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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Sarah Dempster

Gen V review – the male full-frontal really is gratuitous

Lizze Broadway as Emma Meyer in season two of Gen V.
Stitched up … Lizze Broadway as Emma Meyer in season two of Gen V. Photograph: Jasper Savage/Prime

Two years after we last joined its troubled teens in their battle against the forces of corporate tyranny, superhero drama Gen V is back for a second series of powerfully bawdy chaos. Release the penis-shaped balloons! Uncork the Château les Norks! But for pity’s sake conduct your celebrations quietly: Godolkin University’s clipboard-clutching new dean is in no mood for frivolity.

“Let’s be real,” he drawls during his inaugural campus address. “The previous human administration was full of shit. We can’t trust humankind. And that is why, as your new dean, I will be preparing you for this brave new world,” he continues, as the assembled superheroes-in-training – or “supes”, as they’re called – variously gulp, whoop and clench their bum cheeks.

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