The Boys TV series premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2019.
More precisely, the first season was released on July 26, 2019. Amazon released all eight episodes on the same day, making the show an immediate binge-watch rather than a weekly series. The season was developed by Eric Kripke and produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios, adapting the comic book created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
The series follows Billy Butcher and his team, known as the Boys, as they investigate and oppose corrupt superheroes backed by the corporation Vought International. Its satirical approach to celebrity culture, corporate power, and superhero mythology helped distinguish it from more conventional comic-book adaptations.
A frequent date mix-up is 2018, when production and casting were underway, or 2020, when the second season premiered. The pilot had an earlier festival screening at Tribeca in April 2019, but the public Amazon Prime Video premiere—and the year the TV series officially debuted—was 2019.