📺 The Boroughs
by nicolemark · 34 things on Twos
- Netflix series starring Geena Davis, Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Jena Malone. Gives equal parts Stepford Wives, The Villages, Stranger Things, and something else I can’t quite identify yet. TV-MA. Drama/sci-fi/dark comedy/thriller.
- S1 E6 “The Grey Rebellion”
- With the entire gang under Blaine's thumb, Sam desperately seeks a way out. Art and Judy hit a breaking point. Wally gets a taste of a new life. - IMDb description
- Wally accepted a deal from The Boroughs management and proposed it to the rest of behalf of the crew
- Stay on property
- Pretend they never experienced monsters drinking their cerebrospinal fluid
- I just realized where I remember really loving Denis O’Hare. He was in the cast of True Blood and played a very evil dude
- Art and Judy have a fight about Judy’s affair with (now dead) Jack.
- Sam cuts off his ankle monitor and heads into the desert alone
- Sam’s daughter frets over whether to put him in The Manor
- Paz, Renee, and Judy meet up in Jack’s old house because they think it won’t be surveilled. Wally “made another choice”, Renee tells the others.
- Wally meets Mother, the mother of all the spidery monsters who produce The Juice. She’s not well. The head honcho, Blaine Shaw, wants Wally to use his doctoring skills to heal her.
- Sam gets locked up in The Manor
- S1 E7 “Time to Go”
- As the anniversary party approaches, Anneliese reveals a painful secret. The gang gets in gear for a high-stakes rescue mission at The Manor. - IMDb description
- The Boroughs 75th anniversary celebration is upon the town
- Sam wakes up, drugged. He was sedated for three days, the nurse says. “Your daughter signed the papers.”
- The actress who played the hospital administrator in Nurse Jackie is a patient at The Manor who is especially lucid.
- Sam’s daughter Claire realizes he was building a particle accelerator
- Wally has empathy for Mother
- The doctor before Wally is killed, and Blaine instructs Wally to withdraw Mother’s blood for Annaliese’s wound
- Paz, Renee, Art, and Judy break into The Manor to try to retrieve Sam
- Sam learns he’s not the only one with weird flashbacks of a significant person from his past
- The Manor’s “warden” Toby is a dick
- Renee and Judy find Sam right before The Manor’s lockdown protocols trip
- S1 E8 “Triple Audible”
- With Blaine and Anneliese desperate to capture Mother, Sam and his friends put it all on the line to save their neighbors and set things right. - IMDb description
- The episode opens with Art driving the getaway ice cream truck with Paz, Renee, Sam, Claire, and Judy as passengers. Sam announces they must save Mother.
- Wally kidnapped Mother in an effort to “save the world”
- Blaine realizes Sam is gone and Mother is gone. Annaliese blames him and slaps him in the face
- Sam can talk to Mother with his mind
- Art and Judy create a distraction but walk into Blaine and his goons
- The Shaws have cages stacked on cages of Mother’s children