Amazon’s Prime’s The Boys (8 episodes) has a contemporary setting, except for its superheroes and the fact that they’re an accepted part of the everyday world. More than merely accepted, they’re celebrities. When one (of seven) retires, their sponsor/owner Vought corporation rolls out the replacement in a televised gala reminiscent of the BBC’s announcement of the next Doctor Who. The heroes’ pictures are on cereal boxes, soda bottles – you name it. They’re reputed, naturally, to bring villains great and small to justice. And they’re truly powerful: freaks of nature, perhaps thousands of them worldwide, who audition to stand among Vought’s few.