"Today, as you are inducted into our sacred brotherhood, our legacy, it would do you well to remember our three trinities: wisdom, honour and dignity. Now take off your pants."
A confession: it's taken me until the second episode of Season Two to
work out that "Gen V" is a semi-pun, supposed to rhyme with "Gen
Z", as my British brain thinks "Gen Zed" and not "Gen
Zee". But I get it now...
Anyway, another top episode. Lots happens, of course, but the
worldbuilding is superb, as ever, gloriously skewering MAGA with aplomb as the
orange fascist runs amok in the real world. Firecracker's broadcast about Cate
is chilling, but not as much as Modesty Monarch, a "trad supe." Brr.
And all that Nazi and Klan stuff in the secret room within the archive... this
is dark, but that's what MAGA is. And then there's Emma telling Marie,
truthfully, that going back to uni and being very, very visible is her only
real defence against being disappeared by some supe version of ICE.
We get revelations about Andre, who seemingly suffered from the same
condition as his father, hence his death. We have a lovely scene with Marie and
Jordan reconciling, mourning, forgiving and reconnecting... literally, and
heartwarmingly. We get the Rememberer, a great little character. We get another
reminder of how those American frat societies are creepy, weird and deeply,
deeply wrong. We get the Deep spouting Lost Cause bollocks.
There are lots of little nuances and, yeah, a bit reveal at the end.
But mostly it's the mood, the world, the grim humour and, most of all, the characters.
So what exactly is this with Marie...?
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