Are you ready for Them: The Scare?
Here's a confession: when the first season of Prime Video's Them dropped back in 2021, I was there on day one. The reviews indicated the show would be grisly, intense, and not for the faint of heart, but as a lifelong horror fan that's precisely the sort of pre-release buzz I like to hear. Then I started watching Them, and, well, what can I say? Here was a beautifully made, brilliantly acted show … but one sequence in particular rattled me so thoroughly that I simply tapped out and never went back. I understand this to be my loss, but yikes.
Now we have a new season of Them to look forward to. Thus spake the press release:
“THEM will once again be set in Los Angeles (the first installment, subtitled Covenant, took place in Compton circa 1952 but will move the time frame forward to 1991). The story centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve, who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken. Navigating a tumultuous time in Los Angeles, with a city on the razor’s edge of chaos, Dawn is determined to stop the killer. But as she draws closer to the truth, something ominous and malevolent grips her and her family…”
Maybe, like me, you're wondering if Them S2 will be as intense as the first one. We'll have to wait until it drops to know for sure, but this just-released trailer indicates that it'll be just as nightmarish as the first.
Check it out:
The press release continues:
“The series cast includes Deborah Ayorinde (Riches, Harriet) as “Detective Dawn Reeve,” Pam Grier (Foxy Brown, Bones, Ghost of Mars, Jackie Brown) as “Athena,” Grammy-nominated musician and actor Luke James (The Chi, Insecure) as “Edmund Gaines.” Rounding out the cast are Joshua J. Williams (Cloak & Dagger, Mudbound), Jeremy Bobb (The Continental, God’s Country), Wayne Knight (Seinfeld, Narcos), Carlito Olivero (This Is Me… Now, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions), Charles Brice (Homeland, The Blacklist, Watchmen), and Iman Shumpert (The Chi).”
Will I make it all the way through Them: The Scare? Will the show go just as hard as it did in its first season? We'll find out when Little Marvin's masterful (and masterfully horrifying) series returns to Prime Video on April 25th. Stay tuned for further updates on this one as they roll in, folks.
