Within the newest episode of “The Boys,” titled “”Beware the Jabberwock, My Son,” we lastly have the anticipated crossover between the primary present and final 12 months’s spin-off “Gen V,” and it’s a spectacular solution to join the 2 sequence. At a time when the Marvel Cinematic Universe is battling connectivity going from a function to a bug, “The Boys” makes “Gen V” really feel not like a chore however a complement to the primary present. Butcher simply offers us a short exposition scene recapping how he went over to Godolkin College and discovered concerning the virus. That is it. We get a short cameo from two characters in “Gen V,” too, however you would not know them to be any completely different than any of the numerous one-off supes that seem within the present except you watched “Gen V.” If you wish to know extra, the sequence is there ready for you. In case you do not, then you do not have to observe it and have already got all of the essential data.
That is as a result of what issues is the virus — the final hope for Butcher and The Boys to neutralize Homelander — and that is a simple idea to introduce with out a lot context. To seek out it, The Boys head to a farm the place a scientist, performed by Omid Abtahi, is attempting to copy the virus for Victoria Neuman. The one drawback is that the lab is in ruins, the employees is lifeless, and now the characters are being chased by monsters. Not simply any form of monsters, both, however cute livestock injected with Compound V, which has turned them as violent and bloody as Cartman’s Woodland Critters from probably the greatest episodes of “South Park” (simply with fewer orgies).