Twitter Slams Lena Waithe Over ‘Them: Covenant’

Them: Covenant, a brand new horror anthology sequence from Little Marvin and government produced by Lena Waithe, which examines the trials confronted by a Black North Carolina household, simply made its debut on Amazon Prime. Followers on Twitter have been slamming Waithe and the brand new sequence, alleging that she’s utilizing her place to hawk Black trauma.

For context, Them: Covenant made its debut Friday night time (April 9) with all 10 episodes of the primary season touchdown on Amazon Prime. The sequence follows Livia “Fortunate” Emory (Deborah Ayorinde) and her army husband Henry (Ashley Thomas) as they depart North Carolina to affix within the Nice Migration, the place southern Black households appeared for alternatives elsewhere within the nation.

Henry, Fortunate, and their two daughters, Ruby (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Gracie (Melody Hurd) make the journey to Los Angeles, Calif., buying a house in a predominately white Fifties Compton. Like different famed horror anthology sequence American Horror Story, the sequence will change themes and locales from season to season however largely utilizing the identical forged members from earlier iterations.

What seems to be a problem for some observers on Twitter is the present’s emphasis on violent racism and the way it uniquely affected Black Individuals. That is very true within the time that present takes place, on the daybreak of the Civil Rights Motion, when the embers of the Jim Crow period nonetheless glowed. The grotesque violence depicted left many questioning whether or not Waithe has primarily wrapped Black trauma into a present package deal for white customers.

Others are additionally mentioning her dealing with of the Jason Mitchell state of affairs on the set of The Chi, the present she created and wrote for.

There have additionally been inevitable comparisons to HBO’s hit horror sequence Lovecraft Nation as a result of themes of widespread bigotry from whites and the struggling of the Black protagonists being on show.

In equity, the sequence simply opened a day in the past and individuals are both responding with knee-jerk reactions, or they’re merely not followers of Waithe’s artistic vitality and output.

We’ve acquired reactions from Twitter relating to Lena Waithe’s involvement with Them: Covenant, which may be seen in its entirety through the Amazon Prime streaming service.

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Twitter Slams Lena Waithe Over ‘Them: Covenant’ Saying She’s Peddling Black Trauma 
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