'Gen V' creators discuss the funny, scary finale from the little sibling of 'The Boys'

[This article contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of "Gen V."]

As "Gen V" careens toward its scary, funny and crazy first-season finale (having just been greenlit for Season 2), let's pause this explosion and remember what we're all here for: an explanation for what's happened and what's next for "The Boys'" little sibling.

Over seven episodes of the Prime Video series that's produced by Sony Pictures Television, the gifted youngsters at the Godolkin University School of Crimefighting have learned significantly more important lessons in their extracurricular activities than in their classes — particularly that there's a mysterious lab called the Woods, run by corrupt conglomerate Vought, hidden on campus and young "supes" like them are being kept prisoner there as subjects of experiments. One of the captives, Sam (Asa Germann), the supposedly dead brother of their actually dead comrade Luke (or Golden Boy, the erstwhile BMOC played by Patrick Schwarzenegger), may be the most powerful of them