Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week.

Anyone watching the Super Bowl on NBC this weekend is bound to see ads for Peacock’s new streaming series “The ‘Burbs,” inspired by the 1989 Tom Hanks film. NBCUniversal, parent company of NBC and streamer Peacock, has made promoting “The ‘Burbs” and its sputtering, undersubscribed streaming service a priority.

Presumably Peacock chose to use established IP solely for name recognition since the movie “The ‘Burbs” is based on wasn’t enough of a genre-defining hit to warrant a movie sequel. The only real connective tissue beyond the title and initial premise is a still image of Hanks as H. Horace Hinkley, founder of Hinkley Hills, the town where “The ‘Burbs” is set. (There’s also a bar called Hank’s.)

A young couple, Samira (Keke Palmer) and Rob (Jack Whitehall), move into Rob’s childhood home on a suburban block full of buttinski neighbors and one mysterious, dilapidated red home across the street.

Given the mix of comedy and drama, “The ‘Burbs” may remind viewers more of “Desperate Housewives” than the movie upon which this streaming series is based. Not only is the tone similar to the 2004-12 ABC hit but “The ‘Burbs” filmed on the Wisteria Lane set on the Universal backlot. (That creepy red house is also the same façade seen as the Munsters’ home in NBC’s 2012 “Mockingbird Lane” special.)

All eight episodes of “The ‘Burbs” stream on Peacock Sunday, and like “Desperate Housewives,” “The ‘Burbs” is a mystery with a strong comedic streak, thanks to its neighbor characters.

It’s refreshing to see actress Julia Duffy have a career renaissance with substantial roles in Apple TV’s “Palm Royale” and now in “The ‘Burbs,” where she plays nosy neighbor Lynn, who’s grieving the death of her husband.

Paula Pell (“Girls5eva”) gets the funniest lines as Dana, a Marine veteran.

“Despite what two decades of daytime television tells you, there are a lot of people who don’t care for middle-aged lesbians,” Dana deadpans.

Odd Todd (Mark Proksch, “What We Do in the Shadows”) is the final neighbor who joins with Samira, Lynn and Dana to form an investigative quartet. They’re set on figuring out what happened to a teenager who lived in the red house after she disappeared 15 years earlier.

Suspects, including Rob and new neighbor Gary (Justin Kirk), rise and fall but “The ‘Burbs” is at its best when the focus is on the comedic characters rather than the mystery because ultimately the mystery disappoints.

Writer/creator Celeste Hughey (“Dead to Me”) creates a series that isn’t great TV but is passable. It at least tries to build on the late ‘80s movie that inspired it by coming at the story from a Black woman’s point of view, as explored through Samira’s discomfort in white suburbia, a sentiment she shares by phone with her brother.

But structurally “The ‘Burbs” embraces the familiar trope of bouncing from one red herring to the next, which feels like marking time over too many episodes.

At the end, rather than wrapping it all up, “The ‘Burbs” blows up its seeming conclusion with a cliffhanger and the suggestion that there’s a bigger villain above the Big Bad already unmasked. That’s a TV conceit as predictable and bland as life in suburbia.