When Eric Kripke is afraid of things, he puts them on-screen and blows them up. But the creator of "The Boys," Amazon's irreverent spin on the superhero genre, is not at all scared to tell you that the series at its core is a "dark satire about late-stage capitalism" and a "takedown of toxic masculinity."
Season 3, which premiered last week, is even wilder: a musical interlude here; a powerful racist getting, um, dragged for his actions there; an exploding penis everywhere. In a way, the excesses of "The Boys" serve as a kind of therapy, at least for those who work on it.
"The writers write what they're passionate about, angry about or frightened of as it's happening, which is why issues about over-policing and BLM [Black Lives Matter] and Jan. 6 are all folded into this season. We're writing what we see," Kripke says in a jolly Zoom chat.
