News The Boroughs The Boroughs Trailer Shows Us a Little More of Its “Special Town Just for Grownups” Today’s award for Overly On the Nose Song Choice goes to “Golden Years” By Molly Templeton | Published on May 5, 2026 Screenshot: Netflix Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Netflix When it comes to Netflix’s The Boroughs, I am Alfred Molina’s doubtful expression: The previous trailer was unconvincing, and Netflix’s insistence that this series comes from the Stranger Things guys is a touch misleading. They are executive producers, but the show’s creators and showrunners are Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, who also created The Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance. That is a different species than Stranger Things! But like Molina in this trailer—which begins with him skeptical and cranky about moving to the titular retirement community—I am being slowly won over. Molina, whose character Sam is described as a grieving widower, is the newest resident of the Boroughs, which is already home to “a curmudgeonly ex-engineer, a sharp-witted former journalist, a spiritual seeker, a cynical music manager, and a brilliant doctor running out of options.” Those characters are played by Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, and Bill Pullman, though to be honest I am not entirely clear who’s playing whom. I suspect O’Hare is the cynical music manager, which is excellent casting for the former vampire king of Mississippi (on True Blood). According to Netflix, this gaggle of retirees find their lives changed “when a terrifying nighttime encounter reveals that something monstrous is stalking the manicured cul-de-sacs.” The truth is out there—perhaps on the golf course, perhaps in the pool. Probably not at the bar, but one never knows. Are the creatures aliens? Friends? Foes? The result of terrible experimentation on older folks? Co-creator Addiss told Tudum that it was “fundamentally important” that the characters’ ages are not played for jokes. “It is part of why they are our heroes,” he said. The point of the show is to ask what these folks—and anyone—will do with the time they have left. “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,” Addiss said. The Boroughs premieres on Netflix on May 21st.[end-mark] The post <i>The Boroughs</i> Trailer Shows Us a Little More of Its “Special Town Just for Grownups” appeared first on Reactor.