KillbertArenas
Superstar
Sounds you like watched like two episodes
THEM: Prime Original Series 4/9/21(Season 2: 4/25/24)
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Sounds you like watched like two episodes
It's definitely not deep, though. Everything is on the surface.
djthegreat88
Superstar
Quit after episode 7. Excessive violence and racism with no actual plot. 7 episodes in and I don’t care about any of these characters. Backstory is thin and no development. Just ODing on black trauma
Me and my girls look at each other like what the fukk is this shyt
Lena Wraithe is
Me and my girls look at each other like what the fukk is this shyt
Lena Wraithe is
Made it to episode 6 and I'm done with this shyt. This is straight trauma porn against a black family. I'm legit pissed, what type of fukk shyt is this?
What's the purpose for all of this? So you mean to tell me ain't nothing going to happen to the white people on this show?
What's the purpose for all of this? So you mean to tell me ain't nothing going to happen to the white people on this show?
Ironman
#Knickstape
This review is spot on
Lena Waithe’s "Them" Exploits Black Trauma for the White Gaze
The one-note tastelessness of the drama plays into the idea that Black people are defined by their pain.
Langa
April 13 2021
Lena Waithe's highly anticipated drama series Thempremiered on Amazon Prime last week — and was immediately met with criticisms that its depictions of racism vicariously exploited Black trauma.
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Lena Waithe’s "Them" Exploits Black Trauma for the White Gaze
Instead of using racial tension to highlight the realities of being Black and facing the discrimination that was and remains rampant, Them asserts that Black life is just a series of violent traumas and suffering. The one-note tastelessness of the drama plays into the idea that Black people are defined by their pain.
In an attempt to represent and dramatize a specific experience, Lena Waithe and Little Marvin give voice to a white supremacist ideal, but they call it representation because it is played out by a Black cast and created by Black people. Yet, the gaze is defined by whiteness.
In an interview for Vogue, Waithe addressed backlash she's received for her previous projects. "If we act as though we don't have flaws, that's like saying we aren't human… All of us who are pro-Black, pro-brown, pro-queer also need to be pro our scars, pro our complexities," she said.
"Trauma is a thing that happens to us and is something we can't blame ourselves for. While this idea of not wanting to display trauma in our entertainment is understandable, it's just not sustainable," she continued. "All movies can't be nice or happy. Some of our most important pieces of art deal with our deepest pain. I want to write about what keeps me up at night."
However, Them keeps us up at night for the wrong reasons. It's a barrage of brutality that offers no hope, no path for healing, and, in Waithe's own words, no "complexity."
The characters are tropes, and the show is ridden with cliches from the moment the family steps onto the neighborhood and the white Stepford wife-type character says, "This is how it begins. How it changes. With one family."
The lack of nuance and the horrific sequences just remind us how we are seen — even by the people who look like us: as vehicles for violence.
OnFleekTing
Superstar
I finally finished the season
good thing this is an anthology show
This is the type of media we need more of but the actual black traumatic experiences throughout this show are really making it hard to watch
I mean white people will avoid this show like the plague because any depiction of racism to them nowadays is gratuitous but for a black audience seeing a black family be tortured mentally ,physically, and spiritually by everything around them no matter how realistic it may be for the time period is a hard watch
I mean this show is like the black version of american horror story but without the fun and escapism
Hopefully next season gives the new characters some happiness
good thing this is an anthology show
This is the type of media we need more of but the actual black traumatic experiences throughout this show are really making it hard to watch
I mean white people will avoid this show like the plague because any depiction of racism to them nowadays is gratuitous but for a black audience seeing a black family be tortured mentally ,physically, and spiritually by everything around them no matter how realistic it may be for the time period is a hard watch
I mean this show is like the black version of american horror story but without the fun and escapism
Hopefully next season gives the new characters some happiness
ABlackMan
Superstar
Some of the reviews look like they come from black people that haven’t went through any shyt in their lives. Idk everything ain’t for everybody
Anybody got more pics of the wife? She’s sexy as fukk
R.E.N. Spells Ren
Veteran
Agree with everyone saying is trash trauma porn. And the writing was beyond dumb. The husband was written like an idiot, tho he was supposed to be a sympathetic figure he was actually a torturer himself. His child, only son, is senselessly and brutally murdered by some racist CaCs in North Carolina which drives his wife to the brink of insanity, so he decides to move his family to an all white neighborhood in California?
An all white neighborhood with overtly racist covenants written into their deeds?
An all white neighborhood with people giving them nasty looks as they drive up?
Despite having family in a Black neighborhood he and his family could fellowship with as they adjust to life in a new place?
I guess they were trying to make us empathize with him being broken up that he went to the movies instead of being their to protect his wife/son, especially after his wife asked him not to go, but adding that backstory only makes him look terrible. They, unintentionally (I think), wrote him to be a c00n.
Who wants to root for a c00n facing white supremacy?
An all white neighborhood with overtly racist covenants written into their deeds?
An all white neighborhood with people giving them nasty looks as they drive up?
Despite having family in a Black neighborhood he and his family could fellowship with as they adjust to life in a new place?
I guess they were trying to make us empathize with him being broken up that he went to the movies instead of being their to protect his wife/son, especially after his wife asked him not to go, but adding that backstory only makes him look terrible. They, unintentionally (I think), wrote him to be a c00n.
Who wants to root for a c00n facing white supremacy?
My wife was mad at me for watching this and tryna get her to watch it...
I found it very disturbing without a resolution or insightful ending to justify all thea horror...
The only part I found entertaining was when the father was talking to the Sambo demon ...i think that was creatively put together
I found it very disturbing without a resolution or insightful ending to justify all thea horror...
The only part I found entertaining was when the father was talking to the Sambo demon ...i think that was creatively put together
Take It In Blood
Banned
Minus racism and demonic entities
Compton being clean and crime free got me feeling some type of way
the lead actress is the definition of a black beauty tho
Compton being clean and crime free got me feeling some type of way
the lead actress is the definition of a black beauty tho
