‘THEM’s’ Little Marvin on the Freeing Experience of Placing Black Actors in Old Hollywood Settings
“When you create a show like this there’s a secret little piece of you that hopes it wasn’t as relevant,” Little Marvin said.
“When you create a show like this there’s a secret little piece of you that hopes it wasn’t as relevant,” Little Marvin said.
There were meticulous details in the costuming that, at times veered into being spoilers themselves
Marvin added that the terror of navigating the country in Black skin was a secondary theme in the project.
While pain and trauma are assuredly part of the Black experience, there’s only so much a viewer can take of “THEM” before it becomes numbing and sensationalistic.
SXSW: The first two episodes of Little Marvin’s terror anthology on Amazon Prime Video are a promising start to a corrosive tale of racism.