Gen V S1 ★★☆☆☆

Starts of fairly insufferable with the attempts at social media satire, finds its feet after a while, and then suddenly just swerves in the last few episodes to being much more of a direct extension of The Boys and throws out a lot of characterisation in favour of feeding into the political division plot of its parent show.

Speaking of The Boys, Edgar’s comments on Vought being a pharmaceutical company, not a superhero company was a good moment but becomes increasingly nonsensical as the show goes on and Vought starts seeming like it makes up half of the American economy. They own the television ecosystem, they own the news, they own their own university and it’s all centred on superheroes. Several supes also having children with the same powers as them also seems weird in light of how big of a deal Ryan was made out to be.