Popular Show Adds Disclaimer About ‘Coincidental’ Assassination Attempt After Trump Shooting

Making any show — much less a raunchy, vulgar and hyper-violent one — tackle the subject of political assassinations is always a risky endeavor.

Making any show tackle the subject of political assassinations when one of your characters is an admitted analog to a real-world politician? That seems like an objectively bad idea — and one that Amazon Prime Video has inadvertently waded into.

The streaming platform’s immensely popular superhero show “The Boys” found itself in such a controversy when its season finale...