The Boroughs is the Netflix show from the makers of Stranger Things, but do the team manage to bring down Mother? Find out below.
The six-episode series comes from executive producers The Duffer Brothers, the creators of Stranger Things, and it has stars Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, Geena Davis and Denis O’Hare as residents of a retirement community that become confronted with a strange set of mysteries.
A synopsis reads: “In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have…time.”
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The show has been created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, previously known for writing The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim and The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance. All six episodes premiered on Netflix on May 21.
NME gave The Boroughs a four-star review, noting: “Like Stranger Things, The Boroughs is hard to pigeon-hole. There are elements of family drama, shades of comedy and moments of schlocky horror, but it’s just as intriguing as the Netflix hit’s early years.”
The ending of The Boroughs explained: do the team manage to bring down Mother?
For most of the season, the residents of the retirement community think Mother is the monster behind the mysterious deaths and attacks. By the final episodes, they have discovered that underground creatures are feeding on elderly residents, while The Boroughs CEOs Blaine and Anneliese Shaw (Seth Numrich and Alice Kremelberg) use the creatures’ blood to maintain eternal youth.
However, Sam (Alfred Molina) learns through psychic visions of his dead wife Lilly – and from another patient in The Manor – that Mother is not the villain, but a captive creature the Shaws have exploited for decades, forcing her offspring to feed on residents so they can harvest restorative fluid from her blood.
In the final episode, Wally (Denis O’Hare) smuggles Mother out of the lab, while Paz and Renee (Carlos Miranda and Geena Davis) free her offspring. When the Shaws corner Sam, Claire (Jena Malone) and Wally at Sam’s house, Sam and Claire activate a wall of old televisions whose light frequency destabilises the creatures, disintegrating Anneliese and weakening Blaine.
Mother later heals the badly injured Judy (Alfre Woodard), reunites with her offspring in the cave, and unleashes a massive energy blast that kills both herself and Blaine. Sam survives and later celebrates with his family and friends.