The Reel Rejects - GEN V EPISODE 2 REVIEW!! The Boys Spin Off | 1x2 Breakdown, Reaction, & Ending Explained

Starting point is 00:00:00 All righty, students of the Reject Nation, moving right along into season one, episode two of GenV. First Day is the title of this one. As always, Koi, Greg, myself, giving our immediate thoughts as the episode is ending. And, hey, if you want to join us for the actual viewing experience, you can check out the reaction highlights over on YouTube.com slash the Rio Rejects. You can check out the full lengths. Watch along. You'll sync up with your own copy. That's available over at patreon.com.

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Starting point is 00:00:50 all right. Kate, Kate. So, Kate! She's got it. This is a very good show. yeah it is yeah this thing go hard yeah man that was really good yeah so soothing so comforting i'm on the side guys yeah no no no i think um they created them so they're particularly the property and pressure you know creates diamonds you want to compound

Starting point is 00:01:28 that in this country you got to embrace capital is gonna lean in just get stronger or else complain about it or we can use your complaints to just make more money where are those bootstraps you're pulling up from come on get after it it's like the boys great commentary for a show that amazon gets to greatly profit from guys oh they win because they're like yeah they can just punch whoever they're just punching and profit just punch you want to make fun of this the writers really win the strike They fought for, what, 0.08% of income? Who gets the other 90% of profit off of us to see in this commentary?

Starting point is 00:02:06 Bezos. That's what I'm talking about. Who's demonetizing this video? A big corporation. One of the biggest, in fact. John, what do you think? I am gripped continually by the series. It's, yeah, this fascinating blend of, you know, all the shock and schlock that you're used to from the boys.

Starting point is 00:02:26 But, yeah, as you guys have both pointed out. out with a greater sense of melancholy being lost in this world and being caught up in yeah just these systems that feel so much bigger than you and they're really great at like even though the boys also has that in that you know you think you're all you're part of the seven you made it you know you're going to be a big fish in a small pond or whatever you know this feels exponentially more you know coy pond uh yeah and just yeah the the messiness of the choices i is really compelling maddening at times but in a good way in a dramatic way and and yeah i it's hard to watch a show like this in some aspects because you sit here and you and dear toward

Starting point is 00:03:08 characters and and it it's always a sign of something that's working when it breaks your heart when people you know make the wrong choice go with the selfish option or you know cover something up when they should just be vulnerable about it and to watch as you know all these predators descend upon these poor kids who are just trying to do right and find their lot in the world yeah I'm quite compelled what did you guys thank

Starting point is 00:03:35 I'm sure Coy has like a minute of thoughts take it away Coy with your your brevity what I'm known for I really love how the characters that have had like the least amount of screen time keep pulling me towards them like the character played by London Thor

Starting point is 00:03:52 the Jordan Lee I think the name was I'm so curious whether they become a villain whether they like find some sort of justice whether they like get to actualize or not and I really like that the show is able to juggle like eight leads and I'm still curious about people that have only had a few minutes of screen time and I think that's really great world building

Starting point is 00:04:10 because it'd be easy for a show to give you a seven and to give you a certain amount of leads and the first episode the or but this one I you know what didn't expect to lose the lead golden boy literally the golden boy in the first episode and I really didn't expect this to take so many turns to bolster

Starting point is 00:04:28 not even the characters we've had at like tier two but like the three and four every time we cut to one of those characters I'm so curious and the way it's building out the world isn't just improving on the boys but it's actually improving on this show in real time like the idea of you mentioned

Starting point is 00:04:44 like the origin of someone that would be susceptible to the seven like it's building out that world again the cleverer you're the bedrocks of all of our it's really we're going to point out what Greg said I'm going to pretend it's our ideas. And I'm not even extrapolate. I'm just going to repeat it with new words because of my brevity.

Starting point is 00:05:01 What do I think, Greg? Greg, when you cleaned up that dead body. No, but I love that it's not only... Literally. But I mentioned the first episode. It's kind of like punching at everyone's like worldview. And I think that's really important to have a show that satirizes our world from multiple pronged attacks. So the boys is very good at attacking politically and capitalism and all those things.

