Gen V
Introduction:
Based on the “We Gotta Go Now” comic book story arc by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson for The Boys, Gen V is an American superhero television series developed by Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, and Eric Kripke. Kripke describes Gen V as a spin-off of The Boys. Leading parts in Gen V are played by Shelley Conn, Derek Luh, Asa Germann, Maddie Phillips, Chance Perdomo, Lizze Broadway, Jaz Sinclair, and London Thor.
The first season of Gen V, which is The Boys’ third television series, runs concurrently with The Boys’ fourth season. Gen V debuted on September 29, 2023, on Amazon Prime Video. Gen V has gotten mixed reviews for writing and pacing, but overall reviews have been positive, praising the show’s characters, humour, plot, and cast performances (especially Sinclair, Broadway, Phillips, and Germann). Still, a lot of reviewers thought Gen V was a good follow-up to its predecessor.
Gen V received a second season renewal in October 2023, less than a month after its debut.
Cast:
Storyline:
Episode 1:
When Marie Moreau had her first period eight years earlier, she unintentionally killed her parents, which strained her connection with her younger sister Annabeth. This is when Marie Moreau’s hemokinesis first appeared. Marie is admitted to Godolkin University in the present, a school dedicated to preparing aspiring superheroes (or “supes”).
In addition to becoming friends with upperclassmen Andre Anderson, Luke Riordan, Jordan Li, and Cate Dunlap, Marie also makes friends with her roommate Emma Meyer on her first day. Marie uses her magnetism manipulation skills to stop a woman from bleeding out when she is at a party and Andre injures her by accident.
Professor Richard “Brink” Brinkerhoff expels Marie despite her increasing social media following to preserve the prestige of the upperclassmen. Upon her subsequent visit to Brink’s office to confront him, she discovers that Luke has murdered him. Luke goes crazy and tries to kill Marie, but Jordan and Andre stop him. Before using his pyrokinesis to end his life, Luke talks to Andre while he settles down.
Episode 2:
While Marie receives all the glory for stopping Luke and breaks into Godolkin University’s top 10 rankings as a freshman, Vought International conceals the deaths of Luke and Brink. As Emma gets to know university dean Indira Shetty, who gives her advice, she also makes friends with Justine Garcia, a classmate who discovers the secret to Emma’s size-shifting abilities and shares it online with the world. Emma approaches Justine in a rage.
A covert video that suggests Luke’s younger brother Sam is being detained in a facility known as “the Woods,” which is covertly administered by Shetty, is discovered by Andre and Cate as they begin an investigation into Luke’s death. Andre leaves to look for information in Brink’s workplace. Marie withholds Jordan’s role in Luke’s suicide during a broadcast interview after learning that Vought approached Annabeth, who does not want to be associated with her. After finding the Woods, Andre almost gets caught by school security, but Cate steps in to save him.
Episode 3:
Sam is furious to hear that Luke and Cate’s powers originated from Compound V and that they killed a security guard three years before. However, Sam is eventually calmed down by Luke and Cate. In the present, Andre and Cate talk about their discoveries, and she persuades him to not put his life in danger as they engage in sexual activity. In the meantime, Emma is exhausted when Marie finds her in her dorm room.
They argue as she tries to offer advice to the latter. Marie receives an invitation from Shetty to attend a fundraising banquet in honour of Brink the following day. Emma’s mother tries to get her to participate in a reality show, but Emma says no. Later, Emma and Marie get together to make amends. Emma is persuaded by Andre to spy on him in the woods. Sam is incapacitated by the security officers who put the facility on alert while Emma uses her skills to hide. Emma manages to find Sam and speak with him.
Episode 4:
After getting better, Sam kills the guards and makes off with Emma. Delusional, Sam declares he intends to assassinate Dr. Edison Cardosa, a psychotherapist he once worked with, while holed up in an abandoned drive-thru. Emma goes back to Godolkin University to alert the others. Marie attempts to persuade Rufus, a psychic student, to assist in finding Emma in the meantime, but she passes out and wakes up in his bedroom. Marie explodes Rufus’s penis when Jordan steps in.
Meanwhile, supermodel Robert Vernon, also known as Tek Knight, visits Godolkin University to film a segment for his Vought+ series The Whole Truth. In the process, he subtly frames a defenceless student for Luke’s suicide on Vought’s behalf. He coerces Marie into disclosing Jordan’s role in Luke’s suicide while using his observational abilities to question classmates violently. Vernon plans to frame Shetty after discovering Sam got out of the Woods while she was watching, but she threatens to reveal his irrational appetite. After Sam is eventually subdued by Marie, Emma, Andre, Jordan, and Cate, Marie blacks out again and wakes up in Jordan’s bed.
Episode 5:
After waking up, Marie and her pals discover they are at a party and have no memory of how they got there. Sam encounters Emma and Marie when he’s trying to escape, but they don’t recognize him. Cardosa meets with Shetty to discuss his plan to utilize a virus he created to control powers of Marie, but she won’t be involved.
After leading Jordan, Andre, and Marie to confront Rufus because he is the cause of their amnesia, Cate loses sight of him as Andre passes out. Though they were made to forget about Sam, Emma discovers that she and Marie already knew him. Marie takes a tracking device off her neck and tells Cate she thinks Shetty and Rufus are to blame for their amnesia as she searches for him. Marie is forced to shift the topic by Cate, who apologizes. Jordan approaches Rufus again after realizing Marie overlooked a recent exchange they had.
