‘Gen V’ Review: College-Set ‘The Boys’ Spin-Off Is a Delightfully Debauched Romp

The Prime Video drama brings adolescent angst to the paranoid world powered by superhero conglomerate Vought Industries

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Chance Perdomo in "Gen V." (Brooke Palmer/Prime Video)

If you expected “Gen V” to be as subversive, perverse and brilliant as “The Boys,” only more sophomoric, you won’t be disappointed.

Prime Video’s college-set spin-off of TV’s smartest, sickest superhero show brings adolescent angst to the paranoid world powered by the chemical/military/supes entertainment conglomerate, Vought International. The show is centered on young people who were dosed at birth with the company’s extra-human abilities generating Compound V studying at Godolkin University. Everyone calls the place God U, where they either major in crime fighting or brand management.

Extracurricular concerns include social media notoriety, gender dysphoria, lost siblings, cutting, bulimia, suicide and the perennial parents who suck (as do most other adults).

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