Starting point is 00:05:23 but this is coming at like parenting and trauma and the way people like abuse therapy and like the way it's doing drug commentary, bulimia commentary, cutting commentary, what it's like to come up in a world that feels so big and this world is actually big. So what I love about comic books is they're at an 11. So if you have a morality story, it feels larger than life. So it actually feels more approachable. The reason I've always loved comic books is I've never identified with religion because I've, I personally always considered religion a fiction, just my belief.

Starting point is 00:05:52 but with the greatest comic book ever Jesus is such a superhero for that world but with me seeing it as fiction I've always liked that these morality stories I know are written by people to shape a fiction to improve the worlds to improve our morality to make us better but when you make it so big

Starting point is 00:06:08 it feels oddly more approachable because you're like well if they can do this large in the life thing I can do this thing and this show is addressing that side of superhero lore where it's where it's Peter Parker having to overcome this bully and you know that he's trying to not use his powers and this is these kids, you know, dealing with bulimia and cutting and these things

Starting point is 00:06:26 that so many people deal with and trauma and depression and anxiety and wanting to fit in, but since it's set in a superhero world, it's more approachable than just a CW teen show. So whereas the first episode gave me this great world that I was like, oh, this is a great gap show between the boys and I love these characters. I'm impressed. This is almost like this is hitting a different target demo, a different generation, it might bring them into the boys and it gives us, I joked, but like a year of the boys, we get 10 weeks of this we get the other show and the whole time it's not the same audience it's not the same

Starting point is 00:06:56 goal it's not trying to tell the same story and i you know people get sick of me talking about comics but that's why i love them is there's so many different versions like when you read the avengers that's different than justice league when you read spider man it's different than superman or batman because there's so many different ways to tell that story and this is doing the do you like superman or do you like batman with the boys who do like gen v and i'm just so impressed it i it's great it is a very impressive show it is very very impressive uh they deal with a lot of sensitive issues more sensitive i think than what the boys like like again the boys i think is very is very clever and here this feels more personal because it feels more intimate because like when you look at the

Starting point is 00:07:38 boys you're cutting around in many different characters in many different locations where here this is mainly an on-campus experience a very intimate experience with these guys who are all in the same hub so i love the ensemble and it really does shine a light on like especially with that influencer moment of when they were exposing the bulimia moment of it of uh and like how people feign pain and um and and and exploit others in a way of posturing help. Yeah, like virtue signaling is a buzzword that's used wrong, but that's virtue signaling.

Starting point is 00:08:21 Like, I think it's great to address that. Like, I haven't read the comments yet on what I said last week, but people will be like, oh, Corey doesn't like when they punch them, but I think it's really important to address people using progressive ideology as a weapon. And I think it's important to show, like, social justice being used negatively because it's pandering for these companies for some people. And I love that they,

Starting point is 00:08:41 It just feels a part of the characters, but everyone has a new one. No one has like a villainous term where it's just mustache twirling. You know, even with the girl when she was caught on her bullshit, she, you know, they do stay with her for a little bit like, oh, damn, I messed up. Yeah. When it's like, whatever, you knew what you were doing. And even Golden Boy, like we got his life.

Starting point is 00:09:01 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you get that with Golden Boy. My one concern, like, I love the idea because I think they wanted you to kind of think a starlight, like what it was something i was saying in the first episode of like yeah there are qualities of her that kind of remind you a starlight um but you could still feel shade it's something different and then here they even make the comment of like here's where she becomes black starlight or not right yeah and i guess my one concern is the trope but it might but then i'm like oh but it could be a commentary on how we've been getting like a like a wanda you know like a villainous

Starting point is 00:09:37 turn from hero to villain like here's how you could really do it in a way like I know you like I really love Wanda and multiverse of madness but I do agree with you on the thing you've often complained about is that gap of a transition from Wanda vision yeah and here you get to witness that

Starting point is 00:09:52 via the traumatic experience and how that's taking advantage of I mean you could draw some solid scarlet which parallels the red she was wearing but the way they take are who's the transgender character Jordan Lee the woman's played by London Thorho. I went to

Starting point is 00:10:08 acting school with. That's why I kept accidentally called London. And the characters called Jordan Lee? Yeah, the character is Jordan Lee. So Jordan Lee and the way they've introduced Jordan Lee and the way they introduced even everyone's name. John? Polarity. Filar?

