the burbs

In addition to Riley’s film, she’ll soon appear in an Eddie Murphy comedy, “The Pickup”; Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, “Good Fortune”; a buddy comedy with SZA that she produced called “One of Them Days”; and a Peacock television adaptation of the 1989 Tom Hanks movie “The ’Burbs.”

Three shows, ‘Son of a Critch,’ ‘Children Ruin Everything’ and ‘Run the Burbs,’ join the CW’s Monday lineup this summer.

Even the mainstream stuff, I wrote funny lines in “The Lost Boys” and “The ‘Burbs.”

I could be didactic with you — sure, quit your job, marry your partner, move to the burbs — and that may feel like a prognostication of sorts.

In his song “Rhyming While Black,” he shouts out to everyone “from the streets to the burbs / and the farms to the curbs.”