‘The Boys’ Showrunner Eric Kripke on Final Season’s A-List Guest Stars, Future of ‘Gen V’ and ‘Couple’ of Other Spinoffs in Development

“The Boys” are back this week — but they’ll soon be gone for good. Amazon’s satirical superhero drama will be ending with Season 5, which was announced by showrunner Eric Kripke Tuesday morning, ahead of the Season 4 debut Thursday. The news is bittersweet for fans of the saga between villainous supe Homelander (Antony Starr) and morally gray supe-hunter Butcher (Karl Urban) because while it’s the beginning of the end, it’s also going out exactly as the creator intended it …