The BoysspinoffGen Vjust got a major update thanks to series star Chance Perdomo, who confirmed the Amazon Prime Video series has wrapped filming.
The Boyshas been one of Amazon’s biggest streaming hits. Season 3 only just wrapped airing earlier this year, andfilming onThe Boysseason 4is well underway. The series is set in a world in which superheroes are common place but incredibly commercialized commodities who care little for other people, owing to their abilities and high status in society (which keeps them from facing repercussions for their actions).Gen Vwas ordered as a spin-off toThe Boysand is set at a college which takes “supes” and readies them for the superhero market.
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Taking to Instagram to post a picture of himself following a stunt in which his character will presumably be thrown out of a window, Perdomo claimed that filming has wrapped onseason 1 ofThe Boysspinoff. He captioned the post, “That’s a wrap on Gen V. Get ready for Ass-kickin’/Compound-V Drinkin’ Debaucher/ Crashing thru your living rooms…just like this picture.Cheers folks.” Though Perdomo’s role is unknown, thanks to this photo, it’s safe to say that he’ll be part of the action going on inGen V,even as just a hapless bystander.
Perdomo’s post embraces the college-with-superheroes aesthetic the show is going for. The background of the picture shows lawn chairs, red solo cups, and alcohol dotting his surroundings. It looks like fans ofThe Boys are in for another round of supesbehaving badly. The main series is full to the brim of outrageous superheroic antics, andGen Vlooks to be following right in its footsteps.
Gen V’s plot and setting is promising, but its particulars haven’t been explored yet. It’s possible that it will be more episodic than its parent show, whose serialized nature means that the plot is always moving forward. It also hasn’t been made clear how much of an impact the original series will have onGen V. After some world-altering events following its explosiveThe Boysseason 3 finale,Gen Vmay have to deal with the fallout from that, though it’s possible that its characters, being college students, will simply ignore the news.
WithThe Boyshaving achieved great critical and financial success,Gen Vhas a lot to catch up with. But then, that perfectly fits the themes of a college-themed show. This new series will have to find its own identity in order to find its own success, just as college is a time for self-exploration. Time will tell if it works out for the supes onGen V.
Gen Vwill premiere on Amazon Prime in 2023.
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