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'Swarm' Review: The Underside of 'Atlanta' (The New York Times)

In a new series on Amazon Prime Video, Donald Glover shifts from comedy with touches of horror to horror with grace notes of comedy.

Fishback, best known for playing a levelheaded prostitute turned porn star in the HBO series “The Deuce,” keeps our sympathies with Dre throughout the show’s ups and downs. In the early episodes, she gives Dre a timid, recessive quality, acting out of the corners of her eyes, but she also suggests a stubborn resolve that turns into confidence once Dre starts killing people. (An additional motif of the show is the stream of people, usually white, who for their own reasons reach out to Dre offering a pretense of understanding or protection.) Another goes the full bottle-episode route, presenting an installment of a mock true-crime series, which can be taken as commentary on the way media culture exploits disturbed people’s distress but also serves to stitch up loose ends and lurch the plot ahead before the season finale. Glover created “Swarm” with Janine Nabers, who was a writer and co-executive producer on “Atlanta”; other “Atlanta” alums, including Glover’s brother, the writer Stephen Glover, have moved to the new show as well. In the show’s best moments, the premise serves as an attention-grabbing, plot-propelling armature for a story that promises, for a while at least, to be more interesting than that. That “Swarm” is only intermittently successful doesn’t make it any easier to look away from the screen.

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Is 'Swarm' based on a true story? And has Beyoncé seen the bloody ... (USA TODAY)

In Amazon Prime Video's horror comedy (all seven episodes now streaming), "Judas and the Black Messiah" breakout Dominique Fishback plays Dre, a crazed fan of a ...

Glover echoed praise for Obama in an interview with [Vanity Fair](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/donald-glover-show-swarm-first-look). Asked at SXSW whether Beyoncé has seen the show, Nabers answered, "Of course," but declined to elaborate further. "Swarm" in no way tries to hide its Beyoncé influences, with fictional pop star Ni'Jah recreating almost exact images from Queen B's "Renaissance" and "Everything is Love" eras. [Dominique Fishback](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/10/18/5-new-faces-fall-tv-breakout-stars/771451001/) plays Dre, a crazed fan of a Beyoncé-like pop star named Ni'Jah (Nirine S. ["The Little Mermaid" star Halle Bailey](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2023/03/06/halle-bailey-emotiona-reaction-little-mermaid-doll-reveal/11415374002/). "I feel like she's just somebody who's going to have really good things coming soon." You may spot a notable name among the show's creative team: Malia Obama, daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama. Singer/model Paris Jackson is daughter of the late Michael Jackson and portrays a stripper who befriends Dre. She also brought out Glover, who goes by stage name Childish Gambino, to perform at her concert in Inglewood, California, last December. Brown) [who takes her obsession to murderous extremes](https://www.amazon.com/Swarm-Season-1/dp/B0B8NLVH1L). The show is inspired in part by an urban legend that circulated online following the release of Beyoncé's 2016 album "Lemonade," which hints at husband Jay-Z's alleged infidelity. Here's everything you need to know about the series, which co-stars Billie Eilish and is co-written by Malia Obama:

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Swarm movie review & film summary (2023) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert)

Her Houstonian character Dre is willing to max out credit cards for concert tickets, just as much as she's ready to murder online trolls to defend the ...

[The King of Comedy](/reviews/the-king-of-comedy-1983)"), Patrick Bateman (" [American Psycho](/reviews/american-psycho-2000)"), and Arthur Fleck (" [Joker](/reviews/joker-movie-review-2019)"). [Night Comes On](/reviews/night-comes-on-2018)" to " [Judas and the Black Messiah](/reviews/judas-and-the-black-messiah-film-review)." [Dominique Fishback ](/cast-and-crew/dominique-fishback)as Dre [Chloe Bailey ](/cast-and-crew/chloe-bailey)as Marissa [Nirine S. ), [Ibra Ake](/cast-and-crew/ibra-ake), and [Stephen Glover](/cast-and-crew/stephen-glover), establish a sound idea of this grounded but bizarre tone, complemented by a rich soundscape. Much of the show will become about Dre navigating different living spaces, passing through the country like Henry in " [Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer](/reviews/henry-portrait-of-a-serial-killer-1990)." And the show's irascible course of events becomes all the wilder when "Swarm" riffs on the

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Meet the cast of Swarm on Prime Video (Radio Times)

Full list of cast and characters in Donald Glover and Janine Nabers' Prime Video horror series, Swarm, which stars Dominique Fishback and Chloe Bailey.

