'Them': The Trauma, The Trauma
Amazon's new anthology series, executive produced by Lena Waithe, unrelentingly explores "terror in America."
Lately, everyone's talking about trauma. Trauma in news form, trauma in essay form, trauma in Twitter thread form. In pop culture, creators are mining the depths of trauma both personal and historical in a variety of ways – documenting the testimonials of real-life victims in shocking detail; weaving harrowing experiences into fictional characters' narratives. In those fictional characterizations sometimes, the trauma is merely a plot point; at other times, it is the point, or rather, the wrestling with and processing of it is.
The new Amazon series , created by Little Marvin (Lena Waithe is one of the executive producers), has been billed as an anthology that "explores terror in
