Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’s horror-comedy follows fandom down a violent rabbit hole.
about a woman named Marissa Jackson, who supposedly committed suicide after listening to the project. Butisn’t just a retelling of real-life events: It’s a dark comedy fused with a thriller. Another inspiration was a tweet Glover saw about serial killers. Nabers
having sex; other than Ni’Jah, Marissa is obviously the center of Dre’s world; when Marissa’s self-harm scars are revealed, Dre showers them with kisses. It borders on homoerotic, as the best obsessive bff tropes do. Naturally, Dre doesn’t care for Khalid. He’s sleazy and too interested in Dre’s sex life, at one point going from innuendo to a straight-up proposition to help her lose her virginity.
With no family left to speak of, Dre begins turning into the serial killer promised by Nabers and Glover. Her first murder is, naturally, Khalid. She visits him at his dad’s house, and they talk about his absence from Marissa’s funeral before Dre attacks him from behind, bashing his head in with a vase before impulsively eating a pie with her bare, bloody hands. Dominique Fishback’s performance is an explosion of emotion and violence.
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