“Supes Ain’t Always Heroes” - What “The Boys” can tell us about society and psychology

“The Boys” on Amazon Prime is not your typical superhero show - it’s gory, dark at times, and the “supes”, as they’re called, aren’t always the good guys. But with the real world pressures put on them - toxic masculinity, corporate greed and manipulation, racism - you start to understand how they got to be that way. Clinical psychologist Dr. Lynn Zubernis and counseling psychologist Dr. Matthew Snyder, both professors at West Chester University, co-edited a book called "Supes Ain’t Always Heroes: Inside the Complex Characters and Twisted Psychology of The Boys". We talk with them about how these characters are developed so that you hate them and root for them at the same time, and how the show reflects on the real society we live in.