The Boys season 4

There's no official release date for the fourth season, but based on recent history we have an idea of when to expect new episodes. The second season of The ...

With that in mind and based on the show’s history, we expect Season 4 of The Boys to premiere in mid to late 2023, with our best guess being August or September of 2023. When will The Boys Season 4 arrive on Amazon? Here’s everything we know. need to know when The Boys will return for Season 4.

Filming for the fourth season, which will see Karl Urban reprise his role as antihero William 'Billy' Butcher is expected to begin in August.

Also, this is the first time in history that exploding genitalia has led to further success." There is speculation that The Boys season 4 may be released by the end of 2023. The good news is that there will be a season 4 of The Boys.

We've broken down the potential release date, which cast members are likely to return, and where the plot could be heading. But just a warning before we get ...

There’s a lot up in the air ahead of The Boys season 4, but we’ll keep updating this guide as soon as any news lands. The Boys cast has grown quite a bit in the past few seasons and it seems like almost everyone will be coming back. That means Antony Starr will be back alongside Chase Crawford’s The Deep, Jessie T Usher’s A-Train, and Colby Minifie as Vought suck-up Ashley. Homelander also brought his son Ryan into the limelight at the end of season 3 so Cameron Crovetti will likely return. The Boys are now back together and more focused than ever on their plan to take down the Supes. However, it seems like their major enemy has shifted to Victoria Neuman. After making a deal with Homelander, she landed the Vice President ticket in the season finale thanks to The Deep drowning her opposition. The Boys season 4 is on its way! But they’ll have a bit of help this time around thanks to Starlight. After trying to change things from the inside, she’s now firmly on team Butcher as a fully-fledged member of the team. The early renewal for the superhero show came just a few episodes into The Boys season 3. One thing that seems likely is that ahead of season 4, we’ll get to see The Boys spin-off show Varsity first. Given this news, it seems likely we could see new episodes of The Boys in late 2023. But just a warning before we get stuck in, this article contains MAJOR spoilers for The Boys season 3 finale. The show was only recommissioned in June 2022, with the season 3 finale airing on July 8, 2022. If season 4 follows the same pattern, then it could be released anywhere between July 2023 and March 2024.

Eric Kripke breaks down Homelander's turn to full Trump, Soldier Boy's dad reveal, and why the Boys will try to save Ryan in season four.

The downside of streaming is that a lot of filmmakers who work in streaming didn’t necessarily come out of that network grind. It’s the ability to do two things: have most of your scripts written before you shoot a day of film, and then have all the episodes finished before you turn them over to air. The mask has to be the opposite of the real thing. It can be funny!” The Boys is loud and obnoxious, and if you’re watching that show from episode one and not understanding the politics of it or the people making it, I can’t help you. But especially when dealing with genre and science fiction and bizarre concepts, it really helps to always ground it in something I can be confident every single viewer knows, which is the frustrations and strength of family. A lot of the focus of season four is on Ryan because the way that kid turns goes the fate of the world. The Boys is a show about fandom in so many ways, and there aren’t that many shows right now with sizable, vocal fandoms like this. He’s wary and respectful of the power of these communities but is baffled that this season of The Boys has been accused of sudden “wokeness.” “The show is a lot of things,” Kripke told me, “but subtle is not fucking one of them.” It scared the shit out of everyone but scared the shit out of me in ways that few things during the Trump Administration did. In some ways, this scene does the same thing for The Boys as a series. I’m not sure we had that end point when we were in the middle of breaking the season. For season three, we knew where all the chess pieces ended, but we needed to end on a cliffhanger, on a What the fuck!?

(WARNING: The Boys Season 3 Finale SPOILERS Follow!) In the finale episode "The Instant White-Hot Wild" Homelander locates Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) at the stash ...

The Boys comics have set up a framework where Ryan may ultimately find redemption in and stop Homelander, in place of another character who is now dead in the TV version of the series. The storyline of The Boys Season 3 has been all about family and legacy, as Homelander (Antony Starr) struggled to find his place in the world, and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) struggled to find anything besides his unquenchable thirst for vengeance. In the aftermath of the fight, Ryan chooses to go with Homelander for good.

The Boys season 3's finale features a shot of Ryan Butcher smiling... which could have bigger ramifications on season 4 than you think.

