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Them， the most recent horror collection series to hit screens from Amazon Prime Video, with the premise of investigating fear in America. Executive produced by Lena Waithe and co-made by filmmaker Little Marvin, Them follows the stylish verifiable/repulsiveness mashup sort as of late made mainstream by Us, Get Out and Lovecraft Country. While this highlights various fundamentally significant messages, Them is absolutely perhaps the most tense and troublesome shows ever watched.

The series makes it clear from the beginning that what will unfold over this season occurs inside a short 10-day time. From the beginning, they are met with overwhelming hostility, as the neighbors all camp outside their new home and blast their radios, sitting in the middle of the street. Episode one ends with the white neighbors poisoning their dog, and this disgusting act inspires Lucky to stand up to them, Henry's gun in hand. But it only makes the neighbors turn their disgusting fear into even more vitriolic hatred.

Each of the Emorys has an arc that could sustain its own movie, but having an intertwining saga of different descents into madness related to identity and racism. Henry starts his job as an engineer, the only black in such position. He previously served in World War II, and has proven himself in the field, but he knows that his current environment tells him he has to endure it. His rage then leads to a relationship with a supernatural figure with disturbing historical relevancy. 14-year-old daughter Ruby (Shahadi Wright Joseph) wants to be nothing like her mother, and faces her own racism at school. Then there's young Gracie, the youngest and least developed member of the family, who has her own visions at the Emory home, related to a book she's been learning from.

The setting for all of this is the ornate, hollow suburbia of the 1950s, in which we get loving glimpses of immaculate living rooms and gaudy wallpaper, not to mention the occasional TV set and plenty of pristine dresses. It's as elegant as the show's cinematography, which is constantly in pursuit of one perfect shot. Even though there’s so much suffering in "Them" as it drags from episode to episode in the first half, the style nearly takes over. Style becomes “Them”’s way of getting the audience to pay attention to the immense pain and anger that it portrays, but instead it helps push out the vital human nuance.

Stream Or Skip? Them got rich creation esteems and a strong cast and a fundamental grotesqueness to the racial oppression that overpowers other panic factors. This show has the amazing and vital style to keep its crowd contributed, however the story hauls somewhat in the subsequent half.

Horrific, yet Fully Engaging!