A mysterious creature in a mysterious retirement community: the VFX of ‘The Boroughs’

June 1, 2026

A brand new podcast with VFX supervisor Tara DeMarco.

Today on the befores & afters podcast, we’re talking about the new Netflix series, The Boroughs. I got to chat with visual effects supervisor Tara DeMarco about the show, who had previously been the VFX supervisor on WandaVision.

If you haven’t caught The Boroughs yet, here’s the premise: “In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have…time.”

Now, there’s a bunch of spoilers in our chat, so I strongly recommend you watch the whole series before listening. We dive right into all the VFX challenges, including creatures, environments, TV distortion effects and even crows.

Listen in, above, and see the trailer and a featurette, below.

 

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