Them (2021) Amazon Prime Video Series Review
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Thanks for checking out my review of the new Amazon Prime Video series 'Them' from creator Little Marvin. This series set in 1950s California examines the life of the Emory family, a Black family that moves into an all-white neighborhood. Once there, they experience terrors and torment from entities both next door and otherworldly. Should this horror series be on your watchlist? Thanks for checking out my review of Them!
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My couch rating system:
5 - A must watch - do not pass this one up
4 - It's really good, you should see it
3 - It's OK - maybe good for a rental
2 - It's not that good and I wouldn't recommend it
1 - It's terrible and I definitely don't recommend it
0 - Cutting off a finger is better than watching this
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It was creepy, uncomfortable, bothersome and horrifying... As an Asian, through it all, I felt sad and traumatized. I actually cried on some parts of the story.
But this is history a lot of this actually happened, this an more
Based on true events
As a black girl seeing Ruby get bullied in school made me relive some scary stuff
so how do you compare the racism that black folks still endure compared to the fake covid blacks hate asians lie???? Im glad you enjoyed our pain.. smh.. must be nice...
These events and worse have happened to Black Americans for centuries up to PRESENT TIME. The "trauma" you mentioned feeling is exaggerated at best.
I love it. It did what real artistry is suppose to do, provoke emotions and discussion. If art doesn't do that, it wasn't worth it. This show made me angry, upset, and horrified. It kept me engaged to the TV. While the events of this film are fiction, these kinds of events really did happen and not only to blacks but to many other minorities in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I felt a lot of empathy for "Lucky" and the PTSD she carried with her. I just didn't expect such an exceptional show from Amazon Prime. This is usually HBO territory but Amazon truly stepped up to the plate with this show.
I enjoyed your review, but I thought Bette's scene with her father and mother wasn't to make us feel sympathy for Bette, it was to show that the perfect, noble façade she was "protecting" was a lie. In her polemic at the neighborhood meeting, in the one of the earlier scenes, she talks about the neighborhood being a "blood right" and something her father fought to preserve for his family. When she visits him to ask for a loan he has nothing nice to say about Compton and speaks about it like a worthless hovel. The visual allusion to serial sexual abuse is to show that she has nothing to protect because her legacy is abusive and rotten. Her husband's back story also speaks to this. The policeman references him going into a bar that "looks like every other bar from the outside". I instantly thought that was a reference to a gay bar. He is also spending all of his savings and disappearing at night. I think this is to make us believe that like her family, her marriage is also a sham because her husband is living a double life as a closeted gay man who might be spending his savings on prostitutes. Basically, these subplots say "white people aren't protecting anything, because their lives are a mess ". It shows that there is no nobility to white supremacy, just rot. With Bette's kidnapping plot, I think you kind of missed the point here. She was soliciting the milk man to do violent harm to the Emory family, but he never had that intent and was always talking about taking her away from her horrible life. Their wires were crossed. I think this was done to show that when hate is pursued to the ultimate end you can't see things clearly, and it traps you in a dark and removed place that will ultimately destroy you. I think there was some symbolism here that might have been missed.
I agree with your commentary. I feel that Betty was full of fear and hatred for people who had never done anything to her just because they were black, but was willing to put her trust in someone else that she didn’t know, just because he was white.
Great comment.
Yes completely!
Bette was jealous of the family because she couldn't how a black family could be so perfect and she was white and hers wasnt . It was hate,racism,jealousy, obsession all in one her character was going through
I agree. White supremacy is rotten to the core. One thing that really stuck out to me was the passing on of hatred to the younger generation. It’s an endless cycle. The show was definitely hard to watch. Take mental breaks while watching this.
I also wanted the racists to suffer but maybe they didn’t because the writer wanted to show how they went and still do go unpunished for the evil deeds
You are correct. I think the ending is a reflection of how racism typically goes unpunished and how that leaves the door open for racism to perpetuate in our society. At the same time, even though the Emorys didn’t seem to get the retribution they so deserved, them standing strong together at the end represents how evil outside forces tends to bond the Black family closer together. Having Nina Simone’s ‘Young, gifted, and black’ playing at the end and the last shot was of Gracie’s stoic face infers to me that our Black people are strong and won’t stand for racist bs.
