It is easy to roll your eyes at the idea of Amazon trying to form the “VCU,” the Vought Cinematic Universe spawned out of its hit, The Boys, now with one spin-off, Gen V, and potentially others to come.
trying to form the “VCU,” the Vought Cinematic Universe spawned out of its hit, The Boys, now with one spin-off, Gen V, and potentially others to come.
Fortunately for them, and all of us, Gen V is not a bad cash-in on the original. In fact, judging by these early episodes, it may actually be even more compelling than The Boys itself. At least that’s how I felt at the end of this three episode intro. Gen V follows a group of college students attending “God U,” a place to train superheroes into either potential Seven contenders, or to instead play for the cameras in Vought’s media arm. As we learned from The Boys itself, these kids all have parents who injected them with Gen V as kids to give them powers, and as such, yes, plenty of parental issues abound, and it’s practically the main focus of the series.
While the series is just as bloody and raunchy as The Boys, if not more so, it also has what I would consider more of a heart at its core, as the central group of students are all “good guys” rather than The Boys focusing so heavily on its villains, namely, of course, Homelander. Jaz Sinclair is Marie, the lead, who has blood powers that manifested out of nowhere during puberty. Patrick Schwarzenegger is Golden Boy, top ranked collegiate hero sailing toward one of The Seven’s empty spots with his fiery powers. We have metal-bending, mind-control, shrinking and a host of new powers we haven’t seen in the series yet.
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