Review of Them

Them (2021– )
6/10
Too much going on
22 February 2024
This is about a young black family fleeing the Jim Crow south after an unspeakable tragedy looking for new fortunes in sunny California.

Sadly they are met with a white wall of hatred in a neighbourhood patrolled by a wicked, angry woman who seems to have the whole street at her back and call.

Not only that there is conspiracy, corruption and not forgetting some ghosts that make people do terrible things. So there's a lot going on here.

The initial elements of the story work well. The refusal to accept the new family and the attentions to unsettle them by the white community are so awful they are almost comical.

This along with the corruption that placed them there is probably enough content, but half way through, it feels like a different programme. There is no continuity at all. The family excluding the little girl all of a sudden become disturbingly menacing.

The ghostly sinister party to this story doesn't seem right at all. It should either play the major part or nothing at all. It becomes confusing, jumbled and pretty incoherent.

A shame after a pretty good start.
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