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Amazon’s new series Them by producer Lena Waithe slammed as ‘twisted trauma porn’ over racist violence

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AMAZON'S new series Them by producer Lena Waithe has been slammed as twisted "trauma porn" over its brutal depictions of racist violence.

The horror show has been accused of appealing to "hate crime fantasies", with some even saying they "though a white person wrote it".

Them tells the story of the Emory family, who move to an all-white neighborhood in Compton, Los Angeles, during the Great Migration of the 1950s to escape the Jim Crow South.

It was created by Lena Waithe along with screenwriter Little Marvin, and shows the family experiencing both supernatural horror and racism at the hands of their new neighbors.

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