The Boys pilot had its world premiere at which festival?

The Boys pilot had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The episode, titled “The Name of the Game,” screened on April 29, 2019, as part of Tribeca TV and was presented by AT&T.

The premiere took place several months before the series reached Amazon Prime Video. After the screening, showrunner Eric Kripke and members of the cast discussed the series and answered audience questions. Tribeca’s program described the show as a darkly comic take on superheroes who abuse their powers rather than use them for good.

The festival screening was a premiere of the pilot, not the full first season. The Boys later launched its first eight-episode season on Prime Video on July 26, 2019. That distinction can cause confusion because SXSW, Toronto, and Sundance are all major festivals with television or genre programming, but they were not the venue for this pilot’s world premiere. Tribeca was the specific festival that introduced the series publicly before its streaming debut.