Will obsession lead to destruction or success? It’s a question that one persistent detective faces in Prime Video’s “Them: The Scare.” The series’ second season focuses on LA during a pivotal point in its history — the ’90s. Creator, executive producer, and showrunner Little Marvin found the location’s turbulent decade to be the perfect pairing for horror. “With ‘Them: The Scare,’ we wanted to combine our love of horror with a look at Los Angeles’s rich history and evolution,” he said.

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With shows such as “American Horror Story,” we’ve seen the horror-themed anthology series success only get bigger and bigger in recent years. Amazon Prime Video is hoping to capitalize on that with the upcoming thriller anthology series, “Them,” brought to you by Little Marvin (“The Time Is Now”) and executive produced by Lena Waithe (“The Chi“).

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Reviewing a TV series at a film festival is always a tricky bit of business, as it finds the film critic, used to appraising an entire work, engaging in a combination of critique and prediction – I think the rest of these will be good/bad, too! (One can argue, of course, that television critics do this all the time, and that’s accurate; it would follow that they’re very different skill sets.) It gets particularly difficult when you’re talking about something like “Them,” Amazon Prime’s new horror drama anthology series, because its first season (subtitled “Covenant”) will be a self-contained story.

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With only two films under his belt, Jordan Peele has such a distinct style that he’s his own horror subgenre already. But there are definitely new projects coming out that feel very much like “Jordan Peele Film.” One of those is the upcoming Amazon series, “Them.”

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As seen in the teaser trailer for “Them,” the series follows the story of a Black family in the 1950s that moves to a very white suburb in Los Angeles.

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