Them, a horror series that explores the terrors faced by a Black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Los Angeles in the 1950s, during the Great Migration, premiered on April 9 on Amazon.
It’s the latest addition in an uptick of stories on screen that attempts an inclusion of subversive black characters in a genre that historically has had a negligible and exploitative history of representation, at least where race is concerned.The series also aims for a pointed commentary on racism — too pointed — often forsaking storytelling and the paradoxes of horror as a genre, to arrive at its conclusions, and in the process, displaying gratuitous violence.
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