Critics Praise Netflix's 'Intriguing' New Drama From The Producers Of Stranger Things |
Critics Praise Netflix's 'Intriguing' New Drama From The Producers Of Stranger Things
Produced by The Duffer Brothers, The Boroughs is definitely one to check out if you're a Stranger Things fan.
From the producers of Stranger Things comes The Boroughs, a new Netflix sci-fi series that follows supernatural goings on in the unlikeliest of spots.
Led by an all-star cast that includes Alfred Molina, Bill Pullman and Clarke Peters, The Boroughs has already been described as a mix of The Goonies, A Man On The Inside and The Thursday Murder Club.
The show follows a group of pensioners in a luxury retirement village, as they try to hunt down the creature living underneath their homes, after mysterious goings-on threaten them and their loved ones.
Critics have mostly praised The Boroughs, although some have said it doesn’t live up to the earlier series of Stranger Things.
Here’s what critics are saying about The Boroughs so far…
“Like the best hokum, The Boroughs speaks, via monsters and electroplasm, to eternal human fears. Death is one, but The Boroughs parses it further – the fear of dying alone and friendless, after all one’s loved ones have gone, or after years of living in a terrifying, memory-less present – and then gives us comfort, that together most monsters can be defeated.”
“Part Thursday Murder Club, part Stranger Things, The Boroughs is an unexpectedly entertaining mix of adventure and wonder, drama and humour. Age is just a number – and it doesn’t matter what that number is when you’ve got a monster in your front room.”
“Like Stranger Things, The Boroughs is hard to pigeon-hole. There........