Eric Kripke Sends The Boys Season 5 Episode 8 to a Final 3 a.m. ET Premiere

The Boys season 5 episode 8, "Blood and Bone," arrives on Wednesday, May 20, at 3:00 a.m. ET, and the boys season 5 episode 8 will be the series finale on Prime Video. For viewers tracking the show’s end, this is the last stop after a five-season run that began in 2019.

Blood and Bone at 3 a.m.

The premiere time is set for 3:00 a.m. ET, with the episode also landing at 12:00 a.m. PT, 1:00 a.m. CT, and 2:00 a.m. MT. That gives the series a clean, overnight rollout across U.S. time zones, with the finale available first thing for East Coast viewers and before dawn elsewhere.

"Blood and Bone" will bring the journey of The Seven and The Boys to a close for good. Eric Kripke has carried the series to the small screen over the course of the show’s five-season run, and this last episode closes the book on the run that started in 2019.

Kripke and Garth Ennis

The Boys is based on Garth Ennis' comic book series of the same name, which gives the finale a built-in endpoint that the television version has been building toward across five seasons. That matters because the show’s final chapter is not a soft reset or a pause between arcs; it is the end of this version of the story.

Competition in the superhero TV field has not slowed down, with Daredevil: Born Again season 2, Invincible season 4, and The Punisher: One Last Kill all in the mix. Against that backdrop, the end of The Boys leaves Prime Video without one of its most visible genre titles, and viewers who want the full story now have a fixed date and time to catch the finale as it drops.

Prime Video on May 20

Wednesday, May 20 is the date to watch, and the practical move for viewers is simple: if they plan to see how the series ends without spoilers, the window opens at 3:00 a.m. ET. After that, the conversation shifts from what comes next for the show to how this five-season run lands as a finished work.