Swarm (Donald Glover & Janine Nabers, Amazon Prime) • Page 2

This is something I’m going to have to pace myself on. EP 1 was way too uncomfortable. Haha

 

I watched the whole thing in basically one sitting. I really enjoyed it, it basically felt like a whole season of one of those short film episodes of Atlanta. Good, relevant story (though I agree I'm not sure how I felt about the ending), beautiful cinematography and the acting is amazing

I noticed that Malia Obama was credited as Malia Ann for the episode she wrote

 

Finished this in two days and I'm just unsettled.

 

Just finished the first episode. This is wild lol

 

Yo why is Billie Eilish so good at acting lol

 

Yeah she was incredibly natural, I actually didn't even realize it was her at first until they showed her close up

 

Billie and Paris Jackson are both kind of insanely good in this. I didn't even realise who the latter was till I googled it lmao

 

4 episodes in and loving it. Echoing how good Billie is in her first(?) acting role

 

5 episodes down and probably going to finish this tonight. Love everything I've seen so far.

 

Watched ep 1 last night and that got dark quick. I'm in.

 

Finished ep 2. Loving the Fargo vibes I’m picking up

 

First episode was definitely unsettling.

 

don’t get caught saying that…

 

Ok then, who's your favorite artist?

 

Best killer catchphrase for sure. Also a common question that I ask people a lot, so I have some personal reflection to do

 

Dominique (incredible overall, deserves a nomination for real) and Billie are so good in that first EU scene.

EDIT:

 

Finished. Another incredible show from some of the best minds in this biz.

 

Picked up some Requiem for a Dream vibes in the last ep. Loving all of it.

 

Think I have 2 left. Really digging it.

 

The Kiersey Clemons "monologue" near the end is prob one of the top moments in the series

 

Did not care for the second to last/true crime episode at all.

 

I didn't either at first but once I realized how actually essential it is to the show I was pretty mind blown

If I interpreted it right, we've been watching a dramatic adaptation of "real events" made by in-universe Donald Glover, which is why the characters look different in that episode and why some details are changed between that episode (the "real" events) and the rest of the show (the "dramatization"), such as Marissa's father being alive

Also explains the ending; the true crime episode says that Dre got arrested after going onstage but the actual last episode is much more vague

 

episode 6 is kind of where this lost me too. I feel like it kind of broke the show and not in a fun way, more like it just killed the momentum and I was a lot less interested in that version of the story than what we'd been following up to that point. honestly the end of episode 5 was super haunting and a much stronger end than 7 imo

 

What?! I loved it all. I thought ep 6 gave it a good dose of “reality” while also telling us more of the details about the characters and why they had not been caught.

Ep 6 is the ending of the story from an objective point of view and episode 7 is the ending from Dre’s incredibly distorted perspective.