Gen V carries on many of The Boys franchise's long-held traditions, with the spin-off series doubling down on one of the show's grossest trends.
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Gen V episode 4!
Summary
- Gen V, the spin-off series of The Boys, has taken the franchise's obsession with male genitalia to a new level, featuring gratuitous and frequent penis-centric scenes.
- The Boys and Gen V continuously push the boundaries of grossness, with Gen V surpassing its predecessor in terms of shock value and explicit content.
- The Boys and Gen V are challenging the traditional TV nudity trend by prominently featuring male nudity, sparking conversations about the impact and potential change in nudity representation.
Gen V is a pretty weird show, and the spin-off series has confirmed that The Boys franchise has one very specific unhealthy obsession. Many aspects of The Boys franchise are designed to shock audiences, with profanity, sexual content, and hyper-gory violence being prevalent throughout all three seasons of The Boys as well as its two spin-off shows. This R-rated content has turned The Boys into a show that constantly tests the line of what is acceptable, with most of the show's water cooler moments having to do with gross scenes rather than story beats. However, Gen V has seriously doubled down on one strange aspect of The Boys.
Gen V is finally out, with the highly-anticipated spin-off of Amazon Prime Video's The Boys currently in the midst of releasing season 1. Gen V looks at the world of The Boys from a new angle, with the series this time focusing on a Vought-run college for supes known as Godolkin University. The series follows Marie Moreau, a young blood-bender who gets the opportunity to attend the prestigious university. Upon arriving, however, Marie gets pulled into the sex and drug-fueled world of Godolkin, with Gen V using the college setting as an excuse to show off all kinds of R-rated superhero shenanigans.
Gen V Makes The Boys' Male Genitalia Obsession Much Worse
The Boys has always had an obsession with male genitalia, but Gen V has somehow managed to make this trend much worse. Penises are ever-present throughout The Boys, with many episodes of the show seeming like nothing more than an excuse to show off as much gratuitous male nudity as possible. These moments are often hilarious, but two penis-centric moments in The Boys really stand out. The Love Sausage fight and Termite's season 3 sex scene are two of the most iconic moments in The Boys, as they mix superpowers with sex. Initially, mixing powers and penises seemed like something The Boys sparingly sprinkled throughout the series.
While these superpowered penis moments were few and far between, Gen V has made them much more common. The very first episode of Gen V features an odd scene in which Emma shrinks down and hangs off the end of a college student's penis. The scale of the scene means that most of the frame is taken up by the guy's genitals, with it being even weirder than The Boys scenes that came before it. Episode 4 doubled down on this, with it featuring a scene in which Marie uses her powers to inflate a psychic's penis by rushing blood into it until it explodes.
Gen V Proves The Boys Still Hasn't Found Its Grossness Ceiling
While The Boys and Gen V feature scenes that are more shocking than almost anything that has been seen on television, the spin-off show is proving that the franchise still hasn't found its grossness ceiling. Initially, Love Sausage was the grossest thing in The Boys, but almost nobody talked about him after Termite's season 3 scene dropped. Now, Gen V has already featured two scenes that outdo anything from The Boys, with the series constantly raising the stakes of how nasty its superpowered penis scenes can be. Besides just sexual content, the constant use of gore and various fluids makes The Boys franchise even grosser.
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Gen V follows the students of Godolkin University, and it introduces many new Supes whose powers range from almost useless to super strong.The fact that Gen V is still outdoing itself in the fifth overall season of The Boys franchise shows that the writers are nowhere near giving up, as they are continuously finding the line and crossing it. Every season of The Boys has been worse than what came before, with the grossness always getting turned up a notch. Now that The Boys is an established franchise, the writers don't have to worry about scaring off fans, meaning that they can still elevate the level of grossness whenever the chance is given. It seems likely that The Boys season 4 or Gen V season 2 will also outdo what came before.
The Boys Is Finally Flipping A TV Nudity Trend
While the nudity in The Boys is notable for how weird it is, the franchise is actually flipping a TV nudity trend. For the longest time, TV nudity has been mostly female-centric, with many shows showing off female nudity while refraining from showing male nudity. The Boys and Gen V are taking this trend in the opposite direction. While female nudity is still present, male nudity is at the forefront of many of The Boys franchise's most iconic scenes, with it far outweighing female nudity. This has been the subject of a lot of conversation surrounding the show's impact, with The Boys' and Gen V's nudity trend possibly changing everything.
New episodes of Gen V release Fridays on Amazon Prime Video.
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