Having not watch The Boys, I came to see the first episodes with fresh eyes. The show has interesting ideas but too frequently resorts to phallic jokes to break up tensions or as a segue to another scenes. It's funny at first, but when that is your only gag, it becomes very repetitive, quite fast.

While the show has a good flow with events just happening after another, there were a couple of continuity errors where a barrier is set up for the character to circumvent, but then everyone acts as if that barrier was not there. For instance, guards apparently only hear someone if they are standing directly right in front of them, if someone is walking 10 seconds behind, might as well be a mouse. Or apparently students can just walk in a teaching staffs office (whether they are working thee or not) and log on to their computer without a password. Locks might as well be just a theoretical concept.

I do like Marie, as she plays the part of the innocent and idealistic freshman well. But I wonder if the show will explore the fact that characters really need therapy and whether or not they should continue to harm themselves to use their powers.

In the end, what I saw was entertaining, but I probably will not watch Gen Roman Numeral 5 it in its entirety for the aforementioned reasons (endless penis jokes and scenes that immediately abandon the tension that they had set set up).