The school finally returned to the session. The second season of “The Boys” spinoff, Gen V, will debut on Amazon’s Prime Video on September 17th, launching a three-episode batch.
With nearly two years since the show’s freshman installments, fans may need some supplemental reading material to refresh their memories of key characters and plot points before heading into season 2.
The finale of the first season of “Gen V,” entitled “Godolkin’s Guardians,” ends with Godolkin University students Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Andre (Perdom), Jordan (Derekle/London Tall), and Emma (Lizze Broadway).
The fight at Godolkin came when Kate (Maddie Phillips) was trying to persuade Sam (Asa German) to turn on the non-soup humans and eradicate them as retaliation for how Kate, Sam and the others were treated by the non-supe Beauze of their powers. Cate does all this after first killing her leader, God U’s Dean Shetty (Shelley Conn), when she discovers that Cate is about to spread the virus to kill Shetty and kill Supes.
(It turns out that Dean Shetty’s grumble against Supes comes from the fact that her husband and daughter were killed when Vought’s Star Supes Homelander and Queen Maeve abandoned them.
Kate is the girlfriend of Golden Boy/Lu Cliordan (Patrick Schwarzenegger), and Sam is his brother, and has been hiding from his family and society for years due to the destructive nature of his powers. Golden Boy committed suicide early in the season.
Before Golden Boy’s death, Andre and Jordan were good friends with Golden Boy and Kate, and the four were the most popular and beloved of God’s students when Marie and Emma came as freshmen at the beginning of the season. Things happen while his best friend, Golden Boy, is still alive.
As the gang tries to uncover the mystery of why Golden Boy killed herself and what’s going on with God U, Marie and Jordan each have romantic feelings for each other. Emma and Sam fall on each other after they rescue him from his life captured under God, but he turns him back so that his anger over his own treatment and the death of his brother joins Kate on her mission against non-soup.
“Gen V” Season 1 concluded in November 2023, with Marie surviving the battle with Homelander in this big fight over the virus.
It was a conspiracy that the “Gen V” writer worked for before the “Gen V” writer suddenly died in a motorcycle crash in March 2024. At the time of his death, Amazon confirmed that his role was not rebooted again, and that the planned storyline for Season 2 was adjusted, and production was delayed accordingly.
While much of what was changed until “Gen V” season 2 airs is unknown, Amazon’s bullying in “The Boys” season 4 provides clues as to the direction it takes, including adding Hamish Linklater as the new dean of God U.
Following Amazon’s description for “Gen V” Season 2: “As the rest of America adapts to Homlander’s Iron Fist, Godolkin University, the mysterious new Dean preaches a curriculum that promises to become even stronger than ever. On and off campus, gangs learn secret programs that date back to the founding of Godolkin University.
