15 Shows Like The Boys to Watch After the Finale

The Boys is the rare long-running show that stayed sharp through five seasons and is ending on a creative high. When the finale drops in May, there will be a hole in your weekly watchlist. The good news: the last decade of television has produced a rich vein of Boys-adjacent shows. Here are the 15 best, ranked by how closely they scratch the specific itch that The Boys scratches.

The Top 15, Ranked

If You Want the Violence

The most common reason people love The Boys is the exaggerated, punchline-grade violence that keeps the stakes real. Invincible is the obvious first stop — three seasons of animated bloodshed that ramp from shocking to genuinely upsetting, with character work to match. Gen V is set in the same universe as The Boys, uses the same tone, and features college-age Supes doing all the things young powered people would obviously do. It is the most direct like-for-like match on this list.

Preacher (2016-2019) was developed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the same duo behind The Boys, and is adapted from the same Garth Ennis universe of "what if the worst people had the most power." It runs four seasons, ends cleanly, and is severely underrated.

If You Want the Satire

Watchmen (Damon Lindelof's 2019 HBO limited series) is probably the most artistically accomplished superhero satire ever put on television. It takes the original graphic novel's deconstruction and pushes it into American race history with stunning results. Regina King's performance is an all-timer.

Peacemaker is James Gunn at his most James Gunn — filthy, hilarious, often shockingly tender. Season 2 arrived as part of the new DC Universe rollout and is reportedly the best season of the show. Harley Quinn (animated) is the unsung MVP of adult animated superhero TV — legitimately laugh-out-loud funny across four seasons, with one of the best romantic relationships on TV (Harley and Ivy).

If You Want the Anti-Hero Energy

Marvel's original Netflix Daredevil and Jessica Jones runs remain gold-standard street-level adult superhero TV. Born Again Season 2 is currently airing on Disney+ and feels like a direct continuation. The Punisher is as morally bleak as The Boys ever got, with a Jon Bernthal performance that will outlast the current MCU entirely.

If You Want the Trauma Rabbit Hole

Doom Patrol is one of the strangest, most emotionally raw superhero shows ever made. It is ostensibly about super-powered freaks; it is actually about PTSD, shame, and the cost of survival. Legion is Noah Hawley at peak Noah Hawley — a formally adventurous, reality-bending three-season X-Men adjacent series that only looks like a superhero show.

The Animation Pick: Invincible

If you only watch one show off this list, pick Invincible. It is the closest sibling to The Boys in terms of how it subverts superhero expectations, how it handles violence, and how it earns its emotional beats. The Season 3 finale is, no exaggeration, one of the most devastating hours of animation ever produced. Three seasons currently, with a confirmed Season 4 in production.

How to Watch These Efficiently

These 15 shows are spread across seven different streaming services. If you are like most viewers, you probably have three or four of those. You do not need a ratings guide to remember that The Boys is great; you need one in the moment, on your homepage, when you are deciding whether to start Gen V or give up and rewatch Breaking Bad for the fourth time.

The free CineMan AI Chrome extension overlays IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes scores on tiles across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and Max. It also adds a personal taste match score, which is especially helpful with subjective picks like these — some viewers love Doom Patrol's weirdness, others bounce off it hard. Taste match tells you which side you are on before you commit three hours.