In the new psycho-thriller from Donald Glover, an obsessive fan goes berserk. Is the era of social media to blame?
For Dre , the answer is a no-brainer. She’ll do whatever she has to. Go to whatever lengths she needs. Everything is in service of Ni’jah, the Beyoncé-level pop star she can’t live without. Dre is Ni’jah’s most-everything fan: most devoted, most knowledgeable, most deserving. She runs a popular stan account with an impressive half a million followers. But her online reality doesn't match her lived experience. Dre prefers the labyrinth of her own mind, where things are easier to control.
was all inertia. With the exception of season 3—the most ambitious season or the worst, depending on who you ask—it never left the boundaries of the city, its hidden treasures and trapdoors.is the opposite. It’s got keys in the ignition and a tank full of gas, slinking from Texas to California to Tennessee and back. It has somewhere to be. . The jewel of the series is its commitment to sharp turns—just when you think it will veer right, it puts the car in reverse and runs over a pile of bodies.
Dre’s fandom becomes killer. When we first meet her, tragedy is a thorn in her side. She’s carrying a load of hurt. So she uses that hurt to hurt others, embarking on a cross-crounty trip where she kills anyone who speaks negatively of Ni’jah. Death is “beautiful,” Dre reasons, because “it’s equal, it happens to everybody.” According to Nabers, a former writer onThe Piano TeacherThe most convincing aspect of the series is Fishback.
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