How many episodes are in Boots?

Boots has 8 episodes in this listed season.

Is Boots a new series?

Boots is a new series (Season 1).

NEW

Boots(2025)

Also known as The Corps • Rekruci

Archived · Netflix

MA15+8 eps

S01

ComedyDramaWar & PoliticsHistory

ON AIR: OCT 9Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Boots mixes sharp-mouthed barracks comedy with the rough process of surviving Marine boot camp. Bunkmate rivalries and rowdy banter offer laughs under a drill instructor’s constant pressure, while the threat of danger keeps the training from becoming harmless fun. The recruits are broken down and rebuilt across one connected coming-of-age story, with tenderness alongside the adult language.

Cameron’s loyalty to his best friend offers a source of warmth in an institution where being found out as gay carries real fear. Set in the early 1990s, his story makes room for quiet courage as well as anxiety about exposure. Around the two friends, the platoon gradually becomes a rowdy found family, giving their personal changes a wider web of relationships.

Best for

barracks banter, found family comedy and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Bullied gay teen Cameron joins the Marine Corps with his best friend despite risks. In boot camp they experience profound personal change amid danger, as their platoon confronts both literal and figurative landmines.

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