Swarm’s a little too caught up in the Beyhive for its own good.
is tapping into a number of interesting ideas and attempting to weave them into a critical text meant to be read closely. But the show’s so committed to lampooning one real-world idol and her legion of stans thatends up feeling fixated on punching down rather than actually saying something insightful about how people can end up finding community in the most toxic digital spaces.
To some extent, the first time Dre murders someone for a perceived slight against Ni’Jah is meant to take you by surprise because of how objectively unhinged killing a person over a pop star is. But as’s story unfolds across the season’s seven episodes, the show tries to make clear that the darkness within Dre is far more complicated than her being a burgeoning serial killer who just so happens to like one of the most popular singers in the world.
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