Little Marvin’s new limited fiction and anthology will premiere on the Amazon Prime Video platform soon.
Amazon Studios is working on a new horror series created by Little Marvin and Lena Waithe. This is Them, a 10-episode limited anthological fiction that explores fear in the United States, all in a racial key. Although the premiere in this country is confirmed for April 9 on Amazon Prime Video, the date in Spain has not yet been announced. Be that as it may, the platform has posted an official teaser trailer that has taken our breath away, because it uses a seemingly innocent Dusty Springfield theme, and then squirms to the beat of the images. In the video, they point out that it will debut “soon.”
The first season is set in the 1950s, a time when racial discrimination against African Americans was widespread on American soil. The protagonists are a black family that moves to North Carolina, but ends up in a white neighborhood in Los Angeles during The Great Migration. On the surface, everything seems to indicate that they are in an idyllic place, but the reality is quite different. The family coexists in the epicenter of terror, where malevolent forces, both from this world and beyond, conspire to make life impossible for them and destroy them once and for all.
The teaser for ‘Them’ gives a bad vibes that you die. Imagine what the series is going to be. Coming soon to Prime Video. pic.twitter.com/Ktl4iATWHf
– Prime Video Spain (@PrimeVideoES) March 10, 2021
A reminder of racial problems
Deborah Ayorinde (Luke Cage), Ashley Thomas (24: Legacy) and Shahadi Wright Joseph (Us) are some of the actors who are part of the cast of the series. Amazon Studios has commissioned two seasons that will follow the vein of American Horror Story or The Curse of Hill House, that is, each of them will tell different stories.
“The Little Marvin script stayed with me for weeks after I read it,” said executive producer Lena Waithe in a statement collected by The Hollywood Reporter. “He has written something that is provocative and terrifying. The first season will talk about how scary it was to be black in 1953. It will also remind us that being black in 2018 is just plain horror. This anthology will examine the cultural divisions between us. “
Source | Amazon
