'Gen V Season 2' web-series review: This superhero roller-coaster ride is contagious, fun, and pulsating

Cast: Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh, Asa Germann, Sean Patrick Thomas, Hamish Linklater

Showrunner: Michele Fazekas

Language: English

Colleges in cinema are no longer about a boy and a girl and how they meet and fall in love. Hollywood especially has taken giant leaps with superhero sagas and sexually explicit comedies. After the success of The Boys, whose meme went bonkers on social media, we get another show in the same vein called Gen V that has been renewed for season two. Going by the trailer, its ambitions have taken giant leaps as the stakes have gone higher too. The visual effects are gorgeous and gruesome and the conflicts these college kids are thrown into are ghastly but gobsmacking to watch. It’s like a heady cocktail of all possible emotions.

What is the show about?

In the 1960s, Thomas Godolkin learned that some of his colleagues have taken the injections which have not been tested yet. They die of their side effects as Thomas is badly injured. Before he can pull the fire alarm, Thomas succumbed to his injuries.

After the fourth season of The Boys (2024), Marie Moreau (Sinclair) and the rest of her friends return to Godolkin after months of suffering, where a new dean (Linklater) trains Supes to be soldiers. On the brink of war between humans and Supes, the team discovers a program that could change everything.

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First of all, what a kickass idea to make a series about America’s only college for superheroes. These superheroes do not necessarily wear capes but do carry swag right on their sleeves. There are multiple money shots in Gen V Season 2 worth your time and shots that show it has taken both time and tenacity to create what we ultimately witness.

But the question here is- Will the audiences, in India or abroad, ever have the patience to watch a web-series theatrically. This is because such thrilling VFX and pulsating action deserve the big screen and not a laptop or a mobile phone that can never do justice to the adrenaline. The series also makes time for humour in the conversation between students and that Harry Potter reference is a clincher. But what’s the point of laughing alone?

Will the makers be able to make their show a little more coherent and concise and turn it into a film? If there are possibilities of another season, hoping to see it as a film on the big screen. Avengers do need some competition.

Rating: 3 (out of 5 stars)

Gen V Season 2 is now streaming on Prime Video