Gen V Season 2 (blu-ray TV series review)
The main problem with ‘Gen V’, as with season 1, is remembering who everyone is. Most of time, it’s easier to remember them by their powers than names although they have worked harder thus 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 Cipher, 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 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. Cipher 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 the 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 super-being. As it is, Maria is forced to practice or risk her friends being killed. Like there isn’t any pressure.
It doesn’t help matters than they decide to rescue the brain-damaged Cate Dunlap from imprisonment and they get captured and a cancelling chocker is put around their necks to inhibit their powers and get drawn into another underground network.
Thing is, from then on, its 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 there is a third season as to what is going to happen next. From what I’ve read, trying to find out when the next season of ‘The Boys’ is due out, I suspect it might end up there.
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 program, I guess the corporations know how many are out there. Just be careful not to antagonise 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)
