Your favorite pop star has fewer than 26 Grammys? Then you would probably have little chance of surviving the new horror series Swarm of Bees (originally: Swarm). This has been streaming on Amazon Prime Video since March 17th and tells the disturbing story of an obsessive fan on a bloodlust.
For series fans there is actually no way around the new serial killer production. The creative minds behind it are Donald Glover, who recently created an incomparable masterpiece with Atlanta, and Atlanta co-author Janine Nabers. Swarm of Bees is basically Atlanta’s beastly little sister.
This is what awaits you in the horror series Swarm of Bees on Amazon Prime Video
What is Swarm of Bees about anyway? This question is not that easy to answer. Because each of the total 7 half-hour episodes is its own little cosmos with different themes and sometimes extreme genre changes. But one thing connects them all: a young black woman named Dre (Dominique Fishback).
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Dominique Fishback in Swarm of Bees
Dre is a so-called Stan, a hardcore fan of the singer Ni’jah. This pop icon is essentially a fictionalized version of superstar Beyoncé, and the show is making no secret of it. This is made clear by the note before each episode:
This is not a fictional work. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or actual events is intentional.
After a terrible personal tragedy, something dark awakens inside Dre. A trip through different cities begins for her, during which her obsessive fan love repeatedly escalated into bloody peaks of violence – as soon as a person insults his great idol.
The different scenarios, which are often reminiscent of Atlanta’s most bizarre standalone episodes, include an escalating road trip with strippers, an oppressive relationship drama or an unexpected true crime documentary that turns the concept of the series upside down meta-wise.
Swarm of Bees is serial killer horror of a special kind
A special highlight is the 4th episode with the Guest appearance by one of the biggest pop stars of our time attends. Here Dre falls unnoticed into the clutches of a cult masquerading as a female empowerment group. A meditation session with the cult leader becomes a disturbing homage to the hypnosis scene from Get Out.
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Dre would kill for her idol
Against the background of the fictional processing of real events and rumors surrounding Beyoncé (from the Lemonade release to the “Who bit Beyoncé?“-Riddle) bee swarm tells the coming-of-rage story of a black serial killer who reinvents herself episode by episode.
Each new stop on Dre’s journey sheds light on another phase of her killer metamorphosis. Dominique Fishback’s performance is the big highlight of the series and shows her impressive versatility, with new facets of Dre’s identity with each episode are illuminated and thus almost different characters emerge.
As angry look at fandoms and toxic twitter trolls swarm of bees usually achieves its effect. Even if the gag “A Beyoncé fan becomes a killer” is a bit overused, the series impresses with its fantastic leading actress with disturbing moments of violence, the biting horror satire and the artistic staging with coarse-grained film aesthetics and an overwhelming image format.
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