Swarmhas set the internet buzzing and the Hive has had some thoughts.
feels like paint by numbers.
“It’s a very risky show for Amazon.
‘Swarm’ co-creator Janine Nabers.Tyren Redd
The ostensible reason for her homicidal mania is her love ofa Beyonce-like pop goddess, Ni’Jah.
What greater idols exist in modern culture than the international pop star?
Pop stars can live in your head, in your ears, in your heart.
Dominique Fishback in ‘Swarm’.Warrick Page/Prime Video
So killing people who diminish Ni’Jah is both an act of retribution and absolution.
“I think [Dre] is an anti-hero from her own perspective.
I think she stands for something very important to her.
Chloe Bailey, Dominique Fishback, and Janine Nabers of ‘Swarm’.Robby Klein/Contour/Getty
And that is really, I think, what an anti-hero is,” Nabers says.
I think that that’s awesome.”
I think it’s really about that.
“I love documentaries.
Donald loves documentaries,” Nabers says.
I think that was really the overall goal for that episode.
It’s a little cheeky, but that’s the intention."
“You want discourse because you don’t want silence,” Nabers says.
“You want a show that makes noise, and it’s okay if it’s good or bad.
Those are notes that people give.”
She adds, “And that’s the reality that I think exists with Black people on TV.
And I kind of want to be like, f— that.
Let’s just show what we want to show.
Let’s mix it up a bit.”
