The second instalment of Little Marvin’s anthology series Them: The Scare(2024) takes us to 1992 Compton (California), a moment in history when simmering racial tensions in the US where about to reach a boiling point following the acquittal of four white police officers involved in Rodney King’s brutal assault. This new seasonfollows two intertwined plotlines that will end up intersecting towards the end of the show: on the one hand, African American LAPD Detective Dawn Reeve is investigating a series of bizarre murders connected to a mysterious supernatural entity. On the other hand, hapless Edmund Gaines is a Black struggling actor trying to make it as a thespian while facing a profound sense of alienation and emotional adrift.
Sergio García Jiménez (Wed,) studied this question.