'Now’s the Time They’re Paying Attention to the Numbers' — The Boys Showrunner Has a Message for Fans Who Want Gen V Season 3

Gen V and The Boys creator Eric Kripke has a stark connection for fans who privation Amazon to greenlight Gen V Season 3.

“We’re fortunate successful that we’ve ever gotten a batch of support. We inactive person to present ratings,” helium explained to The Wrap successful a caller interrogation successful which helium was asked astir however enactment changes astatine Amazon mightiness impact the amusement going forward. “It’s a precise classic, old-school TV thing, but we request viewers to amusement up to warrant much of them.”

Kripke past got blunt with the outlet:

“We person a program for Gen V Season 3, and we’re psyched astir it, but we request capable viewers to ticker Season 2 to warrant Season 3. Now’s the clip that they’re paying attraction to the numbers. So don’t ticker adjacent a twelvemonth from now. Turn connected Prime [Video] and ticker it now. If capable radical ticker past we’ll get a Season 3. Same applies to Vought Rising Season 1. We person plans for a Season 2, if we can. They’ve been thing but supportive, and they’re giving america our opportunities. But it’s a concern and we besides person to deliver. So hopefully the assemblage shows up.”

Last month, Peter Friedlander was named Amazon’s caller planetary caput of TV aft spending 14 years arsenic an exec with Netflix. That said, it does seem, similar Kripke said, arsenic though determination is mostly the aforesaid anticipation placed connected astir if not each shows for Kripke’s work, adjacent with the alteration successful leadership. A steady, demonstrable viewership volition ever pb toward a greenlight.

And Kripke truly wants that greenlight — due to the fact that helium decidedly has much enactment helium wants to bash wrong the beingness of The Boys and Gen V.

“As agelong arsenic there’s an absorbing communicative to archer and caller facets to reveal, I’m in. Without spoiling anything, I deliberation the beingness post-’The Boys’ Season 5 is specified a fascinating universe, there’s a batch to explore,” the showrunner told the outlet. “It’s truthful overmuch much of the chaotic westbound successful presumption of, like, f–king thing goes — without giving thing away. And I deliberation that would beryllium a blast to enactment the ‘Gen V’ kids successful the mediate of.”

You tin accidental that again. The 5th play of The Boys is expected to premiere adjacent year, portion the 2nd play of Gen V is presently airing play connected Prime.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.