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Bipitybopityboop · 10/04/2021 23:28

Anyone seen this?

It's horrifying.

That people behaved like this.
Where was the humanity?

A lot of those people are still alive. Are they even sorry?

I am only on episode one and it's making me feel so terrible for the black family.

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SunsetBeetch · 11/04/2021 16:47

I've just started watching it. That trick with the radios on their front lawn Shock No doubt it will get worse too.

It looks beautiful and is well acted too so far. Think I'm going to have to binge this one!

AdditionalCharacter · 14/04/2021 19:07

Just on to episode 3 now.

I thought it would be able segregation, but there's something sinister and spooky going on as well.

The way the white people are behaving is disgusting, it's so hard to get your head around the way black people have been treat, and still are.

JackieTheFart · 14/04/2021 21:53

I've just started ep 2. It's very upsetting. Very well acted.

I've listened to quite a few podcasts about stuff like this, and it just makes me sick to my stomach. The way people behaved, and continue to behave around difference. It's despicable.

JackieTheFart · 14/04/2021 22:16

I don't think I'm going to be able to watch this whole thing. Ruby has just been chucked out of class for being 'distracting' when she answered a question and the class started hooting at her. It's making me cry.

happinessischocolate · 14/04/2021 22:18

What channel is this on?

SunsetBeetch · 14/04/2021 22:20

Amazon Prime.

Bipitybopityboop · 14/04/2021 22:46

It's so disturbing.
I feel so terribly sad for the black family.

When the white boy pees on the black family's clean laundry.
And when she chases the boy she looks like the crazy one.

And there is some sort of supernatural element to it. Which I wish was omitted as the story itself is so compelling.

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JackieTheFart · 14/04/2021 22:55

I know it feels like two different things happening at the same time.

This is how I feel when I watch Schindler's List; like I know it's real but my brain just can't square it that people can be so horrible - and be so confident that they're in the right for treating people like this!

I am almost sure I have actually listened to a podcast about this exact family. I'm going to have to search through now as it's bugging me so much!

SunsetBeetch · 15/04/2021 09:43

As you learn more about the supernatural element and what's causing it, it does make more sense. But I agree it could have been an excellent drama about racism without that element.

JackieTheFart · 15/04/2021 17:27

I had nightmares about this all night. Horrible.

And the podcast I was remembering was actually about a house in the 80s and the weird stuff that happens there, conflated with another one about racism in new housing complexes so not the same at all!

AdditionalCharacter · 15/04/2021 20:38

Episode 5 has an awfully graphic rape scene, and also shows how the baby died, it might be very triggering for people, so either stop watching or fast forward past it. I cried and didn't sleep well.

PreparationPreparationPrep · 15/04/2021 20:58

I tried to watch this as I thought it would interest me but couldn't continue after the scene that showed how her baby Chester died - it is just horrifying !

SunsetBeetch · 15/04/2021 21:35

@JackieTheFart

I know it feels like two different things happening at the same time.

This is how I feel when I watch Schindler's List; like I know it's real but my brain just can't square it that people can be so horrible - and be so confident that they're in the right for treating people like this!

I am almost sure I have actually listened to a podcast about this exact family. I'm going to have to search through now as it's bugging me so much!

"Them’s central storyline was inspired in part by the life of Emory Hestus Holmes. A doctor, World War II veteran, and civil rights leader, Holmes moved to the predominantly white Pacoima neighborhood in the 1950s. His family, according to the online reference center Black Past, “faced a variety of forms of racial harassment that included vandalism, property destruction, and a cross burning. Agitators also hired undertakers to go to the Holmes family home with orders to pick up dead bodies in an attempt to intimidate and frighten the family.” Holmes later filed a civil rights lawsuit against his neighbors in 1960 and won, and eventually helped to found the San Fernando Valley Fair Housing Council."

www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/04/them-real-life-inspiration/amp

Explanatory video (contains major spoilers).

JackieTheFart · 15/04/2021 22:34

That's brilliant thanks!

I actually have listened to a podcast about him - it's the supernatural bits I got wrong.

Bipitybopityboop · 15/04/2021 22:55

@AdditionalCharacter

Episode 5 has an awfully graphic rape scene, and also shows how the baby died, it might be very triggering for people, so either stop watching or fast forward past it. I cried and didn't sleep well.
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UrgentExitRequired · 16/04/2021 15:14

I had to stop watching this, it felt like trauma upon trauma.

notanaturalmum · 16/04/2021 21:58

Oh no we're about to watch episode 5. Is it a violent death?
I'm not sure I will want to watch it

PreparationPreparationPrep · 17/04/2021 09:44

@notanaturalmum

Oh no we're about to watch episode 5. Is it a violent death? I'm not sure I will want to watch it
Yes it is - horrific - the way her baby was murdered, while she is raped in same room!
Bipitybopityboop · 17/04/2021 23:12

Don't watch episode 5 with a full stomach.

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KillingMeDeftly · 18/04/2021 08:21

I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" this but it was very good. All four leads were excellent (the actor playing Henry is actually British!) and I was terrified that adorable Gracie would be killed off but thank goodness she wasn't. Chester's death is probably one of the most horrific things I've seen depicted on TV in recent years.

Betty and the milkman seemed a bit of a superfluous plot but I guess it was used to show that the monsters are not always they people you think will be monsters.

There will be a second series but it won't focus on the family from this one.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 18/04/2021 20:24

Sounds harrowing, but I'm going to give it a go

HmmmmmmInteresting · 29/04/2021 19:30

I've just watched episode 5. Is made sure I'd had a couple of glasses of wine because it sounded awful. An extremely tough watch. 😥

Such a good series, though. Great direction and acting. I thought I recognised the actor that plays the female realtor. She played Erica Hahn in Grey's Anatomy.

beeny · 29/04/2021 19:42

I found this very tough but a good watch. I found out Nat King Cole had experienced horrific racism in his posh white neighbourhood.
I am quite tough but didn't sleep very well after watching episode 5.

Mistieb · 30/04/2021 14:43

It’s very well made but very graphic

It made me feel sick and I had to turn it off. The acting is brilliant and the storyline heartbreaking

MonicaGellerBing · 01/05/2021 14:17

I really really want to hurt Betty. Absolutely disgusting how black people were treat. I'm enjoying the programme but it's so uncomfortable to watch