@@SurrealSurrender or it can be seen as how black people continue to deal with racist bs with no accountability so all we got left is to try and lean on each other, the anger I feel watching these kind of things is why I don’t like watching these kind of things and even though people of other races watch, they still don’t truly get it or really learn anything from it so then it becomes what’s the point other than profiting of black trauma and pain by people who aren’t black so do black peoples perpetuate the violence against us by supporting/glorifying such things is the question
@@lovelydiva06 I can get behind your perspective that Black-trauma-for-entertainment-value does nothing to move the needle forward in regards to combating racism. You are right. I doubt highly that the folks that should be watching this show and learning from it are. And having us watching the brutalization of our people does nothing but hurt our mental and emotional health. My hopes is at the very least this provides a better historical documentation, even though it is a fictional horror show, of this racist country’s past better than the whitewashed history that is presently being disseminated.
Correct
The only rasists in this movie were scritpt writer and director of the movie. Even in the most evil times in USA there would never happen something like this.
Best review I’ve seen for this show so far in terms of reasoning & detail. I’m two episodes in & think it’s great so far
playstation ftw
Have you seen Episode 9 ? 😵❌
i love how they tied race and Horror together, its amazing how they let us truly feel how the characters felt. it made me cry when The Dad was getting provoked by his boss. i have anxiety and it made me feel like i was going to explode. i love it.
This show is straight trash
Because it was a horror for blacks back than
This show gave me severe Anxiety!!!
It's amazing; twilight zone mixed with American horror story, the shining, blended with toni morrisons "beloved".
It's rare to see shows like this.
Yez yez
Brilliant......and well done....it's not what's just hiding under the bed . It's what's hiding next door.....
@@starbabi77 also, what's behind your mask. The human mind plays big role!
@@israfaeldari5532 true true
There was no retaliation to the white “villains” in this movie, because that is not the black reality. We have to endure these injustices with a smile and still be crucified for actions that did not stem from us. To retaliate would be to paint the black people as the white people wanted to see them, as “beasts”. Black people in reality always had to turn the proverbial other cheek or face the consequences of standing up for themselves. Really I loved the ending. Because in reality they would be shot dead for even hitting a white man, even as rightfully deserved as it was. I don’t believe there will be a season two because I believe the husband will be shot and killed, the wife will be committed to a mental health institution elsewhere & the kids placed elsewhere to endure more mental hardship that they will have to cope with because black women are “strong”.
This is honestly one of the most thorough and thought provoking reviews I’ve seen in this. This movie has extremely complicated nuances and subtle clues based in reality that most people seem to totally have missed. But you, sir....hit the nail on the head and seem to get it!
Yeah it’s a shame it took a white person to give a an actual fair review. It’s always our own that has to tear down our artistry instead of interpreting where the artists were trying to actually convey in their story.
This review is so good and really gives the hype to gat this show deserves, everyone should watch this show
I felt like the racism and the horror of the movie blend very well.
Double horror story... All in one... Beast mode
This show was traumatic yet brilliantly executed. The way the show depicts how each member of the black family has to confront their own trauma:
The father feeling emasculated and dehumanized “tap dancing” in a white man’s world to provide the best for his family on top of his PTSD.
The mother battling very deep emotional trauma and loss while the world projects the angry black woman stereotype on her.
The eldest daughter seeing her mother’s mental breakdown being perceived as crazy and being alienated from her classmates battles hating being in her own skin.
The youngest daughter’s trauma wasn’t as clear to me but perhaps the spirit that haunted her was her coping with the loss of her mother as her teacher since losing her brother.
I also view the teacher Ms. Vera as a broader depiction of the racist ideologies deep-rooted in our education system. Additionally, Mr. Epps (the preacher) seemed to be a representation of the perversion and abuse of the Bible and Christianity as a whole to reinforce their false narrative of God ordained racist ideologies. In the end I really enjoyed how each family member overcame their trauma and came together in the end. Very deep and important message; however I will never watch this show again though.
Yes I couldn't agree or say it any better as a interpretation.
I loved the show all around, even though I felt the same as you. Angry most of the time, disgusted, sick. Episode 5 was EXTREMELY hard to watch. I kept looking away. But all around it was very well done and the acting was superb.
This show describes the black American experience to the “T”!!!
It doesn’t matter if you’re in America or Africa. Drama comes from human beings, work experience, governmental entities, adverse laws, and mental illness (or supernatural beings).
Best review of “Them”. Watched the show during the day, and that was a wise choice. Episode 5 tore me up! Needed a break (short) after that. Can’t wait for season 2.
