{"id":504506,"date":"2026-01-09T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504506\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:23:10","slug":"peacocks-new-the-burbs-trailer-has-some-of-tvs-best-weirdos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504506\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacock’s new The ‘Burbs trailer has some of TV’s best weirdos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there a better weirdo, in the annals of the last decade or so of American TV comedy, than Mark Proksch? Your humble Newswire writer may admittedly be a little biased here, having interviewed Proksch a few years back<\/a>, during the midst of his fantastic run on FX\u2019s What We Do In The Shadows. But there\u2019s no faking the sheer delight that set in when we loaded up the new trailer for Peacock\u2019s\u00a0The \u2018Burbs TV show this morning, and saw Proksch sitting there, deadpanning about \u201cmoon bathing\u201d in the nude.<\/p>\n

\ufeff<\/p>\n

Really, though, the Keke Palmer-starring series is a (suspected) murderer\u2019s row of great TV oddballs, including Paula Pell, Justin Kirk, and\u00a0Newhart\u00a0star Julia Duffy, all playing the various neighbors driving Palmer and TV hubby Jack Whitehall crazy after they move from the city to sleepy little Ashfield Place. Which, we\u2019re told, with increasing frenzy, is \u201cthe safest town in America,\u201d despite the increasing worries about secret murderers that seem to be overtaking everybody\u2019s brains.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the 1989 Joe Dante\/Tom Hanks dark comedy of the same name, it\u2019s not clear yet how\u00a0dark this new version of\u00a0The \u2018Burbs\u00a0is going to go. (Spoilers for a 27-year-old movie, but it\u2019s certainly the most we\u2019ve ever been creeped out by a\u00a0Laugh-In\u00a0veteran.)<\/a> If nothing else, though, it\u2019s a testament to how hyped we can get solely off of great comedy casting, with Palmer firmly at the center of all this rising paranoia.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Burbs\u00a0debuts on Peacock on February 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is there a better weirdo, in the annals of the last decade or so of American TV comedy,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":504507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-504506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115867012611736160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}