These frights all pop up in The Boroughs, a Netflix sci-fi horror series set at a retirement community in the New Mexico desert. With Stranger Things creators the Duffer brothers as executive producers, it’s an empathetic take on aging that captures the pain of being discarded and the joy of finding late-in-life purpose and friendship. A cast led by Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, Geena Davis, Clarke Peters, and Denis O’Hare embodies a refreshingly contemporary form of senior citizenship; instead of dozing off to Matlock, these boomers take psychedelics, do Springsteen karaoke, and practice free love. The trouble comes when creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (who previously helmed Netflix’s Dark Crystal series) try to synthesize all of their compelling characters and ideas into an overarching statement
A deceptively pristine cul-de-sac in The Boroughs —NetflixThe Boroughs offers a bottomless supply of both. A many-legged mystery monster is slowly killing residents, and the glamorous couple that owns the complex (Seth Numrich and Alice Kremelberg) seems more concerned with keeping up immaculate appearances than with investigating. Certain that going public with their fears will only get them confined to the Boroughs’ eerie nursing unit, Sam and his friends are left to defend themselves from whatever is preying on them.
From left: Clarke Peters, Geena Davis, Bill Pullman, Alfre Woodard, and Alfred Molina in The Boroughs —NetflixI do wish we got to know them a bit better. Sadly, The Boroughs also shares with Stranger Things a tendency to stop developing characters and relationships after efficient introductions. (The exception is Wally, a gay man whose memories of the AIDS crisis complicate his every choice.) Instead, both shows keep adding portentous but vague themes until so many ideas have been articulated that only the most anodyne takeaways survive. In this case, the horrors and the pleasures of old age are, finally, reduced to mushy platitudes: “Time is a gift.” “Why does anyone do anything? Love.” You’d think people staring down mortality would have more penetrating insights to share.
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