#them amazon

My god, Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas are fine as hell. The chemistry is great.

Someone get them a romance stat. A big swelling romance.

also it's quite interesting how it's always easy to find roles for darkskinned women when they wanna portray us in torture scenes and extreme brutality but soft feminine roles, and roles where black women are loved on, they quick as fuck to cast a lightskinned girl, a lightskinned biracial - bc you could be biracial and dark skinned - or someone racially ambiguous.

it's not slick, it's not cute and it's not funny. it's disgusting and it's tired.

i'm sick and tired of whenever there being a role for a girl who looks like me, she's either confined to being the magical negro, the mammy, the sassy best friend, sidelined if she's a main character, or subject to gruesome and explicit forms of sexual assault - which the woman in #them is in episode 5.

i am so damn tired of it and so damn tired of the white creators who feed this shit to us - there were black producers but the writers were white; you could see that they were, not to say that there aren't black creators feeding us this shit too but this ain't about them atm. this shit whether in adult fiction or kids fiction is contributing to fucking up the mental health of dark skinned girls and women everywhere. for dark skinned girls who aren't secure enough in their blackness, this only feeds the self hatred because we get that colorist bullshit from our own people, and we're looked at as monsters from people outside our own race even worse because we're the darker shades of black.

it's so fucking triggering and needs to fucking stop.

Don’t watch this. Just move on not worth it

Shit storytelling

Shit writing

Pointless characters and plot threads ( by far worst one is racist Karen that goes nowhere with her hatred, gets kidnapped by a simp, and dies by him.)

Extreme violence because you know if we talking racism gotta show extreme violence :D

Ending is trash, spoiler family just walks outside their house with cops pointing guns at them fades to black.

Piss poor knock off of Us. As a black person I found no good qualities expect for TWO scenes that barely lasted to be enjoyed. Just never ending trauma pain ride 

If still wish watch this trainwreck of a show avoid episode 5 and 6 because it serves nothing but torture porn upon black people and a child(s) 

I hate everything about Them. The cast deserve better. This show will be in golden globe because feeling bad for black people media is an easy win in Hollywood. If this show gets an reward it goes directly to the cast and crew  make-up/stylist and props of the setting. Fuck the writers they deserve NOTHING

0/10 show will never watch again. 

I have zero problems with black horror featuring racism if it can be done right. This wasn’t. This could’ve been such good story about mental illness and grief within black families but even that got screwed up because nobody bothered to consult anyone else besides the producer who’s black but even they had no part of writing staff expect for episode 5 ( the worst episode). I never felt so bored, angry, and disgusted by a show and I tend handle extreme fictional content. I cared for no one especially the black family. For show that supposedly for me a black woman I felt zero of that. 

I got 5 on it by Luniz being remixed to sound scary and sinister for the movie Us was good it was unexpected they added more strings and only used a few lyrics "creep on in"

In 1919 after an altercation between four men left a White sheriff dead. All chaos ensued and a small massacre in a Black town was carried out by ..... you guessed it ....a mob of angry White men.

This Black family was on their way to a festival. I just think about how Black people historically ( despite their history of intense trauma ) still tried enjoy life, be human, grow, evolve, progress, and create a legacy for their family’s. And I think of how Whiteness never allowed or allows that. To be Black in America is to have your humanity constantly interrupted.