When Emma locates Sam, he confesses that Cate is the one responsible, having used her tactile mind control ability to make Luke forget about Sam. To be honest with Jordan and Marie, Emma calls. Just as Andre is about to kill Rufus, a distraught Cate shows up to expose her deceit and help him regain his memories.
Episode 6:
Following the restoration of everyone’s memories, Cate goes into a seizure and inadvertently locks Marie, Jordan, and Andre in her head. “Soldier Boyfriend,” Cate’s imaginary companion, cautions them to leave before she goes into a vegetative state.
Luke uncovers Andre’s deception of Cate during her lifetime by probing Cate’s memories. The group escapes and enters one of Jordan’s memories, where they help Brink get away from an angry Luke and land a job helping him teach. The gang enters Marie’s recollection of her parent’s deaths, where Annabeth accuses her of killing them on purpose, after witnessing a memory of the Riordans being experimented on in the Woods and Cate making Luke forget what happened.
They eventually approach Cate and persuade her to accept accountability for her deeds, which prompts them to awaken. When Sam shows up to confront Cate, Emma calms him down by telling him that Shetty is using him to enhance Luke’s abilities and is also conducting experiments on other kids. Cardosa tests his virus on Betsy, an electrokinetic girl, in the interim, causing her to become ill and lose strength before killing her. Shetty gives him the command to spread the infection after being initially surprised.
Episode 7:
To obtain information for Victoria Neuman, a politician who was at Godolkin University for a town hall meeting, and discover that Homelander was the reason for Shetty’s family’s death in an aircraft disaster, Marie and Jordan break into Shetty’s office. Ignorant of Marie and Jordan hiding behind Shetty’s desk, an intoxicated Cardosa storms into Shetty’s office and starts talking nonstop about his virus.
Colonel Grace Mallory declines Shetty’s request for assistance in spreading the virus worldwide to eradicate all superpowers and instead gives a covert order for someone to keep an eye on Shetty. Andre goes with his father Polarity to the hospital after he has a seizure. Student demonstrators started the “Supes Lives Matter” movement and started a ruckus during the conference.
As they flee, Neuman meets Marie and finds that their upbringings and abilities are comparable. Instead of exposing the Woods, Marie tries to persuade Neuman that she should go for a position of authority that has cultural or political sway. Shetty is killed by Cate after she forces her to divulge the truth about Thomas Godolkin, the man who created the Woods, and her own reasons for inventing the virus. To stop Neuman from telling anyone about the virus, Cardosa meets with him and gives her a sample before killing him.
Episode 8:
Sam and Cate go back to the Woods to rescue the last few hostages before leading them in the murdering of non-Supes throughout the school, while Vought CEO Ashley Barrett meets with Godolkin University’s trustees to discuss how to spin Luke’s death. Marie gets more adept at using her skills as she, Jordan, and Emma try to control the pandemonium.
Sam experiences hallucinations of Luke, who implores him to stop and describes how he died. Sam chooses to disregard Luke and lets Cate take away his capacity for feeling emotions. After acquiring the Polarity mantle to aid in the fight against the raging Superpowers, Andre finds out that Polarity’s seizure was the consequence of brain damage brought on by his abilities.
As Homelander shows in and assaults Marie, accusing her of “attacking [her] own kind,” Cate attempts to brainwash Jordan, but Marie explodes Cate’s arm. At an undisclosed location, Marie, Jordan, Emma, and Andre awaken in a sealed hospital room after a while. They were not aware that Vought had set them up for the attack by Sam and Cate, even though they are praised as the “Guardians of Godolkin”. Billy Butcher explores the remains of the Woods in the mid-credits sequence.
Filming of Gen V:
Craig Rosenberg, along with Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Michaela Starr, Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, Sarah Carbiener, Erica Rosbe, Aisha Porter-Christie, Judalina Neira, and Zak Schwartz, will write and executive produce the spin-off of The Boys, which was announced on September 20, 2020.
Gen V‘s executive producers and showrunners, Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, were appointed by Amazon on September 27, 2021. On October 2, 2020, Kripke revealed that the Hunger Games-inspired series would centre on the G-Men team that was referenced in the first season of The Boys. Gen V is “loosely inspired” by the comic book series “We Gotta Go Now,” which was first produced as a parody of Marvel Comics’ X-Men for the fourth volume of Ennis and Robertson’s comic book series.
The announcement was made on January 5, 2023, that Michele Fazekas, the showrunner since Tara Butters took a leave of absence, will be heading a writing room for a possible second season of Gen V. Gen V received a second season renewal from Amazon Prime Video on October 19, 2023.
With plans to wrap up Gen V in October, filming for The Boys Presents: Varsity got underway in May 2022 at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus and in July at the Claireville Conservation Area in Brampton. Sobeys Stadium and the Stardust Drive-In Movie Theater were used as additional filming sites. The official title of the series was revealed to be Gen V in July 2022. Cast members of Gen V revealed on social media that production had ended in September 2022.
Release Date of Gen V:
The first three episodes of Gen V debuted on September 29, 2023, on Amazon Prime Video. The remaining episodes of Gen V are released one week at a time.
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