The Boys has held a mirror up to the world for four entire seasons so far, but its showrunner says that the superhero adaptation wasn't designed to be so politically timely. If anything, the real world just became more and more similar to the show.
Showrunner Eric Kripke and Amazon Prime Video first started to turn the 2006 comic book series into a streaming show in 2019, at which point it oscillated between a violent take on the Justice League and a loose takedown of unchecked capitalism. But as the episodes ticked by, The Boys seemed to delve deeper into overt political commentary.
