Best Of: ‘Boroughs’ Actor Alfre Woodard / Rose Byrne

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From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend on Tanya Mosley. Today, actor Alfrey Woodard. She stars in a new Netflix sci-fi series, The Burrows, from the creators of Stranger Things. She plays a retired journalist living in a senior community where the residents are being preyed on by something otherworldly. The Duffer brothers have said the show exists because they couldn't understand why no one had made another cocoon.

Plus, TV critic David V. Cooley has a review of the series. Also, we hear from Rose Byrne, who starred in Bridesmaids, Neighbors, and If I Had Legs I'd kick you, about a woman who's spiraling trying to care for her sick. daughter while her life is unraveling. She really plays with the edge of consciousness, I think, in many ways, and tapped into the monster within and the fear of being a parent and the horror of being a parent.

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