What Alabama city is the 2021 The Wonder Years set in?

The 2021 version of The Wonder Years is set in Montgomery, Alabama.

The reboot relocates the coming-of-age story to Montgomery in the late 1960s and follows Dean Williams, a 12-year-old Black boy growing up in a middle-class family. The Alabama setting is central rather than incidental: it places Dean’s everyday experiences—school, friendships, family arguments and first crushes—against a region deeply shaped by the civil rights movement.

This setting distinguishes the reboot from the 1988 series. The original focused on Kevin Arnold and his family in an intentionally unspecified American suburb, while the new series gives viewers a more clearly identified community and historical perspective. Montgomery is especially significant because of its place in civil-rights history, including the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott.

The reboot premiered on ABC on September 22, 2021. Although filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, its fictional story world remains Montgomery, where the Williams family’s life is presented through adult Dean’s narration by Don Cheadle.