Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ Gives Superheroes the ‘Game of Thrones’ Treatment (Podcast)

“Game of Thrones” decapitated fairy tale and fantasy tropes by giving us deeply flawed knights, kings and queens. Amazon’s new “The Boys” similarly demystifies superheroes, as we discuss on the latest “Low Key” podcast. You can listen on your favorite podcast platform below, or right here: Every week on “Low Key,” Aaron Lanton, Keith Dennie and I look at pop culture subtleties and what they mean. “The Boys,” Eric Kripke’s adaptation of Gareth Ennis’ comic book about the antiheroes who try to rein in corrupt superheroes, is full of nuance — as well as very unsubtle sex and violence. “The…