I am a huge fan of the "Them" series. When I saw that season 2 was coming out, I was counting down the days until it would be released. It did not disappoint. Like the first season, season 2 adds an element of supernatural horror to real life horror (police brutality, child ab*se, generational trauma) and delivers the goods in an extremely thoughtful and impactful way. This was the best episode of the series in my opinion. The throwback to things and characters in the first season gave me chills and had me shouting at the TV (in a good way). I also love that this episode is directed by TI West ("Pearl", "X", and the upcoming "Maxxxine") he is my favorite director right now. I hope Little Marvin will keep this series going for a long time to come!
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I came in not knowing what to expect
meglives10 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I haven't watched the first season, on Prime it was advertising this second season and I was needing something to watch while folding laundry and it automatically started me on the 2nd season.
Within the second episode I had a generalized idea of what I thought was happening. I knew Edmunds time frame was earlier than Dawn's. I'm not sure how I realized, I think there's another show out there at did this as well and I caught on to it. When Dawn said to the little girl in the 1st episode she had "an imaginary friend" and her mom was freaked out by the Raggedy Andy Doll and the "man with the red hair" I new it had to be Edmund. Edmund also had a Raggedy Andy.
I actually assumed Edmund was from like the 50s, assuming Dawn was born around 50s to be about 40 with a teenager. I assumed he killed himself after transforming himself into a Raggedy Andy killer after becoming obsessed with being a killer.
I knew Edmund had to have died as these were supernatural killings.
The part I was wrong about was he didn't transform, I'm not sure actually what happened there to be honest. And his timeline was only 2 years prior, not 40 like I assumed. And they were twins.
The series was really good. As I said u never watched the first season, I went in blind to this season. I didn't know what to expect to be honest. I didn't realize it would be supernatural, or not, or whatever. But I was pleasantly surprised and will watch the 1st season now.
Within the second episode I had a generalized idea of what I thought was happening. I knew Edmunds time frame was earlier than Dawn's. I'm not sure how I realized, I think there's another show out there at did this as well and I caught on to it. When Dawn said to the little girl in the 1st episode she had "an imaginary friend" and her mom was freaked out by the Raggedy Andy Doll and the "man with the red hair" I new it had to be Edmund. Edmund also had a Raggedy Andy.
I actually assumed Edmund was from like the 50s, assuming Dawn was born around 50s to be about 40 with a teenager. I assumed he killed himself after transforming himself into a Raggedy Andy killer after becoming obsessed with being a killer.
I knew Edmund had to have died as these were supernatural killings.
The part I was wrong about was he didn't transform, I'm not sure actually what happened there to be honest. And his timeline was only 2 years prior, not 40 like I assumed. And they were twins.
The series was really good. As I said u never watched the first season, I went in blind to this season. I didn't know what to expect to be honest. I didn't realize it would be supernatural, or not, or whatever. But I was pleasantly surprised and will watch the 1st season now.
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