Prime Video just released the trailer for “Them: The Scare,” and it looks like creator and executive producer Little Marvin has some recent tricks up his sleeve.
The first edition of “Them: Covenant” was met with mixed reviews when it launched in 2021; the performances from stars like Deborah Ayorinde and Shahadi Wright Joseph were simply spectacular.
The second installment of the horror anthology series will return to Los Angeles with Ayorinde returning in the lead role. This time, nevertheless, we fast forward to 1991 and she or he plays LAPD homicide detective Dawn Reeve, who’s assigned to a brand new case: the gruesome murder of a surrogate mother that can shock even the most hardened detectives. Navigating turbulent times in Los Angeles, a city on the brink of chaos, Dawn is set to stop the killer. But as she gets closer to the truth, something sinister and sinister grips her and her family.
The solid includes Pam Grier as Athena and Grammy-nominated musician and actor Luke James as Edmund Gaines. Joshua J. Williams, Jeremy Bobb, Wayne Knight, Carlito Olivero, Charles Brice and Iman Shumpert will join the solid.
In a 2021 interview with theGrio, Little Marvin explained why he took this approach, what story he desired to tell and why the trauma depicted was needed.
“The show had no intention of coddling or placating anyone. By the way, I mean white and black. It wasn’t interested. I feel quite a lot of things are spoiled and I feel there may be a time and a spot for that. We weren’t particularly interested in supplying you with the easy way out because often in life we haven’t got that easy way out,” he explained.
“We never wanted to make a show about trauma, about Black trauma. We set out to make a Black-led show that was Black-centric, complex, nuanced and emotionally rich,” he continued. “But the show has all the time been about defeating the terror of whiteness. It wasn’t about exploring Black trauma. It was about defeating the terror of whiteness, and particularly the terror of white supremacy in this country.
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The series, which starred Ashley Thomas, Allison Pill and Anika Noni Rose, left some people praising it while others marveled at the amount of brutality inflicted on the show’s black characters.
According to Little Marvin, the gruesome acts of violence we saw in Them: Covenant were intentionally horrible because that was the truth of the era the film explored.
“I think it’s time to call the Jim Crow South what it has always been: it was a domestic terrorist regime,” he says. “That’s what it was, plain and simple. We are talking about a place where lynching was entertainment, lynching was a sport and a spectacle. This is the history of this country. I don’t think it’s our job as artists to whitewash this history. I think our job as artists, personally, is to bear witness. My job is to bear witness.”
“Them: The Scare” will likely be released on Prime Video on April 25.
Check out the trailer:
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