OP 20 April, 2021 - 05:35 AM
The first season of "Them" came out on April 9, 2021. It's meant to be an anthology series and the first season's full title is "Them: Covenant": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9064858/
The story centres around a family that moves from North Carolina to a super-clean and bright neighbourhood in Compton, California in the early-1950s. This is during a period in U.S. history known as the "Great Migration." Did I mention that the family is black and the neighbourhood is white?
The horror rests in these things:
1) The obvious -- the racism directed toward this family of four. Honestly, it's difficult to watch sometimes. The mom and the dad are not quite stable and it's no surprise.
2) The supernatural horror that's visited on this family after moving into their new house. In fact, this is a horror series and it's a good one.
What's worse? Supernatural horror or the horror that we as humans visit on each other? That's an ongoing theme.
In this way, it's very much like another horror anthology series that started in 2018, "The Terror": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708480 This one also used true events to ask the question above. The second season in particular did this, as it dealt with the internment of people of Japanese descent during WWII.
"Them" also looks amazing -- the exterior of the Compton neighbourhood and the costuming in particular. It's shot in quite a stylized way and it's pretty creepy right from the get-go.
The story centres around a family that moves from North Carolina to a super-clean and bright neighbourhood in Compton, California in the early-1950s. This is during a period in U.S. history known as the "Great Migration." Did I mention that the family is black and the neighbourhood is white?
The horror rests in these things:
1) The obvious -- the racism directed toward this family of four. Honestly, it's difficult to watch sometimes. The mom and the dad are not quite stable and it's no surprise.
2) The supernatural horror that's visited on this family after moving into their new house. In fact, this is a horror series and it's a good one.
What's worse? Supernatural horror or the horror that we as humans visit on each other? That's an ongoing theme.
In this way, it's very much like another horror anthology series that started in 2018, "The Terror": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708480 This one also used true events to ask the question above. The second season in particular did this, as it dealt with the internment of people of Japanese descent during WWII.
"Them" also looks amazing -- the exterior of the Compton neighbourhood and the costuming in particular. It's shot in quite a stylized way and it's pretty creepy right from the get-go.