'Swarm' is a new series from Janine Nabers and Donald Glover that takes a hauntingly honest look at the dangers of celebrity worship and social media obsession.
Nevertheless, Fishback is mesmerizing and clearly committed to the role. And the show begins to find its groove a bit later when Dre ends up at a commune made up of woo-woo influencer types, including one played by Billie Eilish, who coerces Dre into unpacking her traumas and confronting, to some extent, her crimes.
The series suggests Dre has been able to get away with her crimes largely because of her invisibility as a Black woman, and the penultimate episode is a faux crime documentary show-within-the-show called"Falling Through the Cracks." It profiles a Black detective named Loretta Greene, who presents herself as uniquely capable of recognizing a Black woman serial killer based on explicit cultural clues like Hot Cheetos and shea butter.
That Dre is ultimately seen in this way by another Black woman echoes how the show attempts to be in dialogue with its audience – it's a very specific type of viewer who will recognize the irony in casting Paris Jackson in a cameo as a stripper who claims to be Black on her dad's side.
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