Inside the Series Finale of ‘The Boys’

>**You haven’t made it a secret that writing a final season and a final episode is stressful. How long have you had a sense of this specific ending? How much did it evolve?**

>About the middle of Season Three, we had enough ideas lined up that we were like, OK, I think I understand not necessarily the ending, but where we want every character to end up. Meaning, who lives, who dies. The ones who live, where do they end up? We had that to a certain extent. And the way it evolved was just figuring out, how do we get to those points? The Boys, we’ve always said it’s character first, and we’ve always begun by mapping out where the characters need to go emotionally. Our feeling was, it’s our final season. We have 15 characters that we have to land emotionally. That’s gonna be our focus.

That’s…not really character focused isn’t it? Its the opposite of character focused. “We had bullet points where we wanted them to end up and we had to figure out how to get to them” screams like shit writing to me. This is why the narrative suffered so much, its because the plot was just extremely thin and didn’t come up organically, it was just the best way they could come up with to complete their bullet points. On top of all else, this is the GOT school of writing, you know, the kind of style everybody has(rightfully) been shitting on for years now

Season 5 was entertaining. Not everything I wanted but wrapped things up well enough.

In going to miss it 🙁