I love your reviews. You need your own TV show, sir. I don’t know if you remember some guys name Siskel and Ebert back in the day. But it’s nice to see a seasoned movie watcher validate how I was feeling as I watched the series. Your review was spot on. I thought it was very much designed to keep you toiling and wondering and disgusted and hoping for the best but always seeing more pile on these peoples plate. And I definitely like the concept of just a 10 day series.
I binged it in about 2 days! I thought it was amazing!!!
As a black person I refused to watch this. It's black trauma porn that seems to be all the rage now-exploitation for profit.
There are so many stories that can be told about us that don't revolve around racial discrimination and injustice. Yet, movies and shows like this get the most backing to be created.
"There are so many stories that can be told about us that don't revolve around racial discrimination and injustice"....and dope dealing, rapping & playing sports...right? Come to think of it, I can't think of any black program, in
Watch it for yourself people. Stay strong! ✊🏾
I just finished this show and just found your channel as well, Chris! You've got a new sub and I love your reviews (so far, I have watched 2, one before this one.)
Coming to the show, I agree with you. That antagonist had a way too nice ending, and it actually enraged me because she deserved the worse of the worst. I hated the priest and the entire neighborhood, whether in NC, or Compton, or even the time of that priest. I guess the show worked well on me. lol. Thank you Chris! 💖🦋
I had to take a break from the show after episode 5. It’s a difficult show to binge.
It was painfully uncomfortable watching each episode, but was finally able to complete it. Just like you, the visual graphic scenes were both disturbing and disjointed. Especially, the gruesome violence aimed at the women & children. Also, the "phantom" characters like Miss Vera had no reference point as to how she fits within Epps leader of the fallen. Furthermore, the torture against Henry was uncalled for and there was never a true story arc for Clarke or for the rotten remaining in East Compton.
Im on ep2 i wonder if this is really what its like back in the day...it is really scary
When the father and husband stuffed his mouth paper towels so that no one can hear it, and screamed his frustration and anger I was done.
Yes ma'am it was. i wasn't there but the media dont tell you what really went down back in the day. its sad and scary.
yes it was and is like that, this is not made up, even more horrible things happened.
@Samuel Nowe obviously you don't know what you are talking about, people were not just hung but castrated, pregnant women hung had their babies cut out of them, black bodies used like sandbags in louisiana to protect proterty from hurricanes. Nothing that happened in that movie to black people is a lie or exaggerated. This is why these stories must be told in any form it fashion because of people like you. Do some research before blasting your ignorant opinion. And to say not that many people at that level of racism is one of the most ignorant things you can say, ever heard of the civil war. Jesus, you have to be a damn bot.
Great review. I felt the show showed the horrible abuse that black people have had to endure yet stay strong and not let it destroy them. One part that I wasn’t quite sure of was who was under the black face of the tap dance man. I expected it to be the evil preacher, but it appeared to be someone else.
Eye felt it was representing what white supremacy INTENDED for us to become to justify thier treatment of us as if its what melanated people ALWAYS were.."savages"
I just finished episode 3 after 6 months! With the political tensions in the US, it was a bit deep for me.
I do appreciate an example of the emotional and mental toll racism has on people especially when there is no justice for them. An officer tells Betty, you have to make your neighbors feel safe and you can see in her face who will make her and her family feel safe. It was a perfect expression of how many people of color feel in the US. Always micromanaging their behavior to make the tormentors feel comfortable.
Great review!
I am taking a break... it's really very intense I can't take it
This is my second time watching the entire series it's just that good to me lol you watch it the first time but the second is when the understanding comes lol
i feel most of your complaints was about betty. I felt the outcome was a bit weak and out of place. that could have been it's own series. 70 years ago things like this happened to us. People today want to pretend it didnt happen or it doesnt have lingering effects to this day.
Watching it. maybe shouldn't be commenting yet, racial horror seems a bit exploitative to me, this stuff did happen, and racism is still around but I think it kind of serves to disempower and keep contemporary black people still occupying the place of "other" and outsider in modern times as a narrative
I think it holds a mirror to show Whites how dirty they was doing us! Also boosts blacks blood to burn brighter to prove ourselves as equal even though we’ve always known that we should be treated as such. We are humans with blood pumping through our veins just like them ...except with better skin 😊
I’m not sure how knowing the history of your people’s experience is disempowering. It happened. There’s no good in hiding from it.