For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to [The Radio Times Podcast](https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/podcasts/). She has starred in [Grown-ish](https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-64y1s7/grownish/) and 2022 psychological drama [Jane](https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-s82ach/jane/). [Casualty](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/casualty-dylan-keogh-storyline-exclusive-newsupdate/), Doctors and Miranda. The model, actress and singer is the second child of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe. She’s a fellow dancer at the club she works at, is in an abusive relationship but manages to stay (a bit too) cheery for Dre. Brought into Eva’s home, she is offered a place to stay and free tickets but soon, Eva’s mysterious life starts posing a threat to Dre’s dreams of seeing Ni’Jah. Brown is best known for her recurring role as Lynn in Her similarities to Beyoncé are “intentional”, as per the opening credits of each episode, and she boasts millions of monthly listeners, sold out tours and has The Swarm, her dedicated group of loyal fans. Her other TV credits include The Hate U Give, [The Deuce](https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-gdkzki/the-deuce/), Modern Love and Show Me A Hero. [The Little Mermaid](https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/little-mermaid-release-date-cast/) actress, Halle Bailey. Who is Khalid? Namely, she’s balancing a job, a fledgling career as a make-up artist and a boyfriend but is battling her own inner demons too.

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Swarm review – Donald Glover's Beyoncé-inspired serial killer satire ... (The Guardian)

The Atlanta creator is clearly targeting Knowles obsessives in this menacing series about the dark side of music fandom. But its point is obvious and its ...

Dre is a slightly patronising cartoon of a lonely outcast, her naivety and awkwardness constantly pushed to the max as she glowers stroppily at everyone. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events, is intentional.” In an episode falteringly styled as a true-crime documentary, following the only cop in the US who has identified Dre as the likely culprit for a string of murders, Swarm goes archly meta, with Ni’Jah defictionalised and replaced by the real Beyoncé, her name bleeped out when characters say it but easily lip-readable. She works in a strip club, bonding uneasily with her fellow dancers and initially frightening off punters with her clunking gait and insistence on dancing to sad Ni’Jah ballads. She gets a new credit card to buy front-row Ni’Jah tickets she is nowhere near being able to afford, and is devastated when Marissa – who used to be as keen a member of the Swarm, the Ni’jah fan collective, as Dre still is – does not want to accompany her to the gig because she is well into her 20s now and has moved on. [Watchmen](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/21/watchmen-review-the-perfect-superhero-story-for-our-tattered-times-hbo-alan-moore) and [Atlanta](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/29/donald-glover-atlanta-season-three-review-this-peerless-shows-impact-will-live-forever) – sets up a mood of flickering menace. If that doesn’t make it a must-watch, or at least a must-try, Glover’s parallel career as the rapper Childish Gambino increases the intrigue: Swarm is about the dark side of music fandom, and if anyone can turn that into art, you would think Glover can.

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Showrunner, star explain bizarre ending of 'Swarm' TV show (Los Angeles Times)

'Swarm' showrunner Janine Nabers and star Dominique Fishback break down Prime Video's horror/comedy about a murderous fan, premiering Friday.

I think I got what I came for and we can lay that to rest. Nabers: You look at all of the things she’s done to get to where she is, and it’s a devastating moment because you don’t know the reality of it. Fishback: I feel really proud of Dre, of the humor that I got to exhibit with this role. It begins with Chloe and it ends with Ni’Jah. Can you talk about the decision to do it that way? Dominique Fishback: Ni’Jah represents somebody who happens to have the language and ability to express it in a way that Dre felt heard. So I think that “bloodlust” was just the desire to feel something. They leave together in her waiting limo and Ni’Jah envelops Dre in a warm embrace. Like this series is [billed as being] “not a work of fiction”: You’re watching actors re-create events that happened [within] a 2 1/2 year period. And then meeting Marissa, to find somebody that equally loves this person as much as she did, it just solidified that relationship. ‘We never set out to tell the history of the Cheeto,’ Longoria said. Janine Nabers: Ni’Jah represents a sense of purpose, a sense of acceptance.

