At 36 minutes before credits, the penultimate episode of Gen V ’s second season is its shortest yet. And while it does everything it sets out to do, setting up a new version of an old threat just in time for the season finale, it could use a little more meat on its bones. I was fairly entertained watching this episode, but it’s all starting to feel a bit perfunctory, especially for those who figured out the big Cipher twist a while ago.

Most of “Hell Week” is about clarifying the Cipher problem once and for all with Marie setting out to find the decrepit Thomas Godolkin like Stan Edgar wanted. She and Cate make for a good team, but they’d be unstoppable if Marie could get over her distrust of Cate and heal her. (That’s the main secondary conflict of the episode.) Unfortunately, even aft

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