The suburbs are anything but bland in the new Peacock series “The ‘Burbs,” where strange things are going on. Like how jokes mix with the dread.
Inspired by the 1989 Tom Hanks-led movie of the same name, “The ‘Burbs” follows a new mom as she navigates a foreign world of white picket fences and manicured lawns while also investigating a possible murder.
“It’s got the comedy, it has the drama, it’s got the mystery, it’s got the horror, the thrills, the suspense — all of it,” says Celeste Hughey, the creator, writer and executive producer. All eight episodes drop Friday.
Hanks is replaced by Keke Palmer, who plays a newlywed and new mom who moves into her husband’s family home in fictional Hinkley Hills, where everyone is in everybody else’s business. “Suburbia is a spectator sport,” she is told.
Across the street is an abandoned home, where a local teen
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