A new horror series currently has a 100 per cent rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
The second season in the Them anthology series, titled The Scare, premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 25, and has received a generally positive reception.
The series stars Luke Cage and True Detective’s Deborah Ayorinde, as well as Jackie Brown’s Pam Grier, and singer/songwriter Luke James.
Ayorinde, who also starred in the first season as a different character, plays an LAPD Detective investigating a gruesome murder, set in 1991. As Dawn Reeve gets closer to uncovering the truth, something evil begins to take over her life and her family.
The Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes “represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show”, and for Them: The Scare, it’s currently at 100 per cent.
One review of the eight-episode series read: “Bolstered by its incredibly gifted actors, Them: The Scare is a terrifying supernatural slasher that moves the anthology to the right track.”
Another review described the series as “deeply unsettling” while another noted the deeper themes in the anthology: “Like the first season of Them, the horror in Them: The Scare is as much about institutional racism than it is about some sort of apparition or monster.”
The first instalment in the anthology was titled Covenant, and was released in April 2021. It starred British rapper Ashley Thomas, as well as Us star Shahadi Wright Joseph.
Them: Covenant is set in 1953 and follows a black family who move to an all-white Los Angeles neighbourhood from North Carolina, during the Second Great Migration.
The first season currently has a 58 per cent rating on the Tomatometer, and was met with mixed reviews upon its release.
All episodes of Them: Covenant and Them: The Scare are available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.
