‘Gen V’ Season 1 Finale: EPs Michele Fazekas & Eric Kripke On Running Into Controversy, ‘The Boys’ Crossover & Season 2
03.11.2023 - 21:33
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the Gen V Season 1 finale episode “The Guardians of Godolkin,” which debuted Friday on Prime Video.
“You took that blast like a f*ckin’ champ,” Gen V’s Andre Anderson (Chance Perdomo) tells Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) at the end of the Season 1 finale, which debuted Friday on Prime Video. “Anyone else would be in the ground,” the young superhero adds as he, the hemokinetic Marie, Emma Meyer (Lizze Broadway) and Jordan Li (London Thor/Derek Luh) find themselves trapped in what appears to be an underground medical facility with no doors.
Directed by Sanaa Hamri and penned by Brent Englestein, the bloody and betrayal-filled season ender of The Boys‘ college-based spinoff is both a handoff to the fourth season of The Boys and to the recently renewed Gen V’s Season 2. With chaos on campus, the Woods unlocked, a red-hot cameo by flagship series lead Antony Starr’s Homelander and an end-credits appearance by fellow Boys star Keith Urban’s Butcher, “The Guardians of Godolkin” is also a ton of angsty fun and deeply disturbing and emotional at the same time – as fans would expect.
“It’s the overall philosophy of everything in this universe, which is get as outrageous as you can get and as big as you can get and as boring as you can get,” showrunner Michele Fazekas said. “You don’t treat it like a joke. You treat it like you the underpinnings of real drama.”
In this case, that real drama involves the specter and horrors of school shootings, media narratives and corporate control to name a few.
Fazekas and Gen V co-creator Eric Kripke, who doubles as the showrunner for The Boys, recently chatted with me and laid out the serious path to today’s Season 1 finale and the power of