{"id":2271005,"date":"2026-02-07T05:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2271005"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:38:30","slug":"the-burbs-review-keke-palmer-brightens-peacocks-mixed-bag-of-a-dark-comedy-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-burbs-review-keke-palmer-brightens-peacocks-mixed-bag-of-a-dark-comedy-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The \u2019Burbs\u2019 Review: Keke Palmer Brightens Peacock\u2019s Mixed Bag of a Dark Comedy Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It\u2019s a clever twist of The \u2019Burbs, Peacock\u2019s new series-length spin on the 1989 cult classic, to set its story around not one but two new households on the cul-de-sac. Where Tom Hanks\u2019 Ray was an established local casting a suspicious eye on his eccentric new neighbors, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10777890\/\">Samira<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1551130\/\">Keke Palmer<\/a>) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5532468\/\">Rob Fisher<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3099754\/\">Jack Whitehall<\/a>) are the new neighbors \u2014 at least for a little while, until even fresher meat arrives in the form of Gary (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005095\/\">Justin Kirk<\/a>), a sour-faced recluse.<\/p>\n<p>The shift allows the show to take on a more expansive view of American suburbia: its allure and its hidden dangers, the push-pull it represents between individuality and conformity. But if its ambitions are admirable, the execution is unwieldy. A lumpy, though not unpleasant, m\u00e9lange of uneven tones, thin characters and less-than-airtight reveals, The \u2019Burbs may not send anyone running for the hills \u2014 but it\u2019s unlikely to inspire&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a clever twist of The \u2019Burbs, Peacock\u2019s new series-length spin on the 1989 cult classic, to set its story around not one but two new households on the cul-de-sac. Where Tom Hanks\u2019 Ray was an established local casting a suspicious eye on his eccentric new neighbors, Samira (Keke Palmer) and Rob Fisher (Jack Whitehall) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2271006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2271005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018The-Burbs-Review-Keke-Palmer-Brightens-Peacocks-Mixed-Bag-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271007,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271005\/revisions\/2271007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}