Upside Down Pictures' string of post-Stranger Things releases continues with Netflix’s new 8-part sci-fi, The Boroughs. If you expected it to be another Spielbergian pastiche, just with older people as the heroes rather than children, then you’re only half right. The Boroughs is both a mystery and a memento mori. When “The Grey Rebellion,” fronted by Alfred Molina, uncovers an otherworldly threat preying on the residents of their senior living facility, they embark on a dangerous pursuit and are asked to confront not just how to kill a monster, but how far they are willing to go to revisit their youth.

Aging comes with its own set of challenges — sickness, decline in cognitive abilities, and invisibility from society. Older people face specific prejudices, as people brush off their ideas as fantasies of an aging mind. At a certain point, many older people move into elder care facilities, whether by choice or at the insistence of their loved ones. Unfortunately, some of those facilities do not have the residents' best interests at heart, but they will advertise themselves as heaven on Earth. These are the ideas explored in Netflix's upcoming horror series, premiering tomorrow, May 21.

After the divisive final season of Stranger Things, which concluded at the very end of 2025, the show's creators, the Duffer Brothers, have been focusing on facilitating others' projects. They've served as executive producers on the acclaimed horror series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, which premiered in March, and on the spin-off Stranger Things: Tales from '85, which premiered in May. The brothers' third series as executive producers in as many months is all set to debut this week on Netflix, as they prepare to begin a stint at Paramount. The Duffer Brothers, who gave Netflix one of its most-watched hits ever with Stranger Things, are pursuing new opportunities because they reportedly want to make theatrical movies.

The Duffer Brothers, who rose to fame after spearheading the platform-defining hit Stranger Things for Netflix, are set to begin a creative collaboration with Paramount. The brothers were reportedly keen to explore making movies for the big screen, which wouldn't have been possible at Netflix. At least, it wouldn't have been possible at Netflix until recently, when the streamer announced a fairly traditional theatrical roll-out for Greta Gerwig's upcoming Narnia movie. That said, the Duffers continue to produce new projects for Netflix via their Upside Down Productions banner, having already released the critically acclaimed horror series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen earlier this year. Now, they're gearing up for the release of their latest series, a sci-fi project that will have more in common with Stranger Things than with Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.