Your review by the way was the best review I’ve seen, you completely took your emotions out of it and called it for what it is...but I still dislike the series. For once I’d like to see BLACK HORROR without the inclusion of racism!
As a black woman I couldn’t watch season 1. It was too traumatic and close to home and experiences I had in Ohio in the early 20s. I’m watching season 2 and it’s more focused on horror.
Great review!! It’s spot on!
I don’t know if I can do this one 🥺
I watched all 10 episodes. Before I watched, I thought to myself , If I can handle "12 Years A Slave" I should be able to handle this. Nope. I was wrong. Even with the "Disturbing Content" warning at the beginning the episodes I was highly triggered. I watched it on Saturday and needed all of Sunday to calm down before going to work on Monday.
Same here. 😕 I'm so tempted, but I always empathize too much with the characters.
This series was too much for me. Scary on every scale! Sad on every scale.
The only thing that scared me were the white people .
@@British_Cocoa yea they were the real horror show!
Great Review Sir!
I couldn’t get pass the 5th episode it was to much
Great review mahn
I'm in the middle of the series. So far, it is certainly not dissimilar to Lovecraft Country. Racism the the supernatural have different foci.
Had a hard time watching episode 5. I am grown ass man and felt like shedding a tear over this episode.
I saw it. I was disturbed by it. Cat in the bag was the icing on a high blood pressure cake. The fact that they showed it in graphic detail was mind blowing. The series as a whole was well done. All of the actors did an amazing job with their craft. But in this current racial climate that we are in this didn't bring about the spirit of unity.
The sets, props, and costumes were amazing; but that photo of Chester and Lucky looked like it was shot on a phone and printed at a Walgreens. Maybe this annoyed be so much to distract me from whats actually happening. Like Betty and the wallpaper.
I won't watch this serie. Black trauma porn isn't for me. Just watching the news is enough
This series is phenomenal. But I did not like the ending, its kind of like telling us a really good story just for the end to flop and disappoint. The way they died off was not interesting at all either.
Now this is an extreme incorrect depiction of black people's reaction to strange things....We don't run to danger; we run from danger. We never investigate anything that don't look right. This man, this father kept putting his family in danger by not avoiding that which is dangerous. That is not us.
I’ve watched this movie twice I love it best film everyone needs to see this a little scary but it’s the *hit 💯😂
Erm I think I’ll stick to Emily in Paris Instead 🙃
I have not gotten notifications from u in a month.....
That is wildly bizarre!
@@MoviesAndMunchies just finished the series. I felt it was middling at best. I think they should have gotten help from someone black and older with the writing
My question is how did george get out and shoot betty?
@@ertfgghhhh I'm not sure how George survived the stab to the neck, but he didn't really appear to be bleeding much when he climbed out fo the bunker.
@@MoviesAndMunchies i didnt really like the dialogue. Unrealistic. And the way lucky was acting towards her neighbors, she wouldve been jailed after the first gun incident
@@ertfgghhhh I definitely get that. But I think the way the sheriff was bought off in order to "keep the peace" so the white bank owners could drive out the white families to replace them with Black families allowing them to then drive up the prices to make the new Black families default on the loans only to flip the properties again justified why the Emory's were sort of "protected" within the community. (I certainly know it wasn't protection, but abhorrent greed and control.) I hope all that made sense :-)
Am I the only one who finds the narration extremely irritating?
I thought she made up the other moms!
It’s terrible... great acting beautiful set. That’s all it has going for it. It’s not scary one little bit the plots all over the place at the end you’re left with more questions than answers. 4/10
Just finished it, I NEVER WANT TO SEE THAT SHIT EVER AGAIN IN LIFE! MY STOMACH IS IN AGONIZING PAIN!!!! I have a headache! I want to vomit!!!! Please NEVER MAKE ANYTHING LIKE THIS EVER AGAIN!
...but you made it through 10 episodes, interesting.
Yea sis it just better to watch it on the news
I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT MOVIE. BUT I WAS DISTURBED AS TO HOW IT BRINGS OUT US AS BEING "THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL" BUT IT DOES IT IN A DARK "HIDDEN" WAY.
Psalm 83:3-5
King James Version
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy """hidden ones."""
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
Better off watching the HBO's documentary Exterminate all the Brutes then this Trauma Porn!
Trauma Porn was all I kept thinking to myself especially around Episode 5 & that cat in the bag scene.
