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| Prime Video | Amazon Prime Video | Release Date: April 9, 2021 |
Summary:
The first season of the anthology series subtitled "Covenant" is set in 1950s where a black family from North Carolina move to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood where they experience both human and supernatural threats.
Genre(s):
Drama, Horror, Suspense
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S2:E8. The Box
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E7. One of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E6. Would You Like to Play a Game?
Air Date: April 25, 2024
Positive:
7
Mixed:
12
Negative:
1
Collider
Apr 2, 2021
Apr 9, 2021
Apr 7, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It gets painfully uncomfortable, particularly in the two “Covenant” episodes, but although “trauma porn” is often used to describe such renderings, there is nothing gratuitous or pornographic in its depictions of Black trauma. Perhaps in this regard, the exceptional performances of the cast are both blessing and curse.
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IndieWire
Mar 18, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The first few episodes of “THEM” are the strongest and sharpest, diving headlong into the fragile mental states of both Henry and Lucky, while also dealing with the issues their children face. However, over the course of the show’s 10 episodes, the proceedings begin to drag. ... You don’t walk away from this feeling particularly good, and that’s perhaps what Little Marvin intended, but many people don’t want to watch suffering for the sake of suffering.
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Apr 16, 2021
Apr 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Though it doesn’t lose sight of racism exactly, the show’s mind seems more firmly placed on the ways in which it might make us jump than make us think or feel. It’s an unfortunate reversal of the way series that look like it use genre to investigate race: “Them,” in the end, takes the far less interesting path of using race to investigate genre.
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Apr 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Them primarily feels empty during the first half of its run. But episode five, “Covenant I” — which is, notably, directed by the show’s only Black director, Zola’s Janicza Bravo — turns the show from a grating, hollow depiction of Blackness in America to one that revels in degrading its Black characters in a way that left me questioning both the Black creators involved and the studio system that is eager for this kind of work.
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Apr 14, 2021
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Apr 12, 2021
Very riveting and measured. Performances are good. Suspense is well. Eye-opening setting.
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Apr 18, 2021
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Apr 25, 2021
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Apr 16, 2021
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Apr 28, 2021
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Jun 9, 2021
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Seasons & Episodes
- Series Overview
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Season 2
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Season 2 Overview
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E8. The Box
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E7. One of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E6. Would You Like to Play a Game?
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E5. Luke 8:17
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E4. Happy Birthday, Sweet Boy
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E3. The Man With the Red Hair
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E2. The Devil Himself Visited This Place
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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S2:E1. Are You Scared?
Air Date: April 25, 2024
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Season 2 Overview
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: April 9, 2021
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Season 1 Overview