In which city does The Boys primarily take place?

The Boys primarily takes place in New York City.

New York is the main setting for the television adaptation, as it is for the original comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The city provides the backdrop for Vought International’s corporate power, the Seven’s celebrity culture, and the conflict between Billy Butcher’s team and the superpowered “supes.” Many of the story’s institutions, offices, streets, and public events are presented as part of the New York setting.

The series was not primarily filmed in New York. Production took place mainly in Toronto, Canada, with additional filming around the Golden Horseshoe. Toronto locations were digitally altered or dressed to resemble New York, including fictional locations such as the Seven Tower. This production detail often causes viewers to answer Toronto, but that is the filming location rather than the story’s primary city.

The show later expands beyond New York through travel and international storylines, but those excursions do not change the central setting established by the comics and the series’ early seasons.