Gen V, the spin-off series of The Boys, have concluded their second season. With that we wanted to cover it for review.
As always, we break down our review by story, acting, and overall. So let’s jump on into it.
Story 8/10
Due to unfortunate events in the real world, Gen V has to jump forward about half a year, to a year and a half, time skip, pushing past some of the developments that led to the end of one of the most fan-loved characters, Andre, played by Chance Perdomo. Andre dies off camera, off story, due to the fact that the Chance Perdomo tragically passed away between the two seasons.
As a result of this jump forward, the actual Guardians of Godolkin are all locked up still in Elmira, with the exception of Marie who escaped and has been on the run quite some time.
Emma and Jordan are shocked to discover that Cate is attempting to get them out of Elmira. Having been the major villain of the prior season, and rightfully don’t trust her. This a major issue throughout the season, learning who you can trust, forgiveness, and the processing of grief.
The gang soon finds out the reason why Emma and Jordan were released from prison was due to the new Dean of Godolkin University, Cypher, who only wanted to release them to use them to gain access to Marie so that he could train her to become the greatest Super the school has ever known.
Marie, who escaped, is being hunted on the run, and is saved by Starlight. Starlight’s only request for the rescue is in hopes that Marie will return to Godolkin University to discover the meanings and secrets behind a lab experiment from years past called Odessa.
Emma and Jordan feel abandoned by Marie having been left behind at Elmira, while also dealing with the pain of their loss of Andre. However, if they’re going to make it through this year Godolkin University, they’re going to have to find a way not only to process their grief, but forgive each other so they can work together to take down this season’s new bad at Godolkin University’s founder, Thomas Godolkin.
Acting 9/10
Everyone does an amazing job showcasing their processing in grief with a relation to the death of Andre, previously played by the late Chance Perdomo. Specifically, Cate played by Maddie Phillips is able to show off that while she might have been the villain of the prior season, she didn’t stop loving Andre just because they’re on opposite sides of an argument.
Cypher played by Hamish Linklater does an amazing job coldly playing his character and does a great job being the focal point for a lot of the misdirection this season.
Lizze Broadway and Asa Germann do a great job playing Emma and Sam who have a difficult task of progressing from ex-lovers to enemies, that find a way to forgive and move past strife to be able to be friends again.
Sean Patrick Thomas who plays Polarity, is not one of the children within the cast, but an elder members of the show crosses a lot of the stages of grief, even more then the other characters due to his character’s son’s death.
Last but not least, we talk about Jaz Sinclair who plays Marie Moreau and London Thor and Derek Luh who both play Jordan Li. Their relationship in the series, dealing with the grief over the death of an ally, the anger of abandonment, and the over overwhelming love they have for each other that allows them to get over all of their problems.
Additionally, Marie has to go through their own personal journey as they become stronger and have faith in themselves.
Overall 8/10
I had to say that Gen V does a great job setting up the world of The Boys post-Homelander’s takeover of the USA. Even if it is from only the point of view of the school. The world feels small, constrained, but the human characters are constantly terrified and fear death at every moment. This is what’s going on in the much wider world that we will be returning to for the final season of The Boys.
To be a successful spin-off series to the main show, that still exists and is still is running, you must be able to convey your own story while also building the world from the original series. While this season is very laser focused at one area of the world, and only covers a tiny bit of what’s going on in the world of The Boys, I feel like they did a great job world building will also still conveying and completing their own personal story.
Conner’s Final Thoughts
This season does address problem in the world of The Boys, there are too many silly, but not useful superheroes, as a result of the rampant use of Compound V. While we don’t agree with Thomas’s solution, and inhumanity at Godolkin University, how many people really don’t have a useful ability.
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