During Amazon’s presentation at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event, Them creator Little Marvin spoke about exploring “the terror of navigating this country and Black skin.”
The anthology series takes place in the 1950s during the Great Migration and centers on the Emory family, Henry and Lucky, who decide to move from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood. The family’s home on a tree-lined, seemingly idyllic street becomes ground zero where malevolent forces both real and supernatural threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.
“What I hadn’t seen before in a story was the tension between the public and the private space and that most private of spaces, which is the home,” said Marvin, who was joined on the virtual panel by stars Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas. “The home is meant to be your safest of safe spaces. When the world outside your home is crazy,...
The anthology series takes place in the 1950s during the Great Migration and centers on the Emory family, Henry and Lucky, who decide to move from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood. The family’s home on a tree-lined, seemingly idyllic street becomes ground zero where malevolent forces both real and supernatural threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.
“What I hadn’t seen before in a story was the tension between the public and the private space and that most private of spaces, which is the home,” said Marvin, who was joined on the virtual panel by stars Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas. “The home is meant to be your safest of safe spaces. When the world outside your home is crazy,...
- 5/15/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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