Them (2021)

Matt Roush says...

The racially charged horror anthology returns with its original star, Deborah Ayorinde, in a new role and a new decade for its second season. (Season 1 took place in the 1950s during the Great Migration.) The Scare is set in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, a locale and era made infamous by the Rodney King beating in 1991 and the subsequent 1992 riots. Ayorinde stars as LAPD homicide detective Dawn Reeve, whose latest gruesome case suggests the work of a serial killer, although as one observer declares, “No human is capable of that kind of evil.” Pam Grier, a veteran of the genre, co-stars as her mother, Athena, who you’d think would be fierce enough to help Dawn’s family survive any malevolent threat.

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