Is Amazon’s ‘Them’ Too Violent for Us to Watch?

When racialized horror gets too deep, some viewers tune in while others tune out

Ronda Racha Penrice
ZORA
Published in
6 min readApr 12, 2021

--

Amazon’s Them (officially Them: Covenant) is out, and let’s just say Twitter has largely not been here for it. Over the weekend, the series trended heavily. Executive producer Lena Waithe was dragged relentlessly as many erroneously pegged her as the…

--

--

Ronda Racha Penrice
ZORA
Writer for

ATL-based Ronda Racha Penrice is a writer/cultural critic specializing in film/TV, lifestyle, and more. She is the author of Black American History For Dummies.