What’s Streaming

THE BOYS Stream on Amazon. A trailer for this streaming series adaptation of comic books by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson features eye gouging, machine guns, lots of swearing and what appears to be a baby that fires lasers from its face. And that trailer is only about two minutes long. The thrust of the series — whose showrunner is the “Supernatural” creator Eric Kripke — is something like a dirty, topsy-turvy take on “The Avengers,” set in a world where badly behaving celebrity superheroes abuse their powers. Karl Urban plays Billy Butcher, the leader of a squad assembled to keep the superheroes’ misbehavior in check. That turns out to be a bit like employing hyenas to babysit coyotes.

PASSING: A FAMILY IN BLACK AND WHITE Stream on Topic. The comedian Robin Cloud hosts this series of documentary shorts. In the beginning, Cloud announces her intent to reconnect with relatives whose parents cut ties with the family, relocating from Harlem to the Midwest and trying, in their new life, to pass for white. When a reunion does happen, it brings with it conversations that touch on complicated questions about identity.