School is back in session: "Gen V" is back for Season 2
- The Real Perspectives
- Sep 17
- 2 min read
Reel Perspectives
September 17, 2025
After an almost two year wait, the second season of Prime Video's hit satirical comedy and spinoff of "The Boys" "Gen V" premiered on September 17. The first three of its eight episodes were released with new episodes dropping every Wednesday through its season finale on October 22. The stakes are higher this season, leading to an explosive finale and picking up after Season one's dramatic finale that saw many of our supes locked away, following an epic battle on the Godolkin University campus.
Produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios, the superhero series opened with a tribute to Chance Perdomo, who tragically died in a car accident last year. The actor who played Andre Anderson, Polarity's magnetism-powered son, won over the hearts of fans and will forever be missed. In honor of the late actor, showrunner Michele Fazekas and executive producer Eric Kripke will not recast the role but will incorporate his absence into this season in a meaningful way.
As the rest of America adjusts to Homelander's iron fist, back at Godolkin University, the mysterious new Dean preaches a curriculum that promises to make students more powerful than ever. Cate and Sam are celebrated heroes, while Marie, Jordan, and Emma reluctantly return to college, burdened by months of trauma and loss. But parties and classes are hard to care about with war brewing between Humans and Supes, both on and off campus. The gang learns of a secret program that goes back to the founding of Godolkin University that may have larger implications than they realize. And, somehow, Marie is a part of it.
The series stars Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau, Lizze Broadway as Emma Meyer, Maddie Phillips as Cate Dunlap, London Thor as Jordan Li, Derek Luh as Jordan Li, Asa Germann as Sam Riordan, Sean Patrick Thomas as Polarity, and Hamish Linklater as Dean Cipher.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Fazekas teased, "The entire (fourth) season of The Boys" has happened, so everybody's going to be in a very different place, and it's going to cause a lot of problems between everybody. Part of those problems will be about how these supes individually navigate the loss of Andre and their release, or escape, from Elmira, as well as their relationships with one another. Not only were Marie, Jordan, Emma, Sam, Cate, and Andre somewhat friends, several were in romantic entanglements, and the decisions they made around Shetty, Andre, and Homelander will undoubtedly affect their chemistry on all fronts."
This season is grittier, and the action-packed sequences are more intense than ever. The battles are some of the goriest and most violent, making the season highly entertaining. Hamish Linklater is an absolute delight and shines as villainous Cipher, the magnetic supe and the new Dean of Students at Godolkin University. Having screened the entire season for review, the second season delivers a shocking, mind-blowing finale that proves the series has found its niche and can succeed well after "The Boys" takes its final bow after the fifth season.
The first three episodes of "Gen V" Season 2 are now available on Prime Video.
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