Despite having a claim like Kim Kardashian among its cast of protagonists and a solid plot based on Danielle Valentie’s novel, it seems that it has not convinced the public. American Horror Story: Delicate, the twelfth season of the most famous horror franchise on television, seems to have not met the expectations of the saga’s faithful; which they had been anxiously awaiting for two years.
A fair approval on the well-known American film and television review website Rotten Tomatoes and an audience that has been somewhat disenchanted and is already wondering if the successful saga of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk has not reached its climax after 12 years on the air. . Luckily for horror lovers, there is an alternative, and its second season has just premiered on Prime Video: Them.
A saga that began with a simple but compelling premise: a black family moves from North Carolina to an exclusively white neighborhood in Los Angeles in 1953, where their idyllic home becomes ground zero for malevolent forces. This first season, Covenant (Covenant) premiered in 2021, and achieved 58% positive reviews. Its second season, The Scare, has achieved the unthinkable: 100%, far surpassing its predecessor.
Since its premiere on April 25, only good things have been heard about both its plot and its protagonists, among whom are Deborah Ayorinde (Detective Dawn Reeve) and Luke James (Edmund Gaines); with special mention to the appearance of Pam Grier (Athena).
When it premiered in 2021, the saga came after the success of Lovecraft Country and other projects that wanted to portray institutional racism as the “monster” that kills and scares in the same way that the forces of nature can.
A racism that in Convenant is much more visible and latent (1953, at the beginning of the fight for civil rights and to end racial segregation); and in this second season it moves to 1991, in Los Angeles, in one of those many times in which it is remembered that racism is still more alive than ever in society.
The series begins with a thought-provoking quote from Aristotle (“Fear is the pain that arises from the anticipation of evil”), and continues with an image of a man sitting at the table, with a pillowcase on his head. , and a birthday cake in front of him.
A detective who comes across the most grotesque and bloody crime seen in a long time, an aspiring actor who fails in an audition, but finds a woman with whom he becomes infatuated and determined to conquer. How that situation is reached and how these stories intertwine will only be seen later.
Just like in the first season, racism is the truest and scariest monster anyone can encounter. A brilliant piece of psychological horror, much better prepared at the production level than its predecessor, and a piece that lovers of the genre cannot miss.
