As other 5/6 star reviews have pointed out, you would not watch this IF it were not related to The Boys.
There are many problems that the series creates for itself.
When the writers aim a show at GEN X but fail to understand that an audience has brains, watches better stories on various platforms and really have gone way past gross out moments (e.g visceral, bloody gory kills, unnecessarily gross sexual scenes, mental health treated like a joke etc). It doesn't really provide characters with....humanity. No real grey areas to the characters. Either it's black or white. Oh look what they did to us so I'm gonna go bat **** crazy and kill everyone.
It's stupid.
Whereas The Boys is the same, the end result is a well developed story with well developed characters and motivations. There is empathy within the madness.
In Gen V, they have decided to explore the various aspects of (super)humans that other series don't really go into. In doing so, they simply create cliché plots, with cliché bad guys, good guys, bad women, good women....and that's it.
Characters happen to run into scenes, have time to chat, act woodenly, before fighting.
There is so much better stuff out there that this is only being propped up because of it's links to The Boys.
Watch it. Don't watch it. I don't think you'll learn anything new. It's all really just a Vought money grab.
And because of it's association will probably be no. 1 on Amazon.
If you want to see violence and character development done right.....watch Blue Eye Samurai. Truly does the same job a 100 times better (albeit in Anime form).
There are many problems that the series creates for itself.
When the writers aim a show at GEN X but fail to understand that an audience has brains, watches better stories on various platforms and really have gone way past gross out moments (e.g visceral, bloody gory kills, unnecessarily gross sexual scenes, mental health treated like a joke etc). It doesn't really provide characters with....humanity. No real grey areas to the characters. Either it's black or white. Oh look what they did to us so I'm gonna go bat **** crazy and kill everyone.
It's stupid.
Whereas The Boys is the same, the end result is a well developed story with well developed characters and motivations. There is empathy within the madness.
In Gen V, they have decided to explore the various aspects of (super)humans that other series don't really go into. In doing so, they simply create cliché plots, with cliché bad guys, good guys, bad women, good women....and that's it.
Characters happen to run into scenes, have time to chat, act woodenly, before fighting.
There is so much better stuff out there that this is only being propped up because of it's links to The Boys.
Watch it. Don't watch it. I don't think you'll learn anything new. It's all really just a Vought money grab.
And because of it's association will probably be no. 1 on Amazon.
If you want to see violence and character development done right.....watch Blue Eye Samurai. Truly does the same job a 100 times better (albeit in Anime form).