Netflix setzt THE BOROUGHS nach einer Staffel ab

Neulich war ich äußerst positiv überrascht, als ich die SciFi-Mystery-Serie THE BOROUGHS, ausführend produziert von den Duffer Brothers (STRANGER THINGS) bei Netflix entdeckte.

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Review de Série: THE BOROUGHS

The Boroughs (2026)
Elenco: Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Geena Davis, Clarke Peters, Carlos Miranda, Jena Malone, Seth Numrich, Alice Kremelberg, Bill Pullman, Dee Wallace, Ed Begley Jr., Jane Kaczmarek
Criação: Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews
Direção: Vários
Cotação: 4,0/5,0

SINOPSE
O viúvo Sam Cooper se muda para Boroughs, uma comunidade para idosos no deserto do Novo México. Após um encontro com uma criatura monstruosa, possivelmente alienígena, ele se junta a um grupo de vizinhos para desvendar o segredo sombrio que ameaça os residentes do local.

COMENTÁRIOS
Que bom que The Boroughs não terá uma 2ª temporada (o que é diferente de ter sido cancelada, como os papagaios estão replicando internet afora). E digo isso não porque a série seja ruim – muito pelo pelo contrário, ela é ótima. Quantas vezes vimos filmes e séries memoráveis serem pulverizados por continuações que merecem ser esquecidas? Incontáveis vezes, esta é a verdade. Felizmente esta recente produção dos irmãos Duffer, os criadores de Stranger Things (série que também começou muito bem e teve um final abaixo das expectativas) e que estão de mudança para a Paramount, não correrá tal risco.

Mas antes de continuar, devo ressaltar que, apesar de produzida pelos Duffer, The Boroughs é uma criação original dos showrunners Jeffrey Addiss e Will Matthews, que apesar de também buscarem inspirações na cultura pop da década de 1980, souberam desenvolver, com identidade própria, uma trama interessante com início, meio e fim que dispensa qualquer tipo de sequência. Certamente quem gostou de Stranger Things terá muito o que apreciar nesta série de mistério e ficção científica, ainda que a ambientação seja contemporânea e os adolescentes tenham sido substituídos por adoráveis personagens na terceira idade.

Mesmo com a trama se passando nos dias atuais ela é repleta de nostalgia, com a inspiração mais óbvia sendo o cativante filme Cocoon, de 1985. Nele, os idosos de um asilo na Flórida descobrem uma “fonte da juventude” alienígena – algo que de certa forma também ocorre na comunidade de aposentados que dá título à série, porém de forma inversa já que os idosos não são os beneficiados (muito antes pelo contrário). Outras referências clássicas são os créditos iniciais, que remetem a antologias televisivas como Além da Imaginação e Quinta Dimensão, e a trilha incidental de John Paesano, que presta homenagem a trabalhos de colegas como Alan Silvestri e James Newton Howard.

Além da ótima escrita dos roteiristas, outro grande trunfo da série são seus personagens e o elenco que os interpreta. O grande Alfred Molina vive Sam Cooper, um ex-engenheiro que está de luto pela recente perda de sua esposa. Recém-chegado na comunidade, ele é recebido calorosamente pelos vizinhos, mas não se mostra nada receptivo. Tudo muda após testemunhar um deles ser morto, durante o sono, por uma espécie de monstro, e ele se junta ao grupo de idosos que, cada um a seu modo, provarão ser sábios e corajosos em busca da verdade.

Temos a espirituosa ex-jornalista Judy Daniels (Alfre Woodard) e seu marido, o místico Art Daniels (Clarke Peters), o brilhante médico Wally Baker, que sofre de câncer terminal (Denis O’Hare), e a empresária musical Renee Joyce (Geena Davis), que ainda conquista corações. Ao grupo também se juntará Claire (Jena Malone), a filha de Sam, e o segurança Paz (Carlos Miranda), o jovem namorado de Renee. Outros atores veteranos que merecem destaque, ainda que em participações mais limitadas, são Dee Wallace, Bill Pullman, Ed Begley Jr. e Jane Kaczmarek.

Ao longo dos seus oito episódios a série aborda temas densos e com os quais o público se identifica, como envelhecimento, mortalidade, solidão e a obsolescência perante a sociedade, tudo sob uma ótica empática, renovadora e muitas vezes emotiva. E claro, com uma boa mistura de aventura de ficção científica com monstros, humor e uma dinâmica que lembra uma versão com idosos de Os Goonies ou It – A Coisa. Por outro lado, a fórmula empregada cobra seu preço, com mistério e vilões ficando bem previsíveis, uma vez que a série aposta fortemente em elementos carregados de nostalgia que já foram bem explorados.

Mas esse pequeno senão não estraga o prazer de assistir The Buroughs que, reitero, felizmente não terá uma 2ª temporada. Alguém aí se lembra de Cocoon – O Regresso? Não? Lembra mas quer esquecer? Pois é… Todos os oito episódios desta série limitada estão disponíveis na Netflix em 4K/HDR/Dolby Atmos, para os assinantes do plano Premium.

Jorge Saldanha

Série THE BOROUGHS não terá 2ª Temporada

A Netflix anunciou que The Boroughs, recente série produzida pelos criadores de Stranger Things, os irmãos Matt e Ross Duffer, não terá uma 2ª temporada. Apesar do sucesso de crítica e de que ideias para futuras temporadas já estavam sendo discutidas pelos showrunners Jeffrey Addiss e Will Matthews, a decisão não deixa de ser coerente, já que a produção de ficção científica foi claramente concebida como uma série limitada, e em seus oito episódios desenvolveu de forma exemplar uma história com início, meio e fim. Além disso a continuidade da série estava mesmo praticamente inviabilizada, já que ela foi um dos últimos projetos dos irmãos Duffer para a Netflix antes de iniciarem seu novo contrato de exclusividade com a Paramount.

