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Critic Reviews
Sep 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
As many superhero stories as there currently are these days, “superheroes in college” feels like an untapped opportunity. However, while the series’s connections to its parent show may limit its audience, creatively it’s an exciting proposition, and it’s fun to discover just how much mayhem Gen V can deliver.
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Oct 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The crime-fighting superheroes are always also entertainers. The division is interesting, and I think there are places the show can go with it that could surprise us. .... Of course it’s melodramatic. But it’s also really fun and deals with some hotbed topics in interesting ways.
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Oct 2, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Like “The Boys,” “Gen V” may be too much for those who prefer the comparatively clean-cut superheroes of Marvel blockbusters. There are seriously bent sex scenes, and the violence is next level. But for the rest of us, it’s a wonderfully warped alternative to your friendly neighborhood superhero tale.
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Sep 28, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The “Gen V” premiere has the most shocks while subsequent episodes deepen the character backstories and the show’s mystery. It’s engrossing enough thanks to the efforts of showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, veterans of genre series “Agent Carter,” “Reaper” and “Resurrection.”
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SlashfilmSep 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Fans of "The Boys" will get a fun, mostly self-contained story that fleshes out this big, seedy universe even more; newcomers will get a dark superhero boarding school story centered around a captivating small-scale conspiracy. Whether you're a fan of "The Boys" or you just like superhero stories in general, "Gen V" is definitely worth your time.
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The Mercury NewsOct 4, 2023
Sep 29, 2023
Sep 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Gen V fully leans into the chaos that a world filled with supercharged adolescents would experience and the result is a series that’s constantly surprising and devilishly entertaining. But it also makes sure to give us real characters to care about amid all this carnage.
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Sep 29, 2023
Season 1 Review:
As with all such adventures, the company matters most, and luckily spending time with this cast of relative unknowns is a pleasant cinch. Sinclair ably anchors the ensemble, but Broadway seasons this stew of drama and human offal with her comedic presence and her profound tenderness when a development calls for accessing a fully operational conscience and a kind heart.
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Sep 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There’s no single performance as likely to earn accolades as Antony Starr’s ultra-intense take on Homelander, but the cast of relative newcomers is generally sturdy. If the series becomes frustratingly rushed as it progresses, within that rush and those choppy narrative choices, I kept finding enough moments of giddy inspiration to be entertained and sometimes more than that.
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Sep 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Everyone is miserable, every potential bright spot is cut off by an even worse disaster, everyone gets covered in blood. At a certain point you have to respect the commitment to the bit, but it's important to remember you can make cutting commentary about corporate pop culture while still having some fun.
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SlashfilmSep 15, 2025
Season 2 Review:
"Gen V" does just enough to provide thrills and twists galore to keep its core audience happy, including one heck of a killer finale that helps redeem much of the lower points of the season — even if it ultimately feels like yet another bridge to the next season of "The Boys," when all's said and done.
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Sep 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Youth is apt to go to extremes. Super youth, by logical extension, will go to super extremes. And an eight-part series about super youth may very well be a riot of extremes. Such is the case with very violent, excessively bloody, hyper-sexualized “Gen V,” which is quite ridiculous, but can’t really be dismissed. Why? Because it is enough of a social critique, however fuzzy and smart-alecky, to hint at intelligence behind the sensationalism.
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Sep 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There’s a lot to like about Gen V, with one standout action sequence as inspired and inventive as it is undeniably hilarious for reasons we won’t spoil here, but it nonetheless constantly feels as though that special intangible something that made The Boys what it is has been found sorely wanting.
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