The Fishers’ home stands opposite a spooky Victorian house that has been derelict for 20 years and, according to rumour, was the scene of a terrible crime. One night, a new owner moves in and gets Samira’s spidey-senses tingling. There’s the time he hauls a body-sized bundle into his house, and the time she spots him in the local hardware store buying an axe and some rubber gloves. She and a motley crew of neighbours start to keep tabs on him, believing he might be a murderer in their midst. But as the episodes go on, it also becomes clear that Rob knows more about that house than he’s letting on.
All of this is investigated in the low-stakes style of Only Murders in the Building. Unfortunately, The ’Burbs, produced by Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane, isn’t half as funny or camp as that show. Nor does it have the thrills and chills of Netflix’s The Watcher, which trod similar ground. What it does have is Whitehall, in quite the worst piece of transatlantic casting since they put Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
There is also a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Tom Hanks cameo.