'The Burbs' remakes a cult classic with an anxious new mom and secretive husband

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NEW YORK — Keke Palmer can make Jack Whitehall blush.We’re sitting in the green room at the 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, just before Palmer is set to host a live edition of her podcast, “Baby, This Is Keke Palmer,” with Whitehall and their other co-stars from the Peacock series “The ’Burbs,” premiering Sunday.In the show, Palmer and Whitehall play Samira and Rob, new parents who move back to Rob’s hometown of Hinkley Hills, a beautiful suburb where Samira immediately suspects something is amiss.Palmer has kicked off her high heels and tucked her feet under her on the couch where she sits next to Whitehall as I ask them about their chemistry read.Led by Keke Palmer and Jack Whitehall and featuring a quirky cast of characters, Peacock’s horror-comedy mystery series dilutes some the suspense but it’s still a good time.“He was making me — not just me, everybody — laugh,” she remembers.“It was like, yeah, I can see how you fall in love with this guy because he’s just so funny and he’s so sweet.

It’s so true, Jack.Seriously.”Whitehall’s face turns red, which I point out.

He admits that’s the case through giggles.Palmer interjects, “He knows how I feel.

That’s my boo.”“The ’Burbs” reimagines the 1989 Joe Dante movie starring Tom Hanks for a modern era.In the original, Hanks’ character is driven to madness, imagining that his neighbors in the creepy house across the street might be murderers.Developed by Celeste Hughey, this version puts Palmer’s Samira, a lawyer on maternity leave, at the center.

Though initially ill at ease among the carefully manicured lawns, she develops a fast friendship with a group of gossipy wine guzzlers on her block (played by Julia Duffy, Paula Pell and Mark Proksch).When a creepy man (Justin Kirk) moves into the dilapidated Victorian mansion across the street, she starts to ...