I don’t understand why the creator thought this horrific show needed to be made. History speaks for itself and the present day state of America is horrific enough living in black skin. We didn’t need the reminder. All we have to do is wake up everyday and make attempts at surviving amongst those that don’t see us as equals.
This show was straight trash 🗑 wife heard about it in Facebook & what a waste of my time this was some knock off Lovecraft Country. Such a slow as show with alot of unesscary racism that don't add to the story at all its as if Little Marvin provided them an idea then they filled in the season with this trash check the writing credits Little Marvin only credited with the last episode. Great acting & fantastic cast but horrible story very predictable 😑 & scripts just such bad writing
I've been really enjoying this show recently, but there is a comedic (or maybe sad) irony that black people moving to Compton eventually did ruin the neighborhood.
This is the most disturbing and uncomfortable show I've ever watched.😳
The hate in this story is so intense. I have to take my time watching it. This review is good.
Same I had to watch this in doses.
It really is can’t binge watch it might be traumatic one scene you know which cat in a bag I’ll remember that horrific shit for a decade
The show is really that bad. Like it's addicting af for about the first 5 episodes then becomes woke illogical boring trash for the second half.
Real life was worse, Tiffany.
@@superimposedfun fr! Like i was not expecting that too happen like that shit was crazy!
THEM..held my attention..it made me upset, scared and all types of emotions. The housing discrimination part still exist today all though not as prevlant. I truely feld dumbfounded after binging the entire series.
I can’t say it was good because it was evil. It was definitely ENGAGING.
Its supposed to be Horror. And it was.
@@Wolfsheim23 it was more than a horror film...
@@Wolfsheim23 it’s a horror that many black people and our loved ones who still are living have experienced i think it’s sick no one would ever make a horror about the holocaust people don’t even view us as human
@@anna-mariadavis5914 Sure they did, several horror movies containing Holocaust events and situations. Horror movies are to horrify, don't watch them if you don't like them. The racism is only part of the horror in the series. The rest is typical haunting tropes. Are you saying they are exploiting the racist horror elements?
Finished the season last night...upset the entire time but I couldnt turn it off. The acting was amazing, brutally honest. Ready for season 2.
Yes amazing acting and Lucky was so gorgeous!
Brutally honest? So you think that showing white people like this is brutally honest?
Inge Laimite Do you think White people Weren’t like this? Why not show them like they were?
@@deborahfrederick916 everyone? Oh, come on! And sorry but who sold slaves to white people? And who gave freedom to black people in USA? Again white people. You know what? Just go to the Africa, see how black people live there and then compare their life with black people's life in USA, ok? And after that tell me how bad are white people.
Did you watch season 2?
This is the best review of Them, that I've read so far. This isn't a series to binge though, especially after episode 5.
Ep 5 was truly devastating.
Exactly I had to take a break they went to far with that child murder scene. !!!
@@MoviesAndMunchies I appreciate you keeping the reviews spoiler free. It's a shame that some of your subscribers are not capable of the same courtesy.
@@British_Cocoa thanks for the spoiler
Yea u had to take a break after cat in the bag
was like IT but instead of Pennywise manipulating child fears. The entity in this neighborhood lives off the racism that exists and it stirs the pot until it's tension goes through the roof
If only white people overall realize this series is giving them insight of the trauma that black people has been and still deal with in society. It’s more than just a storyline people.
For some this is just another entertaining horror series that can be switched off at any moment if they feel uncomfortable. For others it's an example of the racism they are forced to deal with in daily life that can't simply be switched off.
Bette storyline is meant to show how she’s constantly let down by and abused by white men (her dad, husband, the cop, the milk man, her neighbor, the bank teller) but that at the end of the day, she needs them to survive at every turn. They ultimately turn out to be her demise while she’s focused on the irrational perceived threat of black families
I think it would piss me off. I try to stay away from things like this. Thanks for your review.
I messed up and watched it anyway
Yeah, I love horrors but this one I wasnt going to watch however this reviewer changed my mind.
It probably will. I was pissed 20 minutes into episode 1.😂🤣
it's 10 episodes of black people being traumatized. Spoiler: babies are murdered, women are raped, people are lynched. Don't waste your time on this trauma porn. A tv show/movie is not good just because it shows black people being brutalized. This seems to be something Hollywood does not understand. Personally I am tired of this stuff.
@@Ray03595 they literally can't make a movie with us without racism and gangs
I see your sub count is going up bud, proud of you. I haven't checked in on you for awhile but I see you're only getting better with your reviews & analysis 👊🏽👊🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks friend! I appreciate that!
