Amazon has confirmed that Gen V, its blood-splattered spin-off from The Boys, will return for its second season on 17 September, with the first three episodes dropping at once. From there, episodes will air weekly through to the finale on 22 October. Alongside the announcement came a first teaser trailer — one that doesn’t shy away from the show’s darker new direction, or from the absence left by the late Chance Perdomo.
Perdomo, who played the magnetic Andre Anderson, tragically died in a motorcycle accident in March 2024. His character won’t be recast, and Season 2 has been rewritten to reflect his loss. In the teaser, Andre’s disappearance becomes a central mystery, with his father Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas) confronting Dean Cipher — a new addition played by Hamish Linklater — demanding to know what really happened to his son at the hands of Vought.
The season’s official synopsis promises high tension and deeper conspiracies at Godolkin University, where Cate and Sam are hailed as heroes, and Marie, Jordan, and Emma return to a campus now overshadowed by trauma. The stakes escalate with the discovery of a secret program tied to the school’s foundation — one that seems to entangle Marie more than she realises — while a civil war between humans and supes simmers just beneath the surface.
Created by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, with The Boys veteran Eric Kripke among the executive producers, Gen V seems poised to blend grief, grotesquery and satire in equal measure. If the first season asked how far young supes would go to survive, the second may ask what’s left of them when they do.
