{"id":527,"date":"2025-10-22T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=527"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:58:48","slug":"gen-v-s2-amazon-prime-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"<i>Gen V<\/i> S2 (Amazon Prime, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t watch Season 1, you really should go back and watch it. The &#8220;Previously on&#8221; won&#8217;t give the full flavor of what you need.<\/p>\n<p>After having watched S2, I think it is ESSENTIAL for those who are watching <em>The Boys<\/em> to watch before the final season comes out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still coarse and with graphic violence but the hero&#8217;s journey the main (and even peripheral) characters take is interesting TV.<\/p>\n<p>I am impressed that the creators and writers (and actors) have made the show as compelling as it is.\u00a0 The movement of the characters from crass a-hole college students to nascent heroes is probably the weakest link for the show, but I am now very interested to see what happens when <em>The Boys<\/em> airs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Original Short Take for Season 1 (November 3, 2024):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a spinoff in &#8220;The Boys&#8221; universe. For best effect watched between S3 and S4. I watched it after. There&#8217;s an S2 planned. It is worth watching if you like the main show. It&#8217;s coarse and graphic at times but there is some serious commentary and satire in there as well. I assume S2 will come out before S5 of the main show and since I am caught up I will be able to watch everything as it comes out, whenever that ends up being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; If you didn&#8217;t watch Season 1, you really should go back and watch it. The &#8220;Previously on&#8221; won&#8217;t give the full flavor of what you need. After having watched S2, I think it is ESSENTIAL for those who are watching The Boys to watch before the final season comes out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still coarse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Gen V<\/i> S2 (Amazon Prime, 2025)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,36,40],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-action","tag-comics","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}