‘Gen V’ – Season Two – Review
Season Four of Prime Video’s hit television series, The Boys, went nuclear in its final moments as audiences saw Homelander and his followers move in against The Boys and the Starlighters, and a new day for Supe supremacy dawned. It was a highly shocking ending, and audiences were in no doubt that that is Homelander’s (Antony Starr) America NOW, and that the diabolical Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) is ready to stir up all kinds of manic crazy in Season Five. But before we get to that final, fateful showdown, we’re stepping back into the hallowed halls of Godolkin University for Season Two of Gen V, and Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (London Thor and Derek Luh ), Emma (Lizze Broadway), Cate (Maddie Phillips) and Sam (Asa Germann) are gonna find out that Sophomore Year… is about to get lit y’all!
As America adjusts to Homelander’s reign at Godolkin University the new Dean preaches a course to make students more powerful than ever. Cate and Sam are heroes, while Marie, Jordan, and Emma return to class, after months of trauma. War is brewing between Humans and Supes and our crew learns of a secret program from the 60s that may be significant to today. And, somehow, Marie is a part of it.
Season Two of Gen V picks up after the shocking ending to Season Four of The Boys, and Supe supremacy is all the rage, and everyone else had better watch out. Starlighters are being hunted, Marie Moreau is on the run, and Emma and Jordan find themselves exonerated and back on campus… and it’s all about to get crazier from there. Like always, showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters turn the volume up, and utilising the playbook set by Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, and Eric Kripke, Season Two of Gen V is going to get lit. Audiences find our ‘heroes’ firmly planted in Homelander’s pro-Supe America, and things are getting more dangerous by the day, with the Supes no longer playing by the rules, and everyone is prey for their amusement. Throw in a dangerous new conspiracy, and secrets from the past, and things are starting to get all kinds of manic on campus. And this is exactly what the fans have been wanting.
Gen V, like The Boys, knows when to turn things up, and just when you think you’ve got this whole thing figured out, Fazekas and Butters throw the switch, and chaos ensues. None of our characters are perfect, but in Season Two, we get to see even more of their demons let loose, and as the series ramps up, it gets dramatic and hella messy. And MESSY is the word, being this is Gen V, there’s no filter for the gore, wearing or downright perversity of the Supe world, and there’s some seriously gnarly stuff that will make you wince, sigh, screech and go what-the-fuck all in one sitting. The showrunners and cast know what their fans want, and man, do they deliver!
One of the most intriguing aspects of the new series is a throwback to the founding of Godolkin University and its founder, Dr. Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), and a sinister secret project known only as PROJECT ODESSA. This provides for an utter surprise that will completely take audiences by surprise and leads into the series’ new antagonist, Dean Cipher (Hamish Linklater). A mysterious Supe with tight ties to Vaught, and who has been personally tasked by Homelander to keep things running at Godolkin University, there’s a quite cunning and sadistic intelligence behind Linklater’s Cipher, and he’s a man who sees all the moves at play, and he’s certainly not to be tampered with. His presence alone will make the hairs in the back of your neck stand up, and things get scary pretty quickly thanks to his savage and sadistic experiments on his subjects… I mean students.
Gen V is a series that utterly stands on its own in relation to narrative and action, and it’s again crazy to see our current real world, and all of its political strife, reflected back at us on screen. Satirical and horrifying in equal measure, Gen V is sure to get a rise out of audiences, and they won’t be ready for what awaits in this crazy second chapter that is setting the stage for the final season of The Boys… and it’s going to get loco FAST!
Season Two of Gen V is now streaming on Prime Video.
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