Netflix’s New Duffer Brothers Series ‘The Boroughs’ Starts Strong, Fizzles Out
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InnovationGamingNetflix’s New Duffer Brothers Series ‘The Boroughs’ Starts Strong, Fizzles OutByErik Kain,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture.Follow AuthorMay 27, 2026, 03:51pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.The BoroughsCredit: NetflixBy the end of the first episode of Netflix’s new sci-fi series, The Boroughs, I thought to myself, “This is a really good TV show.” I binged the first half of the season in one evening, and would have kept watching if I could survive on zero hours of sleep. Then, in the second half, The Boroughs, which has the Duffer Brothers attached as executive producers, just . . . fizzled out. To put it very succinctly, this would have been a great Netflix movie. As a series, it’s much too long and meandering.The Boroughs is about a retirement community in New Mexico that seems very pleasant and Utopian on the surface but, like all Utopian places, harbors a sinister secret. We know something is up right from the get-to, when an elderly woman is killed by some kind of horrifying monster inside her home.After this frightening intro, we meet our chief protagonist, Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina) a grouchy retiree who moves into The Boroughs against his will. His late wife had wanted to move there and he’d already signed a contract and invested his retirement savings into the place. He moves into the house where the woman in the opening scene was killed. For some reason, management hasn’t bothered to fix the doorknob that was blasted off during the attack.Cooper is a curmudgeonly old grump, brisque with his daughter and rude to his son-in-law. He’s grieving the loss of his wife who, we learn in flashbacks, he loved very much. They were very close. Their relationship was almost saccharine-sweet, and these flashbacks are, in some ways, the first...
