How the Second Season of ‘Gen V’ Will Set Up the Fifth and Final Season of ‘The Boys’

As the end of The Boys looms, spinoff series Gen V is back for its second season — and taking place between the fourth and fifth seasons of the superhero hit will help to set up The Boys‘ final episodes.

“As season four of The Boys ended, Homelander sort of took over the country, so this is really the audience’s first glimpse of how the world has changed,” co-creator Eric Kripke told The Hollywood Reporter at the show’s L.A. premiere. “Gen V season two really picks up the world from where Boys season four ended. You see how it evolves, you see what Starlight’s new role is, for example; where Stan Edgar is, where Sage is and where The Deep is — he’s somewhere stupid because that’s where The Deep goes. So we get to play with these characters and sort of position them on the chess board where we need them, so that when season five begins they’re where we need them to be.”

Gen V showrunner Michele Fazekas teased that “diving into the last episodes, there’s going to be some team-ups, I will say,” that link back to The Boys, and star Jaz Sinclair expressed hope that her character Marie Moreau shows up on the original show: “I would love to be on the final season of The Boys and Marie would love to join The Seven. I think with all the craziness that has happened, that’s still a dream for her for sure.”

Kripke, who serves as The Boys showrunner, revealed that he’s currently in the editing stage on the last episodes and “I just showed people the series finale, which they appeared to not be horrified by it and they seemed to like it which is great. Obviously it’s really hard to land the plane and I’m anxious that we’ll be able to do it, but so far the signs seem positive.”

He is also currently shooting Boys prequel series Vought Rising, which is a twisted murder mystery about the origins of superhero entertainment conglomerate Vought in the 1950s.

“It’s a blast because sort of at its heart, The Boys is a film noir kind of detective story — it’s like scuzzy good guys and wealthy bad guys and it’s got a lot of that DNA, going back to the comics,” Kripke said of the new show. “So to be able to go right to the source of like trench coats and feds and G-men and superheroes and just be able to live in that world, but to do it in a world that is very Boys-ian and gritty and heroin and hookers, it’s just a really cool, fun playground.”

Gen V‘s first three episodes of season two are now streaming on Prime Video.

Tiffany Taylor contributed to this report.