic.twitter.com\/yzbgI6WtdL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; THE BOYS (@TheBoysTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBoysTV\/status\/2056021172668768576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLike, written on the board for episode seven was \u2018We need to remind Huey and the audience that Butcher will murder anyone who gets in his way on his way to his ultimate goal, and to beware.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou&#8217;ll see in episode eight that that becomes an important piece of information.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kripke went on to say, \u201cThe other thing we did &#8211; because I heard anecdotally that this is what Breaking Bad did and I liked the idea &#8211; is we had our writer&#8217;s assistant go through every single loose end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So every single character and storyline that had been \u201cleft on the floor\u201d was listed, resulting in an entire board filled with beats to wrap up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you&#8217;re looking for \u2018What&#8217;s a story that we want to play or what&#8217;s a character,\u2019 we&#8217;re like, \u2018Well, let&#8217;s go to the board. Is there something we can pay off that we set up seasons ago and then we&#8217;ll look like geniuses because we did that\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kripke credits this for bringing back characters like Eagle the Archer and Adam Bourke. \u201cAll those things came out of just having a menu that we could play with internally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Fans have thoughts about the comparison<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3835\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3835\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-boys-breaking-bad-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse and Walter in Breaking Bad\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-boys-breaking-bad-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-boys-breaking-bad-2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-boys-breaking-bad-2-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: AMC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s been a lot of criticism from The Boys fandom towards the final chapter of the show, particularly in regards to how it\u2019s used its time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of fans weren\u2019t happy with episode six, for example, as it placed focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/06\/golden-geisha-bombsight-explained-new-supes-accused-of-ruining-the-boys-season-5\/\">setting up Bombsight<\/a> and the upcoming spinoff Vought Rising.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Others feel their favourite characters are making unusual decisions in order to ensure the main players are left standing for the finale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As such, Kripke\u2019s comparison to Breaking Bad has raised a few eyebrows. In response to the interview, one <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBoysOOCC\/status\/2056061356814590304\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cImagine if Breaking Bad\u2019s final season just had Saul make Lalo references for eight episodes to set up Better Call Saul.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another wrote, \u201cI\u2019ve watched every episode and I can say that everything feels rushed and tons of stuff feels forgotten and neglected. Most of the season actually feels like nothing happened. It feels like the plot hasn\u2019t advanced.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey got balls to even MENTION one of the greatest shows when talking about theirs,\u201d added a third, while a fourth chimed in, &#8220;This finale better be the best thing I\u2019ve ever seen in media.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you want to make up your own mind, The Boys season five episode eight lands on Prime Video on Wednesday, May 20th.<\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest film and TV updates and hot takes, <\/i><i><span draggable=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FilmShrine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like our Facebook page<\/a><\/span><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image credit: Prime Video\/AMC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This finale better be the best thing I\u2019ve ever seen in 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