Starting point is 00:10:25 Andre. Yeah, Andre Anderson. Yeah, you're right. The way they've introduced Jordan and Andre even at first you're like, are they going to be the bad guy? Right. Right. And then As this show is progressing, you're seeing this flip rule already within the second episode where Marie is going down a darker path.

Starting point is 00:10:45 And Andre, you're like, oh, maybe he's actually the protagonist? Yeah, he sacrificed things and she's getting more isolated and vengeful. Yeah. And then Jordan is somewhere you're like, oh, I don't see Jordan is villainous at all, actually, when they kind of set them up to be that way in the first episode. So I think the way they play with expectations versus whatever realities are unfolding is really well done. I think the one thing semi-working against the show right now, and granted, we still got one more episode to go before, because it seemed pretty intentional whenever they decided to release three.

Starting point is 00:11:19 Yeah. I know they did that for season two was the first time they did it, and it took, it was like, yeah, you need the first three. They did that for season three when I didn't feel like they needed it. No, and I think this could have ended here and just done two. I think honestly, I think one was fine. You could just end it on one, but you are... It's a new property.

Starting point is 00:11:39 Exactly. So I think there is a justification to do three. So before forming an opinion on it. I'm very casually interested in the mystery of the woods and stuff. I think we've just had such bigger, you know, mysteries to unpack via compound V and other things that we've done where this does feel like, the most teen mystery drama thing they are unpacking the boys Riverdale Wednesday you know there's

Starting point is 00:12:15 definitely some Wednesday it's a basement it's got it's got that quality to it where yeah I like how it's imbued in the character development of it yeah it's not some nefarious clandestine thing it's about his brother being there it's not like we heard there's bad guys in the basement yeah that would be very cheesy CW instead it's like my brother's trapped in the

Starting point is 00:12:35 So, cause my death. Right now, I'm waiting to see if that becomes more compelling, I'd say. Because right now that's, weirdly, I find everything else super interesting. And that's the one part that we keep cutting back to that up. I don't find myself itching it. What's going on there? I'm hoping the next episode puts it, because I'm at like a seven with the mystery and I'm at like a nine and a half ten with all the people. Yeah, it's funny.

Starting point is 00:12:56 You brought it up and I was like, yeah, I'm so invested in just the characters and this immediate journey that like, yeah, the woods. I'm kind of like is at the back of my mind. Yeah, because like the guy that was running, it's dead. The guy that it affected is dead. So it's like, I don't really care about it. I want to stay with these live people. Well, and you know that there are things like this lurking and there's going to be some kind of shadowy truth that's being hit.

Starting point is 00:13:19 Like, we know that about this world now. And Brink is like, you know, our vaught here. But I love that vaught is the big overarching eagle, evil. And I think we're going to see those things come into play in the next episode. And I honestly think there's going to be like a cliffhanger, maybe bigger than this. That would be why they did three. Oh, yeah, you got it.

Starting point is 00:13:34 But I, man, I love that this is going to be weekly because people will be talking about it. But I do kind of wish it was just Wonders. Yeah, I don't feel like the show is going to pop off right away. But I think like the boys, season one, I think it has an opportunity to really, I think the word of mouth on this is going to be phenomenal. It's so good. And, I mean, I know you both were trepidacious and you weren't, you know, weren't against it. Yeah, like, it was just like, it's fine. And I was really excited.

