Holy Yikes! Prime’s ‘Them: The Scare’ Delivers the Horror

Themes of family, abandonment, forgiveness, and racism hit all the right notes

Sarah Paris
Fanfare
Published in
7 min readMay 5, 2024

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A guy in a hood sits behind a candle-lit birthday cake
The worst birthday party ever. Them: The Scare. Amazon Studios.

*Warning: Mild spoilers ahead. References to themes of racism and child abuse.

I slept with the lights on. For three nights, I slept with the lights on. After binging Amazon Prime Video’s Them: the Scare, I had…

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