Eric Kripke Skewers Elon Musk Over The Boys Finale Slam, Calls It His Best Review Yet
Elon Musk called The Boys finale pathetic — Eric Kripke flipped the diss into the show's most on-brand compliment.
Eric Kripke just got his favorite review of The Boys season 5, and it came from the exact kind of billionaire the show has been clowning for years: Elon Musk. While fans keep brawling over the brutal finale, a few missing faces, and Homelander going full meltdown on live TV, Kripke seems perfectly happy to wade into the mess with a grin.
Kripke flips Musk's insult into a trophy
Musk called the finale "pathetic." Kripke responded like a guy pinning a new scalp above the writers room door, sharing Musk's post and treating it like a gold star. He even spelled it out on May 21, 2026:
"OMG this is his review of what @TheBoysTV did to Homelander, I'll never get a better review ever. #TheBoys"
Not exactly subtle, but subtlety has never been this show's thing. Across five seasons, The Boys has turned tech-world ego, corporate spin, celebrity worship, and America's power fetish into a gore-slick satire. Vought has always read like a Frankenstein mash-up of Silicon Valley, pharma lobbying, campaign theatrics, and superhero branding. So yeah, a high-profile tech mogul getting mad about the ending plays less like critique and more like unintentional cosplay.
How the finale landed: praise, pushback, and one big no-show
Critics mostly applauded the series for sticking the landing on its vicious, nothing-is-sacred worldview instead of sanding it down for a neat superhero wrap-up. Viewers were way more split. Antony Starr's last run as Homelander drew raves (he's terrifying in all the right ways), but plenty of people felt the closer tipped into pure bleakness for bleakness's sake.
- The flashpoint stuff: that savage final act, Homelander's televised spiral, and the sense that the show refused to hand out catharsis
The absence that really echoed: Queen Maeve never came back for the final chapter. For a lot of longtime fans, that silence was deafening.
Where's Maeve? The straightforward (and kind of refreshing) answer
Kripke later explained that Dominique McElligott has essentially stepped away from acting. They did talk about a return, and by his telling, those conversations were friendly and uncomplicated. She wasn't pursuing new roles and couldn't make the production schedule work. Rather than jam in a cameo just to say they did, the team left Maeve exactly where season 3 parked her: depowered, safely off the grid, and finally out from under Vought's boot.
So, did The Boys dial back its bite for the end? Not remotely. If anything, the show leaned harder into what it has always been: a nasty, funny, uncomfortable mirror. And if that mirror made Elon Musk angry enough to post about it, Kripke's not losing sleep. He's framing it.