Swarm, Amazon's new comically edged psychological thriller series from Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, is based on Beyoncé, even if you aren't the biggest Beyoncé fan. Everything about the show's story about a disturbed fan who kills for a reason she doesn't know about a celebrity is meant to make you consider what it really means to get lost in online fandom and parasocial relationships.
On occasion, you can perceive how Multitude is taking advantage of various intriguing thoughts and endeavoring to mesh them into a basic text intended to intently be perused. Swarm, on the other hand, becomes fixated on punching down rather than actually saying something insightful about how people can end up finding community in the most toxic digital spaces because the show is so committed to mocking one real-world idol and her legion of stans.
Swarm is about a young woman named Andrea "Dre" Greene, played by Dominique Fishback, who, like many other people all over the world, views multiplatinum recording artist Ni'Jah, played by Nirine S. Brown, as the second coming or the closest thing to it. Ni'Jah is not only a singer and dancer whose performances sell out stadiums all over the world for Dre and her sister Marissa (Chloe Bailey), she is also a source of the art that helped shape their identities as young girls when they first discovered her music. Swarm opens at a time in the sisters' lives when it is evident that their closeness has not exactly been healthy for either of them. However, after years of being able to bond over their shared love of Ni'Jah's music and a Twitter fan page dedicated to their favorite singer, Swarm opens.
Marissa, the more well-adjusted sister, is absolutely certain that some distance between her and Dre would be beneficial. Dre, on the other hand, begins to spiral in a manner that makes good on the numerous heavy-handed hints Swarm drops to the fact that Marissa is a dangerous person who is in urgent need of professional counseling.
Due to how objectively unhinged killing a person over a pop star is, the first time Dre murders someone for a perceived slight against Ni'Jah is meant to surprise you to some extent. But as Swarm's story progresses through the season's seven episodes, the show tries to show that Dre's dark side is much more complicated than just being a young serial killer who likes one of the world's most popular singers. Unfortunately, they are not always successful in the endeavor.
Swarm, like Netflix's You, tells the story of a killer who comes to understand their particular type of psychosis and tries to convince themselves that the horrible things they do are not exactly their faults. However, the show is also a criticism of contemporary fandom, which seems interesting on the surface. However, the series tends to read more like a rant directed at the Beyhive and the Black women who count themselves among its members than a nuanced deconstruction of stan culture as a whole because Ni'Jah in Swarm is so clearly an analogue of Beyoncé.
Fishback portrays Dre in a flawless way, painting a picture of her sluggish growth and eccentricities that speak to her years of codependence on her sister and Ni'Jah. Ni'Jah appears in music videos and other TV appearances throughout the series, giving you a sense of how omnipresent she is. However, one of the most surprising aspects of Swarm is how little of Ni'Jah's artwork is actually featured. That can once in a while make it hard to comprehend what it is that Dre, or any other person, cherishes about her to such an extent.
Still, Swarm has a lot going for it, and the fact that it incorporates real-life Beyoncé apocrypha into its fictional world makes it frequently hilarious. That all being said, Multitude most certainly has its benefits, and it's generally expected authentically entertaining as it meshes true Beyoncé unauthenticated written work into its imaginary reality. However, despite the solid jokes and promising concept, Swarm doesn't always feel like it's working hard enough to be great, which is a shame because it's so close.
Karen Rodriguez, Damson Idris, Paris Jackson, Billie Eilish, and Kiersey Clemons are also in Swarm. Amazon Prime members can now watch the show online.
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