As Gen V Season 2 premieres on September 17, 2025, on Amazon Prime Video, viewers can expect a drastically changed landscape for the young supes of Godolkin University. According to showrunner Michele Fazekas, the second season begins over a year after the Season 1 finale and postdates all events from The Boys Season 4, creating a new world order where Homelander is waging war against humanity — and some former students are now part of his campaign.
Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips) and Sam Riordan (Asa Germann) have aligned themselves with Homelander’s growing empire, participating in morally ambiguous — and sometimes outright unforgivable — actions. While public heroes on the surface, they carry the weight of covering up Dean Indira Shetty’s murder, and their choices have driven a sharp wedge between them and their former classmates.
Meanwhile, Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan Li (Derek Luh and London Thor), and Emma Meyer (Lizze Broadway) have spent nearly a year imprisoned in the Elmira Adult Rehabilitation Center, a high-security underground facility for superpowered young adults. Following the real-life death of Chance Perdomo, the show has chosen not to recast Andre Anderson, instead weaving his character’s death into the season’s emotional fabric.
This season explores not just trauma and recovery, but also friendship, betrayal, and the blurred lines between good and evil. Fazekas notes that “everybody’s going to be in a very different place, and it’s going to cause a lot of problems between everybody.” That includes reckoning with Andre’s death and the fallout from Homelander’s rise.
Jordan and Marie must revisit their budding relationship from Season 1, now strained by emotional baggage and deeper self-discovery. Fazekas shares that Jordan’s gender identity continues to evolve this season, adding that a trans writer helped shape the character’s arc. “Jordan has a lot of ideas about what is okay and what is not okay… there’s some stuff to learn about themselves,” she explains.
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In contrast, Emma and Sam’s bond begins in a more fractured place. Though the feelings remain, they’ve “festered,” and the burden of mending the relationship falls heavily on Sam, who must face his identity beyond institutions, Cate, or family. “Sam has a choice to make,” Fazekas adds. “Are we continuing to work with this, or are we going to come back to who we are?”
Cate’s journey this season is far more internal. With a history of actions that have led to death and destruction, her arc is about reckoning and accountability, not romance. Fazekas reveals, “Cate’s story is not at all about finding a partner… she has an incredible challenge that will happen at the end of the first episode.” Like Sam, Cate must decide, “Who are you and what side are you on?”
The season will release weekly episodes until the October 22 finale, promising emotional confrontations, moral ambiguity, and fresh tensions born out of grief, loyalty, and identity. As the world of Gen V expands within The Boys universe, Season 2 is poised to explore what it truly means to be a hero — or a villain — when everything falls apart.