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The Boroughs – Season 1, Episode 1: Welcome To The Boroughs (2026) – Review

Growing old can be tough. Your joints freeze up, your brain fogs over and the world in general regards you as something of a nuisance rather that regarding you a font of wisdom, but hoping to address that balance is Netflix’s newest sci-fi show, The Boroughs. While some have taken the presence of the Duffer Brothers on producer duties as their cue to proclaim the show rather tritely as Stranger Things with old people, much like the aging characters located within there’s a little more under the hood than some may give it credit for.
Feeling more like they’ve taken the elderly camaraderie Ron Howard mined from Cocoon and thrown it headlong into the extraterrestrial paranoia of M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, series creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (who also cooked up the unfairly under-appreciated Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance) are obviously treading in the footsteps of the denizens of Hawkins, but can they make our stay at The Boroughs a pleasurable one?

Widower Sam Cooper is being driven by his family to the Boroughs, a state of the art retirement community and he’s feeling plenty sore about it. You see, his beloved wife, Lily, had arranged for them to move there before a stroke tragically took her life and since Sam can’t get out of the contract, he’s being forced to go there alone and the sullen and grieving man doesn’t mind showing how he feels about it.
However, even though the curmudgeon hates the place, you gave to admit that the Boroughs is an impressive set up. Located in the New Mexico dessert, the bungalows are all spacious and neighbourhoods are all clean and picturesque and if any of the residents take something of a turn, the Manor ensures they are kept comfortable and safe while their minds and bodies finally wind down. But despite this, Sam still wants out of his contract, even when he’s approached by some of the friendlier locals.
However, sinister vibes occur when one night Sam is visited by Edward, the visibly muddled husband of Grace who both used to live in Sam’s house before he moved there. Thanks to an ominous cold open, we already know that a horrible and other-worldy fate occurred to his wife, but after the confused man wounds Sam with a knife, the local authorities arrive to take him back to the Manor.
The the wake of his attack, Sam is even more adamant he wants to leave and even confronts the Borough’s CEO, Blaine Shaw to get him out of his contract. But after neighbour Jack Willard convinces him to join a barbecue to welcome him, Sam begrudgingly finds himself warming to the spirited group made up of the flirty Renee; retired journalist, Judy and her weed puffing hubby, Art and good-natured cancer sufferer, Wally. But after a hair-raising close encounter with a creature that seems to be feeding on Jack, it seems that the Boroughs is hiding some surprising secrets.

Sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than a good, solid first episode to lock you in to a brand new series. Not to belabour the comparisons to Stranger Things, but while the show turns out to be far more than just being a copy of that show that switches out teens for pensioners, you can’t help but be reminded of how good the opening episode of the Duffer Brothers’ pop culture smash really was. Much like the installment that introduced us to Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, “Welcome To The Boroughs” smartly lays out the scenario and all the characters with similar skill. Yes, there’s something of an argument to be made that some of the plotting follows the Netflix pilot manual to the letter (freaky opening, set-up, character intros, main character drama, closing shock), but when something works as well as this, why screw around with it?
Straight off the bat, we get some smart stunt casting after we witness Dee Wallace’s ill-fated Grace have a messed up run-in with some sort of spider-limbed being that end up being far nastier than both E.T. or the Krites from Critters. But while the whatever-it-is may vaguely recall every gangly-limbed creature we’ve seen in everything from 10 Cloverfield Lane to No One Will Save You, it’s still just enough creepy stuff to get you through an entire episode of set-up. However, the cool thing is that this introduction to the world of The Boroughs doesn’t actually need it to hold the interest as the characters and performances are more than enough.
Taking point is Alfred Molina’s Sam, a man who, by his own admission, found other people fairly tiresome even before his wife tragically died and while he’s obviously suffering PTSD from the event that only transpired five months earlier and is triggered by such things as Bruce Springsteen’s Thunder Road or the sight of someome choking, the actor still manages to project a gooey, wounded, interior under that crunchy, belligerent exterior.

Aiding him is a mature cast who also portray the typical, life loving types you tend to find in these sorts of things (again, Cocoon seems to be a major touchstone here) and while subsequent episodes will flesh them out more (depending on how long they survive, of course), everyone gets a good showing. Geena Davis grabs her colourful, quirky character with both hands, American Horror Story regular Denis O’Hare is fast with the quips, Independence Day veteran Bill Pullman is the resident ladies man, Clarke Peters quotes philosophy from under a cloud of weed smoke and Alfre Woodard’s journalist leanings will no doubt become invaluable as the mystery slowly unravels. You can tell that all their talents and quirks will all come to bear as the creeping, crawling things gradually slink into the light, but while the central conspiracy will no doubt dictate the plot more and more, watching these retirees deal with their advancing years proves to be genuinely endearing. All the little details are there (the flame decor on Sam’s golf cart is a winner even if he doesn’t agree) and with other threads waiting to blossom (the fact that Jack may be having an affair with Judy and Wally’s stage-four cancer will surely rise to prominence), but as we end the episode with Sam coming face to face with one of the multi-legged “Owls” as it appears to be leeching off Jack, there’s still plenty of intrigue to keep us going as the secrets behind the Boroughs slowly get exposed.

While the opening salvo of The Boroughs may not break the mold, any accusations of merely being an “aged up” Stranger Things are smartly vanquished by some winning performances by Molina and a similarly game cast. Whether or not it can manage to become as big a household name as that other show will remain to be seen, but it’s certainly proving the worth of the elderly when it comes to streaming shows.
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