It’s already vacation time for Gen V. After eight episodes, the series derived from The Boys delivered the conclusion of its second season, without any promise of a return to the small screen. After all, it was mainly a matter of preparing for the final season of Eric Kripke’s series by telling how the new superheroes deal with a world radically different from that of their elders. A big challenge for the creative teams who could count on a gallery of exciting characters to question our societies from a more human angle. In season 2, mourning played an important role as the character of Andre died in captivity between two bursts of episodes. A death that had not been planned by the writers and creators.
Indeed, Andre had to be an integral part of this story and follow the characters in their fight against Cypher. It was the death of his interpreter in March 2024 which led to a complete rewriting of season 2. Quickly, the teams made the decision not to offer his role to another actor but to make this loss a component of the narrative. For Derek Luh, who plays Jordan Li in the series, the “The writers did a wonderful job of honoring Chance and Andre throughout the series. As a cast, I’m so proud of us for finding a way to support and get through this together and honor his memory.”.
Jaz Sinclair, who plays Marie, told us that she offered to pay tribute to her with a line. “At the end, when I say, ‘it was for Andre,’ that was my idea. I pitched that, I really wanted the ending to lead back to him.” A sentiment shared by London Thor: “There’s a lot of him in the show. In the last scene, Lizze (Emma) is wearing one of his costumes from season 1. We also tried to wear Naruto t-shirts but we didn’t succeed. They were his favorite.”
London Thor adds not “To be able to think of a better way to do it, that was a tragic event. It could have been done in an insensitive way by replacing him, which would have been terrible. We couldn’t do that.”
A different ending
In addition to the story of Polarity, creator Michelle Fazekas explains to Television Academy that the death of Chance Perdomo pushed her to rethink the conclusion of this season 2 by avoiding at all costs adding a death for the grand finale.
“Part of the change was caused by the death of Chance Perdomo, and that really changed the end of the season. One of the biggest things was that I didn’t want to kill anyone else. Someone had already died in real life, and a character on the show died because of that. I was adamant that we wouldn’t kill anyone else, because it seemed insignificant to me in light of what actually happened.”
The finale of Gen V is already available on Prime Video.
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