Published Apr 29, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT According to Eric Kripke, the show actually takes place in a "reasonably just universe" Photo: Jasper Savage/Prime Video Sign in to your Polygon.com account The Boys season 5 episode 5, “One-Shots,” pays homage to the comics tradition of standalone issues and chapters by zooming in on several of the show’s supporting characters over the course of a very eventful day. The format allows showrunner Eric Kripke to deliver plenty of absurd humor before things get serious in the final three episodes of the series. But he also uses the vignettes to present several characters with big decisions. “What I really love to write are moral choices,” Kripke tells Polygon. “You could go back over the show, you could go back over Supernatural , and again and again and again the crossroads moments are always a moral choice because I think that just really defines who you are both as a person and as a fictional character.” [ Ed.…