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In 1989, the twisted mind of Joe Dante<\/a> introduced a dark comedy called The \u2018Burbs, starring Tom Hanks<\/a> and Carrie Fisher<\/a>. The strange tale of a neighborhood paranoia towards less-than-friendly neighbors became a cult favorite among cinephiles. Now, in 2026, Peacock\u2018s The \u2018Burbs<\/a> has been reimagined by showrunner Celeste Hughey<\/a> and stars Keke Palmer<\/a>, Jack Whitehall<\/a>, Justin Kirk<\/a>, Mark Proksch<\/a>, Julia Duffy<\/a>, and Kapil Talwalkar<\/a>. The story follows Samira<\/a> and her husband, Rob, played by Palmer<\/a> and Whitehall<\/a>, as they move into his childhood home in Hinkley Hills, known as \u201cThe Safest Town in America.\u201d But behind the perfectly manicured lawns and rows of two-story Colonial houses lies a mystery, a long-buried secret,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1989, the twisted mind of Joe Dante introduced a dark comedy called The \u2018Burbs, starring Tom Hanks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-267741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}