The history of Black people in America was and still is a true horror story! I will pass on this show!!
Well. This is perhaps one of the most truthful accounts I've watched in awhile that chronicles the black experience in the good ole USA. Episode 5 was especially frightening. Mission accomplished Little Marvin & Lena Waithe. To compare this to Jordan Peele or anyone else doesn't do this art justice. Acknowledging that in it's most original form we all take inspiration from other great minds we admire. I will watch your review after I have the chance to watch this again because I missed tons of Easter eggs left for us to decipher.
Wait until you watch Episode 9. 😵❌
Yippee! Thanks for the M & M. I enjoy reading reviews AFTER I watch media. It gives me the chance to flex my mental muscle. No knock on others prefer to dip their toe in the pool to test the water. I have been disappointed by the studio hype too many times. There are more let downs than thumbs up streaming currently.
"Episode 5 was especially frightening...To compare this to Jordan Peele or anyone else doesn't do this art justice..."
📽🎬🎞 Yes sir, 8, 9, and 10!
This was an incredible gift I think people everywhere need to see right now. This is what white people, my people, have done. It's hard to watch but you can't look away. I sobbed with her when the cat in the bag scene was happening. And when the daughter painted herself white. Omg I lost it again.
@@lillaurap
Great that you went away having learned a few things (not speaking on the show's supernatural components).
FOR INSTANCE 📚 (Episode 9):
The Oregon black exclusion laws were attempts to prevent black people from settling within the borders of the settlement and eventual U.S. state of Oregon. The first such law took effect in 1844, when the Provisional Government of Oregon voted to exclude black settlers from Oregon's borders. The law authorized a punishment for any black settler remaining in the territory to be whipped with "not less than twenty nor more than thirty-nine stripes" for every six months they remained. Additional laws aimed at African Americans entering Oregon were ratified in 1849 and 1857. The last of these laws was repealed in 1926. The laws, born of anti-slavery and anti-black beliefs, were often justified as a reaction to fears of black people instigating Native American uprisings.
Good that you learned some actual U.S. history simply by watching a horror series. 💡
I am stuck on Episode 9 because my husband fell asleep and I can't watch it alone. Daaamn, never had anxiety because of a tv show😰
This was a great review. I binge-watched it and it is an emotional rollercoaster. I enjoyed it overall. I don't think I could binge it again, but I do want to go back and watch certain episodes for things I might have missed. This series touches on so many subjects, and it is written to keep you uncomfortable the entire time. The racism, bigotry and violence is in your face definitely, but I can only imagine that is how it was for most black families in the 1950s. The actors did an outstanding job at making us feel what they felt, or making us love and/or hate them. I can't wait for season 2!
Great review. You nailed the nuances of the characters and understood the heaviness of the time period.
I just binged the whole season today 😱🙈 kept me on edge the whole day 😵😲
I agree with your review. This is addictive, its deep, I was angry, sad and scared, but could not stop watching! You are right, great review! The actors and actress 👏 are great! Racism, low self esteem, mental illness due to Racism and trauma
I just finished this series today . What’s crazy is that I had to deal with racism this morning and almost went angry black women crazy on they ass. This series was amazing but Im angry as a black women that my culture had to and still endures this racism bull shit🤬 I hate it I HATE IT. Humanity ain’t shit and still ain’t shit.
This makes me think this was done for them, by them, with their narrative. I only watched until the despicable, hag sang about her daddy's favorite song about"old black joe". I am not impressed or preoccupied with Black misery, trauma, or pain. The horror is allowing this trash to be broadcast
Man I agree with everything u said...it was fkn intense and awesome on so many levels...
Love your reviews. I like how detailed you are without providing many spoilers. I usually come to your channel first before I decide to check out a movie/series...to see if it’s worth my time. I’ve been on the fence about THEM...but you gave it 4 1/2 couches, so I may check it out. Thanks 👍🏾
Yep, you're right, he does a great job without telling spoilers.
George Lucas burnt thru his disney billions and now does video reviews on the tube.
LOL!
Ded
Never seen your show before but I wouldn't give this show any couches this trash can stay on the floor.
