THEM: Prime Original Series 4/9/21(Season 2: 4/25/24)

[ABlackMan]

Might run this back this week. It’s a good show.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Finally got a chance to watch this


Holy shyt man


This show is a NIGHTMARE

Ep 5 was some shyt that made me soooooo mad

 

[mbewane]

You're giving it way too much credit.

Since you watched it and liked it though what did you think of the subplot with the racist white lady neighbor?
It was really weird how they were trying to show her backstory and then having her be kidnapped as a way to somehow make the viewer sympathize with her despite her horrific racism even though none of the shyt that happened to her with her parents had anything to do with her being a horrible person.
It just seemed like an odd pivot for the character that was being set up early on as a primary antagonist. And the kidnapping subplot just totally removed her from the rest of the show which was also an odd creative choice.

Yeah it's like they just couldn't help it and HAD to depict the white woman as somehow, someway, being a victim herself. Which really sucks because there are various other scenes that show that white woman were and are as racist as the man are, so there was no reason to turn her into a victim -twice-.

Those subplots to her backstory were not meant to make us empathetic or sympathetic towards her racist ass. It showed the hypocrisy of the things that they project on us under white supremacist ideals while they understand exactly who they are and what crimes they’re guilty of. She can’t have children because of a supposedly virtuous white man (her own father) molested her and her own supremacist bullshyt got her kidnapped and killed by being blinded by bloodthirsty hate to the danger to herself from a man with white skin. “Them” showed how our nature is everything to the opposite of theirs. We’re in our condition from trying to emulate them after desegregation (economically, socially, and spiritually) even though we like to think we haven’t and are distinct from their culture.

The love of money, not money itself, is the root of all evil and is the main culprit behind our troubles. We compromise our humanity for money to try to attain the lifestyle whites enjoy through transgressions against our own. When we were separate we stood together out of necessity and now that we’re integrated we compete with each other under the illusion we’re free. We’re still captive in Babylon and will suffer with Babylon until we leave it.

I give the show a 7.5 overall. The pacing was off, but the message for those who can discern is crystal clear.

That's an interesting analysis of it and I would tend to agree, but I still feel it somehow still goes towards "She's a racist BUT also a victim of patriarchy".

Overall this was hard to watch. It's a pity because I felt that that actors were quite good and it's well filmed, but there's just way too much degradation with little to no redemption. There were various very interesting ideas (particularly the black and white episode), but overall it just felt like too much. And the ending felt kind of rushed and inconclusive.

I totally understand the people who didn't even finish it or who are trashing it.

 

[taker597]

I completely forgot about this show.


Shame.... It had some great cinematography and moments that gets completely ruin with overindulgent suffering with no payoff. This supposed to have a 2nd season, right?

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Tbh I remember defending this show when it first came out. I've actually been thinking about it recently and ya I was wrong for trying to defend it. For the most part it was just black people constantly being bytched and punked. And the plot was pretty weak. Still worth a watch but it definitely did fall short overall.

 

[Dem313wayz]

I just started watching this show and I just finished episode 3. This is some trauma porn. It's very triggering.

Visually It's good but damn how many more shows or movies do we need about blacks beung treated as not even humans by whites

 

[head shots101]

Could not finish this shyt

After that baby shyt I tapped out

 

[TheJet]

Is Lena Waithe ass? I mean seriously

 

[wire28]

Did the black people win in the end to make the trauma porn worth it?

 

[TheJet]

I'm on ep. 7.This shyt flagrant AF mane. Black trauma porn at its most egregious. The part where

Spoiler: .

the daughter painted herself white was CRAZY

Less shyt like this and more shows like Lovecraft man.

I know Lena Waithe is attached to this, but was it written by whites?

Also, why are there only cracker ghosts? Like doesn't it make more sense that OUR ancestors would be out for revenge from beyond the grave? This shyt dumb.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

I started this when it dropped but never finished it.

 

[Blankthawtz]

Season 2....

 

[Ol’Otis]

Season 2....

Hard pass

 

[EA]

Couldn’t pay me to watch another season of this trauma porn

 

[wire28]

What a second I thought everybody hated this how in the hell they running it back??