There are days when it feels like society and culture are crumbling all around us and there's nothing we can do to stop it. That's why there was never a more perfect era to produce "The Boys," a blend of superhero satire and devastating truth bombs whose warped, funhouse mirror reality echoes our own in ways both discomforting and hilarious. The timing isn't lost on series showrunner Eric Kripke.

"I really lucked into adapting it at the single best time in history to adapt that comic," he told me over Zoom. I was speaking to Kripke ahead of the season 4 premiere of the Prime Video series -- which has evolved from an ultra-violent adaptation of the equally gnarly comics series from writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson into one of Amazon's streaming Crown Jewels -- and we were chatting about how the series reflects the very specific anxieties of being alive right now.