Amazon has already launched some exciting horror series. But none are as disturbing and scary as Them. With an average rating from the Moviepilot community of a very good 7.2 points, it is even Prime Video’s best-rated horror series. After a three-year break, a new season continues.
With Them: The Fear you can now stream the sequel to the horror highlight on Amazon. However, you don’t have to have watched the first season to enjoy it eight episodes and 4.5 hours long to be able to scare with season 2.
Disturbing horror highlight on Amazon: Them breaks new ground in season 2
Them is an extremely effective, painful and, above all, important horror series, which delves deep into the pain of racism in the United States. In the wake of genre shockers like Jordan’s Peele’s Get Out and Us as well as Lovecraft Country, the opening season of Them followed the black Emory family, who move to Los Angeles in 1953 into an exclusively white suburban neighborhood. There they have to face not only racist hostility but also supernatural horrors.
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Theme Season 1
Them: Covenant (the title of season 1) is not for the faint of heart. Over a period of 10 days, the characters go through the motions absolute racism hell, whereby the topic is dealt with with ruthless severity. The ubiquity of psychological and physical escalation of violence creates one 7-hour constant state of anxiety and fear. And now the horror nightmare starts again in season 2.
For Them: You don’t need to have seen the previous season. As an anthology, the horror series tells a completely new and independent story in season 2, which is set almost 40 years later. There are still a few similarities: Los Angeles as the setting, Deborah Ayorinde as the leading actress (in a new role), the omnipresent racism and the mix of supernatural and very real horror.
In Them: The Fear the hunt for a serial killer begins
In the Los Angeles in 1991 Images of police violence shock the public after a black man named Rodney King is brutally beaten by police officers. For Detective Dawn Reeve (Deborah Ayorinde), even as a police investigator, racism is felt every day by her white, male colleagues. But a new case shakes her to the core.
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Them Season 2 creates a new horror monster
The complete twisted and disfigured corpse of a black foster mother poses a puzzle for the police. Dawn soon becomes certain that a serial killer must be behind the crime. She has no idea that with her investigations she is allowing a malicious force into her life that has already claimed numerous victims. Who is this man with red hair?
At the same time, Them: The Fear also sheds light on the story of unsuccessful actor Edmund Gaines (Luke James), who makes ends meet by working as an animal mascot for a family restaurant. But one day he gets his big chance. He can for the main role of the killer in a slasher film audition. Unfortunately, he takes his preparation for the role a little too seriously and falls into a disturbing downward spiral.
The new season of Them consists of eight episodes, which have been streaming on Prime Video since April 25, 2024. The cast of the new episodes also includes blacksploitation legend Pam Grier. Particularly exciting for horror fans: The finale was directed by Ti West, the director of one of the best horror trilogies of the moment.
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