UPDATED with new trailer: “Welcome to The Boroughs, where you’ll have the time of your life,” the trailer for the new Netflix series from the Duffer Brothers opens, just as the teaser did, with a car driving down a New Mexico road.
“Yippie,” Alfred Molina’s Sam Cooper says in reply.
The eponymous retirement community is described as “a special town just for grownups” by Jena Malone’s Claire when someone in the car with Sam questions why everyone there is so old.
“Mr. Cooper, you’ll find The Boroughs is not a last chapter,” Beth Bailey’s pink-clad tour guide Kayleigh says. “It’s a new beginning.”
He then kicks her out of his new house.
“The Boroughs is a good place,” Bill Pullman’s Jack says as the six residents gather for dinner. “We take care of each other like a family.”
“Everybody’s trying to figure out what to do the time you get left,” he adds after Clarke Peters’ Art is shown playing golf.
L-R: Alfred Molina as Sam, Denis O’Hare as Wally, Clarke Peters as Art, Bill Pullman as Jack, Alfre Woodard as Judy and Geena Davis as Renee in ‘The Boroughs’
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“I want to fill it with nothing but cocktails and chaos,” Denis O’Hare’s Wally says.
Set to David Bowie’s “Golden Years (2002 Remastered),” the trailer takes a turn here as as a strange-looking silhouette of a creature hovers in front of a television screen.
“Since I’ve moved to The Boroughs, I’ve started to see things,” Molina’s Cooper tells Alfre Woodard’s Judy. “Impossible things.”
“I know how it sounds,” he tells Wally, who compares it to losing one’s mind. That’s what Sam’s afraid of. The pair await the creature together. Someone uses a hammer, Geena Davis is armed with a golf club and Judy has a shotgun to defend themselves against the mysterious beings.
L-R: Alfred Molina and Denis O’Hare in ‘The Boroughs’
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“There are wonders in The Boroughs, tucked away, hidden, buried,” Alice Kremelberg’s Annaliese says.
“We got two choices,” Wally says. “We can give up. We can go all the way.”
PREVIOUSLY, April 13: Netflix is giving us a look into The Boroughs, its next series produced by the Duffer brothers, coming to the small screen May 21.
In a teaser trailer clip newly released, Alfred Molina’s Sam Cooper gets driven by his daughter Claire (Jena Malone) to The Boroughs, a retirement community in the desert of New Mexico, to move in and on with his life.
“You’ll have the time of your life here,” the friendly security guard at the front gateway tells Sam, who grumbles about an “ironic slogan for a place people come to die.”
The logline for the series reads, “In a seemingly perfect retirement community, a grieving newcomer’s monstrous encounter inspires him to join a misfit crew of unlikely heroes who uncover a dark secret that proves their ‘golden years’ are more dangerous, and they are more formidable than anyone expects.”
The misfits Molina’s Sam joins include Renee (Geena Davis), Art (Clark Peters), Judy (Alfre Woodard), Jack (Bill Pullman) and Wally (Denis O’Hare).
“If you just open your heart to this place, you’ll find The Boroughs is not a last chapter,” a woman says with the backdrop of a wonder-inspiring score, composed by John Paesono, as Sam discovers mysterious creatures — one with a splayed, pronged, handlike appendage — in encounters not unlike those of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). “It’s a new beginning.”
Still more cast include Carlos Miranda as Paz, Seth Numrich as Blaine, Alice Kremelberg as Anneliese, Ed Begley Jr. as Edward, Dee Wallace as Grace, Eric Edelstein as Hank, Rafael Casal as Neil, Mousa Hessein Kraish as Dr. McGinnis, Beth Bailey as Kayleigh, Karan Soni as Joby, Jane Kaczmarek as Lilly and more.
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Netflix’s more in-depth summary calls The Boroughs “a picturesque retirement community,” but for new arrival Sam Cooper, “paradise feels more like a prison.”
“Everything changes when a terrifying nighttime encounter reveals that something mounstrous is stalking the manicured culd-de-sacs,” the summary continues. “Dismissed by the powers that be as just another confused old man, Sam finds unlikely allies in a band of neighborhood misfits: a sharp-witted former journalist, a spiritual seeker, a cynical musici manager and a brilliant doctor running out of options. Overlooked and underestimated, these unlikely heroes must band together to unravel the dark truth at the heart of The Boroughs before their time runs out.”
As Denis O’Hare’s Wally says at the end of the clip, that could be any day for any of them.
Find more new photos of the supernatural series below:
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L-R: Denis O’Hare as Wally, Alfred Molina as Sam, Alfre Woodard as Judy in ‘The Boroughs’
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L-R: Denis O’Hare as Wally and Alfred Molina as Sam in ‘The Boroughs’
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L to R: Denis O’Hare as Wally, Geena Davis as Renee in ‘The Boroughs’
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L-R: Alice Kremelberg as Anneliese Shaw, Seth Numrich as Blaine Shaw in ‘The Boroughs’
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L to R: Eldon Jones as Cody, Rafeal Casal as Neil, Emilia Faucher as Ella, Jena Malone as Claire Cooper in ‘The Boroughs’
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L to R: Alfre Woodard as Judy, Alfred Molina as Sam, Denis O’Hare as Wally in ‘The Boroughs’
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Clarke Peters as Art in ‘The Boroughs’
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Clarke Peters as Art in ‘The Boroughs’
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Carlos Miranda as Paz Navarro in ‘The Boroughs’
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L-R: Alfred Molina as Sam, Jena Malone as Claire Cooper in ‘The Boroughs’
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