Gen V Season 2 Scrapped 5 Already-Written Episodes After Chance Perdomo’s Death — And It’s Still Andre’s Story

I did not expect Gen V season 2 to double as a eulogy, but here we are. After Chance Perdomo died in March, the show had to figure out how to honor him and his character, Andre, without pretending nothing happened. It is a strange, inside-baseball problem for a writers room, and showrunner Michele Fazekas was pretty candid about how weird and painful that actually was.

They had five episodes. Then everything changed.

Fazekas told Deadline that the team had already cracked Andre’s season 2 arc and written about five episodes before Perdomo’s death. When production resumed, those scripts were essentially unusable. The pivot they made is bold: season 2 is anchored to Andre anyway — even though he is not onscreen at all.

That sounds paradoxical, but it tracks emotionally. Fazekas framed it this way: as much as the world lost Chance, the show’s world lost Andre. And Gen V is still Gen V — a messy college-with-superpowers universe with splatter, jokes, and the occasional gut punch — so they set out to weave their grief into the story rather than write around it.

'It is a weird thing to grieve a fictitious character, but we did.'

Fazekas also talked about how, in a very writers-room way, they sometimes felt like they knew Andre more intimately than they knew Chance. He was working out of Toronto, while they spent countless hours living with Andre on the page. Losing Chance was unimaginable, she said, and they also felt like they lost this character they genuinely loved. By the end, she realized the season is about Andre — and about Chance — and she is proud of that.

How the show handles Andre in season 2

The first three episodes dropped on Prime Video on September 17, and they confirm what happened to Andre. It is not a cameo or a flashback cheat; the story treats his absence as a real loss and explains it clearly:

• Andre was still trapped at the Elmira Institute after the season 1 finale, alongside Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (played by Derek Luh/London Thor), and Emma.
• He found a maintenance pipe that led out. He turned back to tell the others — heroic and very Andre.
• By the time he returned, the opening had been bricked up. Blocked.
• He tried to force a steel exit with his metal-manipulating powers, pushed too hard, and suffered a fatal stroke.

About Chance Perdomo

Perdomo was 27. He died in March 2024 following a motorcycle accident. Before Gen V, most people knew him as Ambrose on Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. On Gen V, he turned Andre — a magnetic (literally) supe — into a fan favorite, which makes this whole situation even tougher.

It is rare to see a show mourn an actor and a character at the same time, and rarer still to build a season around that absence. Gen V tries — and, judging by Fazekas’s comments, that was the only honest way forward.