"No Fairytale Ending": Actor Playing Huey in "The Boys" Urges Fans to Prepare for the Worst
The clock is ticking toward season five, and the mood feels prickly rather than celebratory. With days remaining before the new episodes arrive, the final stretch looks messier than most trailers let on—on- and off-screen.
Jack Quaid, Huey Campbell in the series, leaned into that unease during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Asked whether anything resembling a happy ending was coming, he could barely contain his reaction.
No, not a chance. This is "The Boys." There’s definitely no fairytale ending here. This is the final season, and we really mean it. Characters—I won’t say who—will meet their end. It’s madness, it’s really something crazy.
He also said finishing the shoot hit him harder than he expected.
My character is usually covered in blood on the show, and it was so strange: standing in a puddle of fake blood and other fluids, but feeling sad thinking, "God, I’m really going to miss this." I was soaked in that stuff from head to toe. But it was the greatest honor of my life; I sincerely love this series and everyone involved in it.
The trailer amplifies that grim feeling. One brief clip catches The Patriotic (Antony Starr) savagely assaulting someone—viewers have already floated the idea that the victim could be his son Ryan, a catalyst for the character’s internal collapse (e.g., long-standing tension within the family).
Between Butcher’s fury and the team's vendetta against The Seven, the series seems set on burning bridges rather than patching them. So, will fan favorites survive? Maybe not — and that uncertainty is part of why anticipation now tastes a bit like dread.
The premiere of the fifth season of "The Boys" will take place on April 8, 2026.