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It’s been about a year and a half since the first live-action spinoff of “The Boys,” “Gen V,” premiered on Amazon Prime to rave reviews, and now it looks like we’re close to getting our first glimpses at the trailer for Season 2. Producer Eric Kripke posted to X today with an update signaling the post-production process is going well.

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Kripke’s update reads, “Okay #GenV update! Eps are done editing, doing music, sound & VFX now. Finishing up the first trailer. Trailer drop & date announcement coming soon. (I think this season is better than S1 & will be worth the wait).”

Season 1 ended on a fairly huge cliffhanger, with Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) and most of the rest of the lead cast captured by Homelander (Anthony Starr) and imprisoned. The characters who sided with supe supremacists – Cate (Maddie Phillips) and Sam (Asa German) – wound up popping up in Season 4 of “The Boys” and helping to round up most of the eponymous heroes of that show.

The fact that a second season of “Gen V” is happening is interesting considering the premise of the show and how things wind up by the end of the first season. “Gen V” starts off following Marie, the newest student at Godolkin U, where young college-aged supes are trained to become crimefighters and celebrities. By the end of the first season, Marie and her new friends discover a secret underground facility where students are being experimented upon in the hopes of developing a super virus that can kill supes.

By the end of Season 1, the students in the lab are liberated and join a burgeoning new supe supremacist movement. The liberated students go wild on campus with some students like Marie trying to stop them. When Homelander arrives, he chooses to side with the supremacists.

So with Marie and most of her friends locked up, presumably “Gen V” can likely no longer be a show about superheroes going to college. Marie and her allies may get out of the prison somehow but then they would likely be outlaws and probably wouldn’t be allowed to earn credits with the rest of the student body.

We don’t have a precise release date for “Gen V” Season 2, though it’s likely to stream on Amazon Prime sometime in Fall 2025.

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