Gen V Season 2 (blu-ray TV series review).
The main problem with ‘Gen V’, as with season 1, is remembering who everyone is. Usually, it’s easier to remember them by their powers than names, although they have worked harder this season to identify the key leads. At least there has been some effort to make the names stick this time, but it’s a big cast. There’s also a new dean called Cypher, whose powers could be anything, at Godolkin University. The three surviving students from the massacre from the previous season are still around.
Maria, the girl who manipulates blood, has made her way in the outside world but is having problems with surviving, being mostly careful except for a couple instances. The other two are back in the uni and used as examples that they did the right thing to stop a genocide. Cypher wants Maria back in the uni, so she is finally convinced to return by her friends when they look for her.
I hope no one uses university life here as an example of how American education is carried out. Well, it might be worse, unless the dean decides to use you as cannon fodder while seeking the superior superbeing. As it is, Maria is forced to practise or risk her friends being killed. Like there isn’t any pressure.
It doesn’t help matters that they decide to rescue the brain-damaged Cate Dunlap from imprisonment, and they get captured, and a cancelling choker is put around their necks to inhibit their powers, and they get drawn into another underground network.
The thing is, from then on, it’s all spoiler. I mean, serious spoiler, but it’s a beautiful twist that you won’t see coming but makes the last two episodes really superb. One can only hope that a third season will be produced to reveal what happens next. Based on my research about the release date of the next season of ‘The Boys,’ I suspect it might be available on that platform.
In many respects, having the supers confined to one university can also be seen as a useful confinement, but you do have to wonder just how many there are in the USA. As their abilities are mostly given when their parents were naïve enough to get on that particular drug programme, I guess the corporations know how many are out there. Just be careful not to annoy any of them.
GF Willmetts
December 2025
(pub: Prime Video Entertainment, 2025. 2 blu-ray disks, 8 * 50 minute episodes. Price: varies. ASIN: 83929-85601).
