It’s a super-powered Netflix teamup: Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, the creators of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (pictured above), have paired up with executive producers the Duffer brothers (Stranger Things) for The Boroughs, a story about strange things afoot at a New Mexico retirement community.
Netflix describes the show like this:
The series takes place in a picturesque retirement community in the New Mexico desert, where a group of — you guessed it — unlikely heroes must band together to defeat an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have: time.
In a statement, the Duffer brothers said, “While the heroes in The Boroughs have a few more years on them than the kids from Stranger Things, they are a similarly lovable bunch of misfits, and we can’t wait for you to join them on an adventure that is at turns scary, funny and deeply touching.”
The Boroughs creators Addiss and Matthews are also the writers of the upcoming animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.
Netflix ordered eight episodes of The Boroughs, but no casting has been announced, and there’s no mention of when they expect to air the show. But the idea of a group of slightly older unlikely heroes sure has promise. Why let the kids have all the fun all the time?
