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«Them» is an American horror drama streaming television anthology series created by Little Marvin and executive produced by Lena Waithe.

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Them is an American horror drama streaming television anthology series created by Little Marvin.
It is executive produced by Lena Waithe.
The series stars Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Alison Pill, and Ryan Kwanten.
It premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 9, 2021.
It received mixed reviews, with a 62% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The series is set in 1953.
«Them» follows a black family who, during the Second Great Migration, moves from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Los Angeles. The family’s idyllic home slowly transforms into an epicenter of evil forces, next-door and otherworldly, that threaten to haunt, ravage and destroy them
On July 28, 2018, Amazon gave the project a two-season order.
The series was created by Little Marvin, who also wrote the script for the first season and was set to executive produce the show alongside Lena Waithe under their overall deals with Amazon Studios.
Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, and Michael Connolly of Vertigo Entertainment were also announced as executive producers, with Vertigo co-producing the series under the company’s deal with Sony Pictures Television.
The first season is subtitled Them: Covenant, and the series will follow a similar limited semi-anthological structure to American Horror Story, with each season following a different story with different characters.
On April 1, 2019, David Matthews joined the series as showrunner under his newly announced overall deal at Sony Pictures Television.
On November 19, 2019, it was announced that Larysa Kondracki was attached to executive produce the series as well as direct multiple episodes including the pilot under her overall deal at Amazon Studios.
The series began production on July 8, 2019, with filming taking place between Atlanta and Los Angeles.
The set for the neighborhood was built on a lot in Pomona, California.
The series had its world premiere on March 18, 2021, at the SXSW Film Festival as part of the Episodic Premieres section.
The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 9, 2021.
Series writer-creator Little Marvin was delighted to learn that the master of horror Stephen King had said of the show, “The first episode scared the hell out of me, and I’m hard to scare. Bonus: If you’ve never seen a bunch of extremely creepy white ladies in 50s dresses, here’s your chance.”
Despite being about racism in America, the majority of the main actors are English, Canadian and Australian.
This is the second role of Shahadi Wright Joseph in a story about a black family terrorized, and with a pronoun for a title. Her first such role was as the teen daughter in “Us”, another thriller by a black writer. Both “Us” and “Them” also feature the song “Les Fleurs” by Minnie Riperton.
On Gracie’s first day of school, she wears a blue jumper that bears a striking resemblance to the outfit Ruby Bridges wore, on her first day at an integrated school. Likewise, her older sister Ruby faces similar push-back to what Bridges went through.
The Emory’s house number is “3011.” The letter K is the 11th letter in the alphabet and if you repeat it three times you get “KKK.” 311 is a number used by the hate group to refer to the Klan.
The show takes a series of studies on generational trauma through its supernatural elements; a closer look on Miss Vera, Doris and the Jim Crow ghoul dissects the effects of the Willie Lynch letter on other generations.
So while “Them” is not “based on a true story” in the traditional sense, it is definitely has its basis on many, many real things that many Black people have in the past experienced and still experience to this day. Creator Little Marvin and co. crafted an original horror tale, but it’s a tale rooted in real suffering.
Variety‘s chief TV critic Daniel D’Addario wrote that “In visual style and in the performances of the actors playing the Emorys, it captures a recognizable 1950s of the mind. A striking early sequence sees the family in integrated settings, being assisted by white employees at an appliance store and a soda fountain.