Having said that, Ryan will inevitably return in The Boys season 4 more desensitized to violence - and more comfortable committing those acts himself. Does this mean he'll become a major antagonist in The Boys season 4? Ever since the security blanket of his mother was ripped away, Ryan has lived in constant fear - of his dad, the authorities, Butcher, and even his own powers. Becca Butcher raised a conscientious and caring child, and even when The Boys season 3 starts, Ryan is suffering Homelander nightmares. But since Butcher cruelly blamed Ryan for Becca's death, Homelander has swooped in and provided the father figure his son desperately needed, showing genuine affection and kindness. Now able to fly (albeit shakily), Ryan descends to stand beside his father, receiving a hearty welcome from the assembled crowd.

Spoiler warning: Black Noir actor Nathan Mitchell is stepping into a slightly different role in 'The Boys' season 4 after his character death.

"We wanted to see Noir sort of Dark Knight of the Soul. It's hard to do that because he doesn't communicate. That's why he developed The Boys Presents: Diabolical, the anthology series of animated shorts that tell separate stories set in The Boys universe. "Like everything on the show, it's sort of this organic road to hell, I guess," Kripke explains. Kripke and the writers decided that Black Noir would die in season 3. They come to life and they have a lot of interaction with him." While the silent character has notably kept his mask on at all times, we saw a rare moment in the flashbacks of Noir without the mask — and he was talking freely.

Following the events of the season 3 finale, is there still a chance that Black Noir returns for The Boys season 4? How could it happen?

So basically, the look of Black Noir will be the same in season 4, but there’s a new character underneath in the mask with a different energy. It’s just that the guy who was inside [the Noir suit] in season 3, he’s gone. With this being said, here is where things get a little bit interesting: Technically, you will still see Black Noir in season 4!

"The Boys" showrunner Eric Kripke explains the major deaths from the Season 3 finale and Season 4 plans.

I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but the one that pops into my head of a “Supernatural” reference I think people enjoy is, we tend to do a lot of the through-the-trunk shots. I mean, they’re technically in the same scene, in that Singer is up on a stage and and Homelander has that vision of Soldier Boy. But there’s no interaction. So he has to really stack the deck with allies now that he has the ability to make those decisions. I specifically went back into Episode 5 and I wrote that moment of Soldier Boy reacting to the Singer poster for this reason. We wanted to do the opposite of that and send her off and give her a happy ending with Elena. The best way to do that was, well, take away her powers and she’s not useful in the fight anymore. And what was your favorite “Supernatural” Easter eggs of the ones that you did include? And then Ryan. Ryan is a really important piece of the story because he’s half Becca, half Homelander. If Butcher can figure out how to get his shit together and get the kid back, that could be the single best weapon they have against Homelander. But vice versa. And we did that because Annie can’t really grow into her own until all the characters that are around to protect her are gone. Obviously, we didn’t want to kill her and fall into the tropes of gay characters and bisexual characters in shows getting killed. It’s just a notion taken to the extreme that the more horrible public leaders act, the more fans they seem to rack up. “The Boys” ended its third season Friday with a finale that included multiple character deaths, changes in alliances and cliffhangers so huge that even Starlight would have a hard time flying down from them safely. Ryan sees the excited reaction from the QAnon-like crowd to Homelander killing the man who hurt him, and Ryan’s pretty excited himself by the crowd’s reaction.

[WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for all episodes of The Boys Season 3.] And just like that, everything's worse.

The Boys Season 4, 2023, Amazon Prime Studios Butcher’s ( Karl Urban) dying. [WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for all episodes of The Boys Season 3.]

“You're a f*cking disappointment,” a vengeful Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) tells offspring Homelander (Anthony Starr) in the final battle of The Boys' Season 3 ...

You know, I wrote them a letter and I was explaining the intent and the satire. Then, we all just started reaching out to anyone and everyone we knew, and you know, Seth and Evan have a much better rolodex on that than I do. I haven’t spoken to anyone there but the fact that they gave us permission to the song probably tells you a little something about how they felt about that viral video. It was ultimately, a hit on the bubble of celebrity. I like the Wonder Woman movies and I understand and respect that she approached that with good intentions. We’ve been moving our chess pieces in place to play a version of that story because that does feel like the highest possible stakes, especially with Homelander becoming more and more untethered from reality. KRIPKE: I mean, it’s a very different corner of the world and it’s a different concern and thematic but it has been interesting. It was sort of the old classic Hollywood move of how do you make sure that no one thinks the butler did it. KRIPKE: One of the end game storylines in the books that we always really responded to was this notion that the vice president was literally gunning for the president and that the president was in mortal danger. DEADLINE: With that, you must be going insane from the sheer volume of The Boys as it becomes a franchise. People come in and they come in angry and scared, and my response is invariably the same, which is well let’s figure out a way to write about it. So, you know, I don’t think serious issues and taking the piss out of them are mutually exclusive.