Shahadi Wright Joseph never set out to be a trailblazer. But prominent roles in Amazon Prime’s new terror anthology Them and Jordan Peele’s horror flick Us, before it, have made her just that.
In both instances, Wright Joseph has been featured as one of four beautiful dark-skinned leads, and not by coincidence. Them creator Little Marvin says he cast Wright Joseph and her mahogany-hued TV family, the Emorys, the way he did because no other small-screen offerings currently have a family that looks like them. Rather, previous TV series such as Family Matters have been the rare exception.
In both instances, Wright Joseph has been featured as one of four beautiful dark-skinned leads, and not by coincidence. Them creator Little Marvin says he cast Wright Joseph and her mahogany-hued TV family, the Emorys, the way he did because no other small-screen offerings currently have a family that looks like them. Rather, previous TV series such as Family Matters have been the rare exception.
- 4/13/2021
- by Mekeisha Madden Toby
- TVLine.com
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Them Season 1.
For four episodes, Them built up the mystery of what happened to poor Baby Chester.
More from TVLineTHEM Premiere: In Amazon's Terror Anthology, the Neighbors Are Racist and the Ghosts Are, Too — Grade It!Alison Pill Previews Them's Bigoted Betty: 'She Is the Original Karen'Lily Rabe Talks Tell Me Your Secrets' Big Finale Twist: Emma 'Absolutely' Is 'Still Terrified of [Spoiler]'
And then Episode 5 happened, and suddenly the new Amazon Prime terror anthology from Little Marvin and Lena Waithe, which premiered Friday, turned into something else. What that something else is has...
For four episodes, Them built up the mystery of what happened to poor Baby Chester.
More from TVLineTHEM Premiere: In Amazon's Terror Anthology, the Neighbors Are Racist and the Ghosts Are, Too — Grade It!Alison Pill Previews Them's Bigoted Betty: 'She Is the Original Karen'Lily Rabe Talks Tell Me Your Secrets' Big Finale Twist: Emma 'Absolutely' Is 'Still Terrified of [Spoiler]'
And then Episode 5 happened, and suddenly the new Amazon Prime terror anthology from Little Marvin and Lena Waithe, which premiered Friday, turned into something else. What that something else is has...
- 4/11/2021
- by Mekeisha Madden Toby
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Brooke Smith (Bombshell), Anika Noni Rose, P.J. Byrne (Black Lightning), Malcolm Mays (Snowfall), Jeremiah Birkett and Sophie Guest (The Good Nanny) are set to recur opposite Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas in Amazon’s Them (fka Them: Covenant), the first season of the anthology horror series from executive producer Lena Waithe and writer and executive producer Little Marvin. The project, from Vertigo Entertainment and Sony Pictures TV, has a two-season straight-to-series order.
Written by Little Marvin, the 1953-set Them centers on Alfred and Lucky Emory (Ayorinde and Thomas), who decide to move their family from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood. The family’s home on a tree-lined, seemingly idyllic street becomes ground zero where malevolent forces both real and supernatural threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.
Smith will play Helen Koistra, the realtor who moves the Emory family into their...
Written by Little Marvin, the 1953-set Them centers on Alfred and Lucky Emory (Ayorinde and Thomas), who decide to move their family from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood. The family’s home on a tree-lined, seemingly idyllic street becomes ground zero where malevolent forces both real and supernatural threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.
Smith will play Helen Koistra, the realtor who moves the Emory family into their...
- 12/2/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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