All the way back in the halcyon days of 2025, there was a show on Netflix called Stranger Things. Created by Matt and Ross Duffer, better known as The Duffer Brothers, the show was an enormous hit for the streamer, and ended with a great final episode that everyone loved. Just kidding! Anyway, the point here is that hot on the heels of the finale of the blockbuster series, Netflix has been engaging in a little game every other streamer and network has been playing for the past decade, to try and recreate the sensation with a new series… And that includes the Duffer Brothers, who may just have done the impossible with the new show The Boroughs.
In fact, in the wake of the end of Stranger Things, rather than sitting on their hands, the Duffers have released a non-stop barrage of shows hoping to fill the gap left by saying goodbye to Hawkins, Indiana. In March, they launched Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, a show created by Haley Z. Boston and executive-produced by the Duffers that goes far more surreal than Stranger Things but at least in terms of set dressing and style evokes some of the ‘80s flair, and certainly delves into horror. Call it Stranger Things adjacent, rather than a replacement.
