‘Gen V’ Season 2’s twist ending is “mind-blowing,” Derek Luh says: “I couldn’t even believe that that’s how it ended”
Someone call Victoria Neuman because Gen V Season 2 is going to blow your mind.
We are finally just weeks out from the return of Prime Video’s The Boys spinoff returning and the cast can hardly contain their excitement for the fans to see it. While most of the world is readying themselves for the premiere, star Derek Luh is emotionally preparing for the finale.
Chatting with DECIDER at the Entertainment Weekly Comic-Con bash, the actor behind half of Jordan Li’s character — Luh shares the bigendered role with London Thor — shared that there is no way that fans of the show are ready to see what the writers have in store for Godolkin University’s most devious and devoted students.
“Godolkin is a mess,” Luh shared, also mentioning the school’s new headmaster, played by Hamish Linklater. “We have a new dean who is very, very interesting. He’s very interesting, that’s all I’m gonna say — watch that guy. And then chaos ensues and it’s just absolutely insane all the way to the end.”
At the end of Gen V Season 1, after chaos erupted on campus thanks to Sam (Asa Germann) and Cate (Maddie Phillips) starting an all-out war with supes like Marie (Jaz Sinclair) and Emma (Lizze Broadway), Homelander (Antony Starr) had to show up and shut it down, only to then frame them as the instigators. While the ending saw the group locked up in Elmira Adult Rehabilitation Center, the newly released trailer shows that they are out, and trouble’s brewing.
As for what specific type of trouble, the trailer for Season 2 teases the arrival of several members of The Seven, including The Deep (Chace Crawford) and Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell), Linklater’s deceptive dean character, and a mysterious project led by Godolkin University’s namesake, Thomas Godolkin, played by Ethan Slater. According to Luh, it will all culminate in a jaw-dropping Season 2 finale that will have heads spinning.
“I mean, we get it episode by episode, so we’re trying to figure it out as the story’s going on. I couldn’t even believe that that’s how it ended. The way the writers turned it on its head was mind-blowing,” Luh shared.
It’s been a long time coming for Luh and the fans, as it’s been two years since Gen V Season 1 premiered. For the actor, however, it only meant more time to prepare and find Jordan as a character, especially considering that he’s only in control half the time. Luh and Thor go back and forth between the female and the masculine version from scene to scene (and sometimes several times within one scene, too), and it can make for a difficult process.
Thankfully, Luh says they “got lucky” while filming Season 1 because he and his fellow actor were “so similar in so many ways” that it helped facilitate the process. “We get to bring our similarities to Jordan and match, and then also the differences, which make it feel like one soul in two bodies,” he said.”It’s really fun to work with London and work on that. And then this season, because I really, really wanted Jordan to be as seamless as possible from scene to scene, I would go to set and I’d watch London’s coverage.”
He added, “I’d bring my little notebook and I would write down every little thing that she did just so that I could track the emotional arc and track where Jordan is in relation to the other characters. Because I may have a scene next that I have to track.”
Sadly, fans will just have to wait to see until September 17 when Prime drops the first three episodes. New episodes air weekly on Wednesdays, with the Season 2 finale debuting on the streaming platform on October 22. You can watch the entire first season of Gen V on Prime Video now.