Them certainly feels like it's trying to take its own place in this genre, and some of the comparisons seem pretty overt (the fact that the show cast Joseph, the daughter from Us, in a show called Them, and then in the third episode borrows the same Minnie Riperton song that plays over the Us final reveal feels … intentional, to say the least).
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Jordan Peele's spectacular films Get Out and Us and the HBO series Watchmen and Lovecraft Country have all found success in setting the insidiousness of real-life racism against terrifying and often supernatural terrors more often found in the unnatural realms of horror. We're in the middle of a thriving moment for social issues being presented through the lens of horror and genre fiction - specifically issues of racism and America's racist past (as they relate to its racist present). Pilot director Nelson Cragg layers on the horror trappings from the very beginning, including a cold open set in North Carolina featuring the character actress Dale Dickey as a menacing figure that sets the dread to high, and a series of title cards straight out of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre promising that the ten days the Emorys spend at their new house on Palmer Drive will be a harrowing experience indeed. As he, Lucky, and their two daughters Ruby (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Gracie (Melody Hurd) are moving in, the dirty looks they receive from the neighbors are an early indication of the hell that's in store for the Emorys, but it's by no means the first one. He's gotten a job as an engineer at the local aerospace plant, another situation where he'll be the only Black employee in his field. Henry chooses the picturesque (and almost exclusively white) community of Compton over an area like Watts because of the upward mobility it promises. This ten-episode first season, called Them: Covenant, centers on the Emory family, who leave traumatic circumstances in North Carolina to move to California during the Great Migration of the 1950s.
Them is the first in a proposed multi-season anthology horror series from creator Little Marvin and executive producer Lena Waithe. Henry Emory (Ashley Thomas), the patriarch of the Black family at the center of Them, the new anthology series on Amazon that debuts this week, tells his wife, Lucky (Deborah Ayorinde) "this house is ours" in the first episode, and while he means it about the all-too-human threats to their home and family after they move to a seemingly idyllic neighborhood in sunny Compton, California in 1953, the sinister supernatural forces we the viewer have already seen at the edges of the show make it clear that the other interpretation will also apply. But taken literally, in a real-world context, when a person or a family must assert the right to live in their own space, and to keep safe from malevolent - yet very much human - forces outside, that terror takes on a new meaning. "This house is ours" is a refrain we've heard in countless horror stories, haunted house tales, and other supernatural narratives.
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