Gen V
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Our Review
The Boys offshoot that earns its own identity: Godolkin University, the superhero college where supes train for the Seven’s spotlight, and Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), a blood controller freshman, discovers the school’s secret: the Woods, the underground facility where the university experiments on students who don’t fit the brand. The show is the parent show’s satire turned to campus politics: fraternities as brand incubators, the ranking system as social media, ambition as blood sport.
The cast (especially Emma Meyer, the size shifter whose power costs her body mass, the show’s best metaphor and best performance) is excellent, and the cameos tie it to the mothership without leaning on it. Season 2 continues the experiment. The college years of the Boys universe, with its own teeth.
Verdict: Watch it, the rare offshoot that would work even if the parent didn’t exist.
