‘The Boys’ Season 5 Breaks Prime Video Ratings Records Despite Fan Backlash

Showrunner Eric Kripke says the ratings prove that the final season's online reaction is 'not what's happening in the real world.'

The season has reached 57 million viewers per episode globally. That’s the highest yet for the series despite only five weeks of data, according to Prime Video .

The season also ranks among the Top 10 most-viewed seasons of any Prime Video original series, and drove the streamer’s largest three week ratings surge of any show or movie. The news comes amid some online backlash over the show’s storylines, with some comparing the show to the final season of HBO’s.

Some say the show has been sluggishly paced with too much “filler” in the lead up to this week’s series finale.that he found assurance in the Prime Video ratings after paying close attention to the online chatter in recent weeks.

“I’ve gone through a journey when I first started to read everything — like on social media or online — and it starts to feel like that’s the whole universe, and it feels scary, and you have a pit in your stomach,” Kripke says. “So then you’re like, ‘Oh, obviously, how many times do I have to relearn the lesson that the online world is not the actual world?

’ a fraction of very loud, opinionated people, and God love them. They’re welcome to have that opinion. But it’s actually not reflecting what’s happening out in the world. And once I saw , I calmed right down.

” Given the show has more than a dozen major characters, Kripke has said the writers have tried to navigate giving each character a meaningful story with a proper ending.

“None of the things that happen in the last few episodes will matter if you don’t flesh out the characters,” Kripke. “I’m getting a lot of online dissatisfaction, to put it politely. And I’m like, ‘What are you expecting? Are you expecting a huge battle scene every episode?

’ At no point during the writing of it was I like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re making filler episodes. So who cares? ’ We all thought at the time we’re really getting these important character details. We have something like 14 characters, maybe 15.

And I owe it to all of them — in that television is the character business — I owe it to all of them to flesh them out and humanize them and their stories. ”has its series finale — which runs slightly more than an hour — on Wednesday. The season has also helped set up an upcoming prequel series,The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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