School’s out for the summer at God U, with Gen V’s leading supes passing with flying colors in the season-ending fight against Godolkin.
The finale helps set up the major battle against Homelander (Antony Starr) in The Boys‘ fifth and final season, but also closed the book on season two’s villain twist, some of its leading heroes’ biggest tests and the multi-episode tribute to the late actor Chance Perdomo and his character Andre, whose onscreen death ultimately helped shape several other characters’ journeys across season two.
“I don’t think we would have had this finale,” says showrunner Michele Fazekas, when asked about how the writing team, which had four scripts at the time of Perdomo’s death, wrote the ending with his character in mind. “I think it would have turned into a very different season. I don’t know what, but it wouldn’t have been that. We somewhat started from scratch on a lot of the storylines, and the way we build the story is we try to go where the characters are leading us.”
The episode doubled as a swan song for the Gen V showrunner, who, after two seasons at the helm of the spinoff, has taken on showrunning duties elsewhere, and thus, returning in some capacity is unlikely. “I don’t think I could,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Obviously, there is timing, but no, and that’s OK. I’m very happy with my work on the show.”
While classes are out for season two and Fazekas has graduated from Gen V, executive producer Eric Kripke notes that the YA series is not done if Prime Video is willing to give it and its supes another school year. “That’s a little bit up to the audience and TV gods, but we’re ready and willing if we get the nod,” he shares in a separate interview about potential plans for season three.
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In two separate conversations combined below with Fazekas and Kripke, THR discusses how Gen V season two sets up aspects of The Boys season five, unpacks that Godolkin performance and failed crusade, and explores how the writers developed a group of supes to counter The Boys’ biggest antagonist.
At the end of season two, viewers see A-Train and Starlight appear to invite the Guardians of Godolkin to join the resistance. How much of a role will these young supes, who now kind of look like their own hero team, play in The Boys season five? And how will it be different from the cameos of season four?
ERIC KRIPKE They are playing an important part. Part of the fun of wrapping out season two that way is that we really get to set the table for season five, where there’s now this active and growing resistance led by Starlight that A-Train is an important part of. They’re really trying to take the fight back to Homelander and this sort of fascist government. By the same respect, we still work hard to try to maintain our balance that The Boys is about The Boys, and Gen V is about Gen V. The characters provide crucial assists, but it’s still about The Boys, and you can watch it without having watched Gen V and vice versa. But watching both is still a much more fun experience.
Those final moments with their arrival felt a little bit like the shows were merging, as if this could be the end of Gen V. But you don’t see it as that?
KRIPKE We don’t play it in season five of The Boys that this is the end of Gen V. We leave them open-ended because we actually have more Gen V story to tell, and we’d love to tell it. It depends on the ratings and how many people end up tuning in. We have to make it so Amazon picks us up for another season.
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