- Prime Video has set a launch date for Gen V season 2
- The Boys‘ extremely rated spin-off will return in mid-September
- Its first trailer addresses one of many present’s most heart-breaking mysteries
Amazon has lastly confirmed when Gen V season 2 will probably be launched on Prime Video.
The Boys‘ extremely rated spin-off, the primary season of which at the moment holds a 97% important approval ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, will make its debut on September 17, 2025. The live-action sequence’ launch date was introduced at Mexico Comic-Con 2025 (CCXP) on Saturday, May 31.
Like many different Amazon TV Originals, Gen V‘s second season will launch with a three-episode premiere. The remaining 5 chapters will air weekly after that till its finale on October 22.
As for who’ll be again on campus for the sequence’ sophomore outing, Jaz Sinclair returns as protagonist Marie Moreau. Lizze Broadway’s Emma Meyer, Maddie Phillips’ Cate Dunlap, London Thor/Derek Luh’s Jordan Li, Asa Germann’s Sam Riordan, and Sean Patrick Thomas’ Polarity are additionally set to return.
They’ll be joined by Hamish Linklater, who’s the primary newcomer to be introduced for probably the greatest Prime Video exhibits’ subsequent chapter. The Midnight Mass and Batman: Caped Crusader actor on board as Cipher, aka Goldolkin University’s new and morally sophisticated Dean.
How does Gen V season 2 bridge the hole between The Boys season 4 and its closing season?
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Major spoilers observe for Gen V season 1.
To reply that question, we’ll flip our consideration to the primary trailer and official plot temporary for Gen V season 2.
Let’s take care of the trailer first. Surprisingly, it confirms that Marie, Jordan and Emma will probably be reinstated as college students at Godolkin University. As my Gen V season 1 ending explainer, nicely, defined, the trio had been imprisoned by Vought for his or her half within the chaos that engulfed their Supes-only school in final season’s finale.
Before The Boys season 4 aired, I’d predicted that is the place they might stay till the titular Supe-bashers broke them out of jail. Given how The Boys season 4 ended, although, that situation is, on the time of writing, extremely unlikely to occur.
So, why has this trio been launched, and the way does Gen V season 2 tie into occasions of The Boys‘ fourth installment? To reply these questions, could I level you within the course in Gen V 2‘s story synopsis.
“In season 2, college is again in session,” it reads. “As the remainder of America adjusts to Homelander’s iron fist, again at Godolkin University, the mysterious new Dean preaches a curriculum that guarantees to make college students extra highly effective than ever. Cate and Sam are celebrated heroes, whereas Marie, Jordan, and Emma reluctantly return to school, burdened by months of trauma and loss.
“But, events and courses are exhausting to care about with struggle brewing between Humans and Supes, each on and off campus,” it continues. “The gang learns of a secret program that goes again to the founding of Godolkin University that will have bigger implications than they notice. And, someway, Marie is part of it.”
So, Gen V’s second season will take care of the fallout from its predecessor and The Boys‘ fourth installment. It’ll handle why Andre, aka the high-school Supe performed by Chance Perdomo in season 1, will not return as nicely. Perdomo died in March 2024 following a motorcycle accident however, moderately than recast Andre, Gen V‘s artistic group tweaked this season’s story to elucidate what occurred to Andre off-screen. Based on what the teaser exhibits, it will be certainly one of this season’s most emotional subplots, too.
Throw in Cipher’s plan to create a brand new military of Supes who’ll reply to the tyrannical Homelander, the potential for this so-called secret program to be integral to the principle present’s closing season, and cameos from The Boys – Firecracker makes a short look in season 2’s preliminary trailer – and Gen V season 2 seems prefer it’ll be a extremely charged affair forward of The Boys season 5’s eventual launch. With filming on the latter sequence ongoing, its arrival on one of many world’s greatest streaming companies is not prone to occur till 2026.
