by Alex Billington
May 5, 2026
Source: YouTube
“There are wonders in the boroughs… tucked away, hidden, buried.” Netflix has unveiled the full official trailer for the mysterious sci-fi adventure supernatural series called The Boroughs, executive produced by The Duffer Brothers of Stranger Things. The Burbs meets Stranger Things meets The Twilight Zone. In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a grieving newcomer’s monstrous encounter inspires him to join a funky crew of unlikely heroes who uncover a dark secret that proves their “golden years” are more dangerous than anyone expects. They discover something freaky is hiding under all the cul-de-sacs. Alfred Molina stars as Sam – who finds unlikely allies in a band of neighborhood misfits: a sharp-witted former journalist, a spiritual seeker, a cynical music manager, and a brilliant doctor running out of options. The full cast features Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Bill Pullman, Clarke Peters, and Denis O’Hare, along with Carlos Miranda, Jena Malone, Seth Numrich, Alice Kremelberg. This group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing that they don’t have – time. This looks very entertaining & very clever! I dig the vibes and the cast is terrific – yep I’ll be watching.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Addiss & Matthews’ series The Boroughs, from Netflix’s YouTube:
“The central question of the show is: What will you do with the time you have left? And we literally say that in the pilot. It was important to us that was the question because it’s a question that anybody can ask. It’s a question that any audience of any age can ask. And our heroes are probably on the shorter end of the stack, so the stakes are higher. The choices they make matter more because they maybe have less time left — or they might have more time, because weird stuff is always happening in The Boroughs.” –Co-creators Jeffrey Addiss & Will Matthews
You can rewatch the initial teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Boroughs series right here for the first look again.
“Executive produces of Stranger Things welcome you to a new community.” In the sun-drenched expanse of the New Mexico desert lies The Boroughs, a picturesque retirement community promising its residents the time of their lives. But for new arrival Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina), paradise feels more like a prison. Everything changes when a terrifying nighttime encounter reveals that something monstrous is stalking the manicured cul-de-sacs. Dismissed by powers that be as another confused old man, Sam finds unlikely allies in a band of neighborhood misfits: a sharp-witted former journalist, a spiritual seeker, a cynical music manager, a brilliant doctor running out of options. Overlooked & underestimated, these unlikely heroes must band together to unravel the dark truth at the heart of The Boroughs… before time runs out…
The Boroughs is a series created & showrun & written by the two screenwriters Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, both writers on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Life in a Year, and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim previously. With episodes directed by Ben Taylor, Augustine Frizzell, Kyle Patrick Alvarez. Executive produced by Duffer Brothers & Hilary Leavitt for Upside Down Pictures, Ben Taylor, Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews. With music by John Paesano. Filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Netflix debuts The Boroughs series streaming on Netflix worldwide starting May 21st, 2026 coming up. Who’s in?
