Being a freshman can be hell, but this teaser for Gen V, the spinoff of The Boys, takes it to a new level—one with exploding genitals, puppet murder, and gallons upon gallons of blood. Welcome to Godolkin University, kids!
It’s sort of hilarious that Prime opted not to just bleep the various bits of swearing in this trailer, but to take the sound out entirely, so that Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) just says “I exploded his [silence]!” You get the drift, though.
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Marie stands a chance of being the first top-ranked freshman in the history of Godolkin University, or so an administrator tells her. She’s got bigger goals: “I think you meant to say first Black woman in the Seven,” she replies. But this place is, shall we say, highly competitive, and presumably every other freshman also wants to be top-ranked.
Here’s Amazon’s summary:
From the world of The Boys comes Gen V, which explores the training of the first generation of superheroes to know about Compound V, and that their powers were injected into them, rather than God-given. These young, competitive heroes put their physical and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the school’s highly coveted top ranking. They quickly come to learn that ambition comes with sacrifice, and the difference between right and wrong is not as clear as they once believed. When the university’s dark secrets come to light, the students must come to grips with what type of heroes they are going to become.
Marie’s classmates include Chance Perdomo (with whom Sinclair starred in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as metal-manipulating Andrew Anderson; Patrick Schwarzenegger as Golden Boy (fire!); Lizze Broadway as a supe who can change size; and London Thor and Derek Luh as a supe who Entertainment Weekly says “can swap genders at will.”
Gen V comes from creator Eric Kripke and showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, and has a three-episode premiere on September 29th on Prime.
