Gen V Season 2 Finale Runtime Revealed: What to Expect From the Last Episode

Gen V is going out swinging. The Season 2 finale drops this week, and it is aiming for the jugular — not just with splatter, but with the kind of messy, character-driven choices this show loves to twist the knife on.

• Episode: Season 2, Episode 8, 'Trojan'
• Release: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 3:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time / 12:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time
• Runtime: expect somewhere in the 39–59 minute range
• Where to watch: exclusively on Prime Video
• Series: Gen V (2 seasons)
• Creator/Showrunner: Michele Fazekas
• Written by: Justine Ferrara and Michele Fazekas
• Main cast: Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh, Asa Germann, Sean Patrick Thomas, Hamish Linklater
• Ratings snapshot: IMDb 7.6; Rotten Tomatoes 91% critics, 69% audience

The setup: the founder is back, and it is bad news

Season 2 Episode 7 pulled the rug: that paralyzed, ever-smiling Dean Cipher? He was basically a rental car. The real driver was Thomas Godolkin — the century-old founder of the school — puppeteering Cipher from the inside. When Marie tried to do the right thing and heal Cipher, she accidentally handed Godolkin something he has not had in a very long time: his own body back, young and juiced up.

So the finale, 'Trojan', is a campus showdown. Marie Moreau, Emma Meyer, Jordan Li, and Sam Riordan have to square up against a newly resurrected Godolkin on his home turf at Godolkin University. The show has been building a season of psychological and political pressure, and this is the valve getting blown off — with fallout meant to echo into The Boys.

Why this version of Godolkin is uniquely terrifying

While he was trapped, his mind-control game apparently leveled up. He was able to run Cipher like a meat avatar without breaking a sweat. Now he has the body to match the brain — likely thanks to a cleaner, stronger Vought mix — which turns him into a two-front problem: physical dominance on par with the big dogs and a telepath who can make you betray yourself.

Homelander is a wrecking ball; Godolkin is the guy who convinces the building to fall on you. He is driven by a pretty chilling ideology about supe supremacy and genetic purity. Fans on Reddit are already gaming out the worst-case version: he sees Godolkin students as defective products and plans a campus purge worthy of the episode title.

'The ideological monster behind the corporate smile'

— showrunner Michele Fazekas, on why they pulled this twist

The ethical mess Marie has to walk into

This is not just a punch-up. Marie already made the controversial call to heal Godolkin instead of Cate, which split the fandom right down the middle. The finale is set to push her leadership instincts to the edge: does she go lone-wolf again, or trust the team to do what she cannot? Cate, as the other telepath in the room, may be the only one who can meet Godolkin on the psychic battlefield — if Marie can actually share control.

The season has been quietly picking at Marie's tendency to carry the whole world herself — her 'savior complex' — and the finale is where that either evolves or breaks. Expect hard choices about what heroism even means when Vought writes the definitions and grades the test.

'Dark, twisted, and deeply human'

— actor Ethan Slater, describing the finale

How big are the ripples?

Big enough that people behind the scenes are teasing a direct bridge into The Boys Season 5. The expectation is that 'Trojan' does not just end a semester; it unleashes the next major threat. The only real question is whether these kids come out bonded as a unit or get carved up into the next wave of Vought-approved operatives.

Bottom line

'Trojan' is being teed up as the most violent and consequential Gen V episode to date — part psychic chess match, part bloodbath, all fallout. If you are caught up, set the alarm. If you are binging later, maybe avoid your group chat for a few hours. Either way, Season 2 — finale included — streams exclusively on Prime Video.