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.

Older folks are revered for their wisdom as they’re simultaneously pushed toward the edges of society. It is a conundrum most people don’t begin to consider until they near their own twilight years. In Netflix’s sci-fi horror dramedy, “The Boroughs,” creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, along with executive producers the Duffer brothers, deliver a […]