Via Variety and other outlets, Gen V co-creators Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg have announced the show will not return for a third season. “While we wish we could keep the party going another season at Godolkin, we’re committed to continuing the Gen V characters’ stories in The Boys season 5 and other VCU [Vought Cinematic Universe] projects on the horizon. You’ll see them again,” they said.
Launched in 2023, Gen V follows the superpowered students of Godolkin University, which is run by Vought, the corporation that also created the Seven (and supes in general) on The Boys. The show received positive reviews, and earned several nominations from the Critics’ Choice Super Awards, and the Saturns, including a few for series lead Jaz Sinclair. She is among several cast members set to reprise their roles on the fifth and final season of The Boys, the fifth episode of which will be released on Wednesday, April 29.
Variety‘s report indicates the show was ended over low ratings, rather than the cast possibly being killed off on The Boys, with the show’s second season failing to make Nielsen’s streaming top 10 originals chart for all but one week of its run. Entertainment Weekly quotes Kripke as having said the pitch for season three was “really surprising and unexpected, but great and really emotionally grounded,” and that “if the ratings are good enough, they’ll give us a [renewal].”
The Boys, produced by Sony Pictures Television and released by Prime Video, will conclude on May 20. Another spin-off, the ’60-set prequel series Vought Rising, will premiere sometime next year, and yet another, The Boys: Mexico (starring Gael García Bernal), is in development. Kripke previously stated that, if renewed, Vought Rising would feature a member of Gen V‘s cast, albeit Ethan Slater‘s immortal villain Thomas Godolkin, instead of any of the show’s heroes.
