Streaming on:<\/strong> Netflix <\/span><\/p>\n Mere months after Stranger Things<\/em> bowed out with its fifth and final season, the Duffer Brothers return to Netflix as executive producers of a new show that flips their signature hit upside down \u2014 replacing the kids with pensioners to face off against an otherworldly threat. If Stranger Things<\/em> was a love letter to the \u201980s, The Boroughs<\/em>, created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, is about people in their eighties \u2014 or at least, around that age \u2014 centring an older generation for a horror-fuelled sci-fi story of their own.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Where Stranger Things<\/em> introduced an ensemble of pre-teen unknowns to an unsuspecting public, The Boroughs<\/em> comes with a healthy pedigree of experience and background. This show is stacked with talent, perhaps more than any other title streaming this year. Alfred Molina, as Sam, is on fantastic, crabby form in the lead, teasing out the loneliness and heartbreak that lurks just beneath the surface. \u201cI was an engineer, but now I\u2019m a prisoner,\u201d he drily tells a transition manager upon arriving at retirement community The Boroughs, described by one character as \u201ca special town just for grown-ups\u201d. To his relief, it\u2019s not long before Sam strikes up new friendships \u2014 relationships that you\u2019ll root for from the get-go.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A place you\u2019ll be more than happy to retire to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Geena Davis, Clarke Peters, Alfre Woodard, Bill Pullman and Denis O\u2019Hare all play a vital role in the story too, each bringing their own unique quirks \u2014 and a surprising amount of horniness \u2014 to the table. The unique selling point of The Boroughs<\/em> is this older perspective, reminding us just how rare it is to see the singular outlook of those in their autumn years foregrounded in big-budget genre fare. It\u2019s just as rare to see this many big players aged 60 and above shine as part of an ensemble on screen too, even if the writing on the show itself doesn\u2019t always match their calibre.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n For at times, the show\u2019s genre thrills falter somewhat. Early reveals that come too soon and pacing issues in the middle undercut the impact of what could have been a gripping mystery. For better and for worse, this isn\u2019t just \u201cStranger Things<\/em>, but for older people\u201d; despite being understandably foregrounded in the press and marketing, the Duffers are strictly on executive-producer duties only. The budget doesn\u2019t quite match Stranger Things<\/em> in its heyday, either, with various effects and prosthetics that often underwhelm, even if that initial monster design comes out creepy in all the right ways. Still, if all of Netflix\u2019s money was spent on the cast, it was money well spent, because even with its flaws and that pesky monster rattling around, The Boroughs<\/em> is a place you\u2019ll be more than happy to retire to.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n More than just a spiritual successor to Stranger Things, The Boroughs is an original sci-fi that succeeds on its own terms, even if it does need to iron out a few wrinkles, figuratively speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina) stumbles across a monstrous creature, he and other retirees band together to try to save their local community. 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