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Swarm Cast: Where You've Seen The Prime Video TV Show Actors ... (Cinema Blend)

If you were wondering where you might have seen the cast of the new Donald Glover-created show, Swarm, before, here you go.

Most recently, she had a main role in 2018 on the show Angie Tribeca. [of the Scream franchise](https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/reasons-scream-is-the-best-horror-franchise-ever), Jack Goes Home, Intruders, Lords of Chaos, Materna, and more. Big nerd and lover of Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire. Moving on, we have Rickey Thompson in Swarm, who has mainly been on television prior to his role in the Amazon Prime show. Besides guest roles on big shows such as The Affair and The Americans, among others, Fishback had a recurring role on Show Me A Hero, and portrayed Darlene on The Deuce. With movies, he’s had big roles in films like the However, she has also done plenty in movies and television as well. That last name might sound very familiar, as Bailey is actually known for a lot of her music with her sister, Halle Bailey (who is portraying She has also had plenty of success in television. She was also in the film Night Comes On. First up on this list is Dominique Fishback, who portrays Dre in Swarm, the aforementioned obsessed character that we follow, and see just how far her love for the popstar goes. Welcome to Swarm, a show co-created by the [talented Donald Glover](https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/great-donald-glover-movie-and-tv-performances-and-how-to-watch-them) and Janine Nabers, telling the story of a young woman who is obsessed with a modern-day popstar (who is a lot like our real-life Beyoncé) and takes the love she has for her to a whole new level.

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Is Donald Glover's Swarm Show Based On A True Story? (Screen Rant)

Swarm stars Dominique Fishback as Dre and Chloe Bailey as Dre's sister Marissa. Dre is obsessed with the R&B artist Nijah and her love for the singer takes a ...

[Another ironic aspect of Swarm](https://screenrant.com/spiderman-donald-glover-villain-role-miles-morales-mcu/) that relates it to real life is casting Jackson as Hailey. The warning in the show is mocking real-life Beyoncé fans for taking their love for the singer too far, showing them where they might be headed if they don't calm down. The popstar's loyal Swifties have their own saying, "Tayvoodoo," which they believe is the cause for the fall of Taylor's haters like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. The show seems to focus less on the artist herself and more on the wild behavior of her followers. The show can also relate to some other massive fanbases like those of Korean pop band BTS and There have been countless times when criticism of the singer has been met with death threats and bee emojis.

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Swarm Series-Premiere Recap: Killer Bey (Vulture)

“Who's your favorite artist?” is the question Swarm poses in its first moment. If you're Dre (Dominique Fishback) and Marissa (Chloe Bailey), ...

Dre makes a run for it in the post-murder confusion, leaving the strippers to answer for the death. In the beginning, like Khalid says, she covers herself up with only a hint of something sexy hiding away, like the body suit puffer jacket combo she wore at the mall, versus what she wears when at the club dancing to the Festival drop or when she’s performing to Ni’Jah at the strip club when she’s totally bare, wearing her emotions on the outside. Dre is now officially a murderer on the run, but she’s also on a mission, which finds her working at a strip club in Fayetteville, Tennessee, in 2017. [told](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-03-10/donald-glover-janine-nabers-swarm-beyhive) the Los Angeles Times that Dre is completely fictional, but they’ve “taken real internet rumors, real murders and combined them in the narrative of our main character, Dre. Their codependency comes to a head when Dre nearly misses covering Marissa’s shift at the T-shirt kiosk in the mall and then leaves the kiosk unattended (to talk with Khalid, of all people), resulting in it getting robbed and vandalized. 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. At the funeral, Dre is asked to leave at the family’s request, even though she also claims to be family. When Marissa has to bail Dre out, she confronts Dre about the codependent nature of their relationship and announces she’s moving in with Khalid. From her throaty voice to the visuals she releases, it’s not a secret who Ni’Jah is based on — and Dre and Marissa are two sisters who share a love for her. It’s evident that Dre is socially awkward (and a bit creepy), while Marissa is well-adjusted (at least comparatively). If you’re Dre (Dominique Fishback) and Marissa (Chloe Bailey), it’s the Ni’Jah, Swarm’s version of Beyoncé. When Lemonade dropped in 2016, a now-debunked news article [circulated](https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/swarm-tv-show-review-sxsw/?amp) about a woman named Marissa Jackson, who supposedly committed suicide after listening to the project.

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