The Boys Season 5 Setup In Gen V Season 2 Ending Explained

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Gen V season 2, episode 8!The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke has explained how the ending of Gen V season 2 lays the groundwork for season 5 of the superhero series. Gen V season 2 ended with Marie and her friends running into Starlight again, who asks if they want to join a resistance against Homelander and Vought.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Kripke, who also serves as an executive producer on Gen V, broke down how season 2 of the spinoff sets up The Boys season 5:

They are [playing] an important part. Part of the fun of wrapping out season two that way is that we really get to set the table for season five, where there’s now this active and growing resistance led by Starlight that A-Train is an important part of. They’re really trying to take the fight back to Homelander and this sort of fascist government. By the same respect, we still work hard to try to maintain our balance that The Boys is about The Boys, and Gen V is about Gen V. The characters provide crucial assists, but it’s still about The Boys, and you can watch it without having watched Gen V and vice versa. But watching both is still a much more fun experience.

We don’t play it in season five of The Boys that this is the end of Gen V. We leave them open-ended because we actually have more Gen V story to tell, and we’d love to tell it. It depends on the ratings and how many people end up tuning in. We have to make it so Amazon picks us up for another season.

He’s got a lot of people in line who want to b—h slap him. (Laughs) Obviously, Butcher is in the front of that line. But there’s Stan Edgar, Marie, Annie, Huey. They’re trying to mount a real push, but they’re also outgunned, outmanned. You’re in an entire country that has drunk Homelander’s Kool-Aid. They’re outmatched by the size of the hundreds of superheroes that are in every town across the country, who have been given authority over the police. So it really is a true underground resistance against a fascist government, which definitely has no comparison or parallel to anything going on anywhere in the world.

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