Last month, Matt and Ross Duffer officially packed up their Upside Down Productions banner and headed off to new frontiers with Paramount after spending ten years building Stranger Thingsat Netflix. The brothers’ newest four-year overall deal kicked in with the end of their old pact in April, though they’ll still be involved with their original streaming home for a while. While they’ll focus on other feature films, television, and streaming projects under the now Skydance-owned banner, existing projects, like the recently renewed animated spin-off Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, will still be part of their itinerary. One such remaining series, an entirely new IP created and showrun by The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance helmers Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, is set to debut this month.
The Boroughs is another sci-fi horror mystery series executive produced by the Duffer Brothers that, as they previously teased at SCAD TV Fest last year, shares plenty of DNA with Stranger Things and a bit with Ron Howard‘s Cocoon. Instead of Hawkins, Indiana, the story unfolds in the New Mexico desert where the titular Boroughs lie. An idyllic retirement community where senior citizens can enjoy their golden years with some level of freedom, it seems like heaven, with pristine homes, well-manicured lawns, and plenty of activities. Alfred Molina‘s Sam Cooper sees it as little more than a well-dressed prison, but it soon proves to be much more terrifying than he could imagine.
With just over two weeks until the premiere, Netflix shared a new trailer set to David Bowie‘s “Golden Years” that pulls back the curtain on more of the monsters that come out at night. Like the first footage, it shows Sam’s begrudging arrival in the community, where everyone else has otherwise seemingly found happiness in what the Boroughs have to offer. However, his annoyance turns to fear as he starts seeing “impossible things” and nobody, save for a band of neighborhood misfits, believes him. Spindly hands and inhuman clicks hint at something otherworldly lurking just within the shadows. Sam joins with the other outcasts of the Boroughs to find both the wonders and the dark secrets of their community, knowing full well that knowledge of what’s really happening could put them all in grave danger.
To bringThe Boroughs‘ formidable residents to life, a formidable ensemble was recruited for the occasion. Joining the Emmy-nominated Molina areGeena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, Bill Pullman, Carlos Miranda, Jena Malone, Seth Numrich, andAlice Kremelberg. Additional cast members includeEd Begley Jr., Dee Wallace, Eric Edelstein, Rafael Casal, Mousa Hussein Kraish,Beth Bailey,Karan Soni, andJane Kaczmarek. For Molina, this will be his first leading live-action television role since he starred in Prime Video’s short-lived mystery series<em>Three Pines</em>. It’s also a reunion for him and Netflix after he lent his voice to the animated Greek mythology seriesBlood of Zeus as the titan Cronus.
The Boroughs open on Netflix on May 21. Check out the new trailer in the player above.
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May 21, 2026
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Netflix
- Directors
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Augustine Frizzell, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Ben Taylor
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