Them is wild but entertaining on a high level
I find the way you describe this disturbing this isn’t some wonderful horror film based on fiction, it’s based on real things black people have went through and still go through in this country that hasn’t changed as much as we’d like to believe, I don’t find it the least bit entertaining nor is it my kind of entertainment, I don’t like people especially who aren’t black profiting off black pain and trauma as entertainment especially if people of other races take nothing from it
This series is torture porn like the movie Antebellum. Both, quite offensive and ultimately miss the mark.
Lessened learned. Prepared to defend me and my family completely and thoroughly if any racist tried any of that stupid ass shit on my wife and kids.And thats the real. This ain't the 50s no more. This series did nothing but awaken serious anger.Where is the evenly balanced education and uplift?
This movie is pure trauma porn. 10 episodes of nothing more than inflicting the worst acts you can imagine upon black ppl who loose in the end.
Jealousy was big in the film ... the white community seemed very intimidated about the Emory family ability to afford to live in the community..
I've never felt so much emotion from a series... fucking phenomenal
I’m only on episode two, but great review! ☺️
That's where I'm at too. This isn't something I can binge watch
Thanks! It's a lot to take in all at once!
Wait until you see Episode 9. 😵❌
@@m.worthy I actually thought 9 was worst than 5... 🥴😳
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9 is an INDELIBLE story.
Nona Parker Johnson (Episode 9, pregnant woman 'Martha') is every bit as gorgeous as Ayorinde. Nona has great facial features & structure. Everyone in Episode 9 executed their respective roles outstandingly. 📽 🎬 🎞
As for the episode being "worse" (in terms of intensity, violent content), I wouldn't disagree with you. In Episode 5 you see an implied rape & infant murder sequence, while in 9 you saw three protagonists mutilated & murdered (Martha, Grafton, and the baby still in Martha's womb). Also, as wicked and evil as the heinous antagonists in Episode 5 are, Episode 9 is on another level because it shows how biblical passages were once contorted for use as racist dogma, and there are direct supernatural influences/manipulations giving flame to the episodes atrocities.
Episode 9 is perhaps the most indelible full episode to me, and absolutely among the favored three episodes of the full ten.
I watched three episodes in a row and I suddenly feel terrible inside. I can only take this show in small doses. Cat in a bag episode had me sobbing. As a horror buff it takes a lot to move me but this show has me feeling sick and sad and so damn angry.
Your review is excellent, you get straight to the point.
I watched all ten episodes since Friday and I loved it because it was terrifyingly stunning TV. Yes it is as sinsiter as hell and shows some horrific trauma happening to my fellow humans and that was hard to watch but once you get thru that , what we have here is a stunningly beautiful story of love,hate,pain, trauma and strength and for me it is one of the best horror based TV shows I have ever seen. I have not been this excited about a horror show since the first three seasons of American horror story back when it was original and unique. The direction & production values and or course the acting in THem is top notch and I cannot wait for a new story in seaosn two. This series is a masterclass in horror.... I did ask myself what would a black person think watching this show and I guess like anything it will have its fans and those who detest all it stands for. It is a show that will divide many I'm sure of that.
Yeah I’m not sure anyone of color wants to or enjoys any form of a show or movie showing brutal scenes of rape, murder etc. I don’t know if I would define it as beauty as well..
The sad thing is that we can't get past the hardships and enjoy the "beauty" of the show because it is real life. Just appreciate the privilege you have to look over the trauma and see it as simply a horror film and not your reality.
@@niaparker3820 I hear what you are saying and I do understand the context of the show and how painful it is and I the things I find disturbing in it are the nature of human beings and how they treat others., That is what makes it scary , of course it's not nice to see things that my fellow humans relate to but there are lots of things in TV and movies that effect me , being a gay disabled man I ave seen lots of movies and shows that portray people like me as weak or pathetic or being victimised and bullied , so I do understand the prejudice to some degree however when I watch something like this I always appreciate what it's saying and how it may effect but having seen all of this show it really does become a show about family, love and strength and it's those parts that I admire the most....
I looooved this movie. I was so choked when I finished the last episode
Great review as always! I’ll be starting this tonight.
Thank you for your perspective it definitely cleared up some questionable segments. Great job!
Great review, thank you. I totally enjoyed the series
If you're talking about the ending to the other protagonist I think you missed the point. Or I thought too much into it. She was put down because she had the opportunity to take everything she ever wanted. A man to love her truly, give her freedom, and a safe home with a beautiful landscape. She decided to walk back into hell knowing nothing there was to be gained. That's racism.
I couldn't past episode one, too triggering for me, but this was a good review.
You made a good choice 👍🏽