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- Sep 29, 2023
- Prime Video
- Sep 29, 2023
- Prime Video
- Sep 29, 2023
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Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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79% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
21% Mixed
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0% Negative
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You’ll laugh out loud, wince often, and wonder how Gen V gets away with half of what’s displayed – which is my way of recommending this brilliantly batshit show to anyone who will listen.
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.”
“Gen V” is a fun and biting coming-of-age drama—it just happens to be full of superheroes.
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.
There’s a looseness to “Gen V” in the early going that clangs with its youthful urgency, and this exacerbates the effect of the symmetry the show shares with “The Boys.”
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.
Gen V constantly resorts to icky humor for fear of losing our attention. Despite its flash, its swaggers of confidence, this is a curiously self-conscious, uncomfortable show, forever offsetting its earnestness as if needing to prove its coolness.
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