SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Gen V, Season 2 episode ‘Hell Week’
As Gen V heads into its Season 2 finale, Eric Kripke had the wind taken out of his sails with the show’s latest twist.
The boss of Prime Video‘s The Boys franchise recently admitted that he was “irritated” that “very, very smart” fans of the collegiate spinoff series figured out the twist of this week’s penultimate episode ‘Hell Week’, that Hamish Linklater‘s Dean Cipher is actually a non-Supe under the mind control of God U founder Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater).
“I’m well aware that a lot of the fans online have been picking apart the clues and got on the right scent. I give them credit,” Kripke told The Wrap. “In the same breath, I’m irritated.”
In the penultimate episode, the burned body Cipher has been caring for is revealed to be that of Godolkin. Not realizing it’s actually Godolkin’s will to “cull the herd” by killing off weaker Supes, Marie (Jaz Sinclair) restores the Project Odessa mastermind to full health, unwittingly setting him free to enact his plan.
“That primarily came from [showrunner] Michele [Fazekas] and Tom Schnauz, her executive producer,” added Kripke. “[It was] just a super cool twist [and] just a really fun notion that this whole time you think Hamish is the bad guy, and then it turns out that the bad guy is actually Thomas Godolkin, which is the first person you saw the whole season and just bringing it all back to just the guy who founded the place in the first place – that was really fun.
Ethan Slater as Thomas Godolkin in ‘Gen V’
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After Marie and The Boys‘ Homelander (Antony Starr) were revealed to be the only two surviving products of Project Odessa, Kripke revealed that the fifth and final season of the parent series will be set “about six months after Gen V season 2 ends.”
In July, Kripke wrapped the final season of The Boys, which premieres in 2026. Prime also has the animated spin-off The Boys Presents: Diabolical. Meanwhile, Paul Grellong serves as showrunner on the upcoming prequel series Vought Rising, and Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal are executive producing The Boys: Mexico, from Blue Beetle writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer.
