‘The Boys’ Renewed For Season 4

With Prime Video’s The Boys halfway through its third season, the streamer has officially renewed the series for a fourth. So if you’ve been loving the sharp superhero satire, great news, there’s more to come! And if you’re one of the people review-bombing the show in the hopes of getting it canceled because you find its politics too woke? Then [insert picture of Butcher’s dog Terror licking his own balls here].

“Speaking for the cast and crew, we’re so grateful to Sony, Amazon, and most of all the fans for embracing the show and allowing us to make more,” Eric Kripke, The Boys showrunner, said in a release provided to Decider. “We’re thrilled to continue Butcher and the Boys’ fight against Homelander and the Seven, as well as comment on the insane world we’re living in. Also, this is the first time in history that exploding genitalia has led to further success.”

As usual, Kripke is making a cheeky (no pun intended, because we’re about to talk about penises, not butts) joke about the content of the show, which has been raunchier and bigger than ever before. In fact, and spoiler alert past this point, Season 3 kicked off with a scene that found a tiny, size-changing superhero jumping right into his hook-up’s urethra in order to stimulate the man’s prostate. It went horribly, horribly wrong when the Supe sneezed, exploding out of the guy’s junk.

That’s the sort of thing you can look forward to getting topped (again, not a pun) in the fourth season! Yay!

“From our first conversation with Eric Kripke and the creative team about Season Three of The Boys, we knew the show was continuing to get even bolder—an impressive feat considering the wild success of the Emmy-nominated second season,” Vernon Sanders, head of global television, Amazon Studios, said. “The Boys continues to push boundaries in storytelling while also being relentlessly entertaining and threading the needle on social satire that feels all too real. This stylized world of the series has incredible global reach and the viewership for opening weekend is proof of that. We are immensely proud of the cast and crew that has spawned a franchise for Prime Video, and we look forward to bringing more of The Boys to our customers.”

Though, like other streaming services, Prime Video only provides vague stats that refer to other stats that they also don’t get specific about, they did note that Season 3 has grown over Season 2. With three episodes released on the initial launch weekend for Season 3, the worldwide audience grew 17% from Season 2, and 234% from Season 1, according to Prime Video. As one of many possible caveats, in 2019, when Season 1 was launched, Amazon Prime had a reported 124 million subscribers worldwide by the end of the year; while in 2020, when Season 2 was launched, they had 142.5 million. While we don’t know how many people are merely using the service for cheap packages and grocery deliveries, a growth in the user base of the service can contribute to natural growth of shows, as well.

That said, it’s clear the show is growing based merely on social conversation and awareness. And with an animated series already launched (Diabolical) and a college-set spinoff in production, the world of The Boys is only getting bigger, not unlike the man who sneezed and burst out of another man’s penis, as previously mentioned.

“The Boys producers and cast have proven year after year that there is no bar they can’t jump over,” Jeff Frost, President, Sony Pictures Television and Jason Clodfelter, co-President, Sony Pictures Television said. “We are incredibly proud of this brilliant and subversive genre bending series. Our relationship with Prime Video is much more than a partnership, it’s more like extended family. Everyone here at Sony Pictures Television is thankful to join Prime Video and Eric Kripke for another successful season.”

The Boys streams new episodes every Friday on Prime Video.