The question of time, and how best to spend it, is front of mind for the characters of Netflix’s The Boroughs. As Boomers living out their last years in an idyllic desert retirement community, they’re never not aware of how quickly time can move, how little of it they might have left, how much of it they’ve wasted already or fear wasting still.
There is some irony, then, in the fact that the series’ greatest flaw might be misallocation of this precious resource. While the sci-fi thriller proves a fine enough way to while away a few hours, with a plot that boils down to “Stranger Things but old people” and an A-list cast that’d turn the grey hairs of A Man on the Inside green with envy, I left thinking too much of its eight 45-minute episodes had been spent on the former, at the expense of the latter.
The Boroughs
The Bottom Line
A great cast let down by a dull plot.
