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Boys It generated a lot of controversy among fans in its final season.
But there’s no disputing the popularity of Season 5.
The season 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 (using a metric that measures people watching at least a few minutes of each episode). The season also ranks among the top 10 most-watched seasons of any Prime Video original series, and led to the streamer’s largest three-week ratings bump of any show or movie.
This news comes amid some online backlash over the events of the series, with some comparing the show to the final season of the HBO series. game of thrones. Some say the show has been moving at a snail’s pace with too much “filler” in the lead up to this week’s series finale.
says Showrunner Eric Kripke Hollywood Reporter It has found assurance in Prime Video ratings after intense interest in online chatter in recent weeks.
“I went through a journey where I first started reading everything — like on social media or online — and it started to feel like this is the entire universe, and it gets scary, and you have a pit in your stomach,” Kripke says. “permission [you see the ratings and] You might be wondering, “Oh, obviously, how many times do I have to relearn the lesson that the online world is not the real world?” [The online reaction is] A small portion of very opinionated people, and God loves them. They are called to have this opinion. But it does not actually reflect what is happening in the world. And once I saw [the numbers]I calmed down immediately.
Since the show has more than a dozen main characters, Kripke said the writers tried to move around giving each character a meaningful story with a fitting ending.
“None of the things that happen in the last few episodes will matter if you don’t flesh out the characters,” Kripke said recently. TV guide. “I feel a lot of resentment online, if we’re putting it politely. And I say, ‘What do you expect?’ Are you expecting a huge battle scene in every episode?” At no point while writing it was I like, “Oh yeah, we’re making filler episodes.” So who cares? We all thought at the time that we’d already gotten this important character detail. “We have like 14 characters, maybe 15. And I owe it to all of them — because television is the character business — and I owe it to them all to flesh them out and humanize them and their stories.”
Boys Her series — which lasts just over an hour — ends Wednesday. The season also helped set up an upcoming prequel series, High Voughtwhich will premiere next year.
