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Them review: Amazon Studios' new anthology is a brutal, unrelenting American horror story Firstpost 1 hour ago Rohini Nair This post contains minor spoilers for Amazon Studios' Them. *** Explanations for why audiences enjoy horror films/series/stories tend to focus on the cathartic release that comes after: the chance to experience our fears and anxieties, in what we know isn’t real — and therefore, a safe — setting. There’s nothing remotely cathartic about watching the Little Marvin and Lena Waithe-created Them, from Amazon Studios. Through its 10-episode run, the ...

Amazon Prime's 'Them' is the latest series that gets lost in its plot. The new horror series is created by Little Marvin.

Lovecraft Country speaks to the interest and urgency surrounding TV shows that recognize the horror elements in literary depictions of Black tragedy and trauma. There was horror in the minstrelsy of The Clansman, the Thomas Dixon Jr. novel that served as the basis for the 1915 film Birth Of A Nation. Pecola Breedlove’s narrative in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye was a horror story. Terrorizing Black people for their Blackness is horrific. Like its predecessors, including Them understands that for years, white people were the boogeymen in Black folks’ closets and the sources of scary...

Rolling Stone Menu ‘Them: Covenant’ Is Haunted by Another Show Amazon Prime’s new horror anthology series bears a coincidental, and unfortunate, resemblance to HBO’s knockout ‘Lovecraft Country’ By Amazon Prime Video Here’s a horror story: You have an idea for a TV show. It’s a really clever idea, one that’s never quite been done on television before. Everyone you tell about it couldn’t sound more excited. But ideas don’t turn into finished series overnight, and the development process takes so long, another show with the exact same idea premieres befo...

A young Black family's move from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood of Los Angeles puts their bond to the test in the first trailer for Amazon Studios' Them. The show was first announced back in July 2018, when Amazon Studios picked up two seasons of this anthology series from new creator Little Marvin. The first season of the anthology series, entitled Them: Covenant, is set in Los Angeles in 1953, when a family moves as part of a time known as The Great Migration, when the city of Compton was a predominantly white neighborhood. Trailer: A young Black family's move from North Carol...