Starting point is 00:13:58 So I love that it exceeded expectations in two directions where I. If they just put Homelander on the thumbnails for the trailers, then I would have been watching. Is that not what we're going to do? Yeah, every thumbnail. Homelander Easter. There were frames of Homelanders. They could put authentically in this.

Starting point is 00:14:13 Guys, we got to be the enemy that we're watching a commentary on in order to profit off the enemies that pay for this thing while we watch it on the enemies network. It's part of it, you guys. The evil that is YouTube, only extrapolated by the evil that is Amazon that we were consuming and then putting it on for you. Capital isn't a play here. It's just, it trickles down. The Nancy Reagan joke, maybe my favorite joke in the boys' history.

Starting point is 00:14:33 There was a Nancy Reagan BJ joke that was the perfect. It was plot driven. It furthered the narrative. It was exactly my kind of humor. And F. Reaganism. I love that. I'm so happy. Whoa.

Starting point is 00:14:45 Whoa. We need to play middle up the aisle. We need to attract it. I did. It's clearly a lot-leaning show. Episode one, I said something slightly anti-left. So this week I'm coming at Reagan. This is my hero.

Starting point is 00:15:00 I'm gonna change it every week yeah I'll be like Jordan Lee switching there you go you heard me yeah all right be fun to add it Greg oh the reviews are just uncut like oh I I made a note to mute yeah the number words the letter B so oh really yeah I make mental notes all the time when we watch things uh all righty guys I wonder if you'd have to be uncut if you had like dense skin enough that could be on fire I wonder if he didn't have an option golden boy so you should said it was uncut. All right. Let's pack that real quick.

Starting point is 00:15:35 Could he be, sir? We're going to take a little breather. Do golden boy have a brist or not? We might change clothes. All right. Well, thank you for being here. We'll see you guys soon. Mark Leach.

Starting point is 00:15:51 Yes. Mark. Oh, you're in for it, Mark. It's time for a chat GP shout out. All right, John. Yes. some categories here okay give me your favorite movie character uh any movie james bond james bond perfect all right give me your favorite um beach uh manhattan manhattan beach

Starting point is 00:16:19 uh who's your favorite uh movie or tv show monster um the baba duke i guess the baba duke okay uh Give me a year. 1957. 1957. All right. Give me a pronoun. They. All right.

Starting point is 00:16:44 Give me a superlistic. Uh, uh, uh, stupidest. Stupidest. Give me a year. hero weapon um boomerang boomerang okay uh a religion uh oh uh how is about scientology Scientology okay a type of transportation skateboard skateboard okay and um an occupation um a bodybuilder body builder body builder all right sweet all right mark all right Greg's going to enter the magic words okay

Starting point is 00:17:38 all right um let me just uh oh wait no i can't do that i got retype it okay you can't double copy yeah i have a youtube channel all right where i need to shout out a patron his name is mark leach yes we call our patrons super sexy rejects write me a shout out um in under let's say 60 words in the genre who spice it up yes in the genre of what was going to be a genre uh fantasy romance in the in the row in the in the in the genre of a romance but incorporate all of these words oh oh i'm so excited here we go here we go sending sultry thanks to our super sexy reject mark leech imagine james Bond, skateboarding through 1957 Manhattan with

Starting point is 00:18:50 a boomerang, encountering the mysterious Babadook, Mark, they say it's the stupidest most enchanting dance of Scientology meets bodybuilder romance ever witnessed. Your support is more

Starting point is 00:19:06 thrilling than a spy mission and for that our hearts swoon for you. Oh my God, no human could create something this good. The machine understands, stands a romance mark does I'm touched right now and I feel like we've

Starting point is 00:19:22 grown closer together just as a unit you know yeah as a as a polyamorous relationship I think we're all going to make it and it's all thanks to chat GPT but more so thanks to you Mark Leach thank you for being here thank you for all of your many

Starting point is 00:19:38 months of unrequited love catch you soon catch you soon bud bud bud bud Thank you.

The Reel Rejects - GEN V EPISODE 2 REVIEW!! The Boys Spin Off | 1x2 Breakdown, Reaction, & Ending Explained

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