Watch Teaser for Donald Glover Co-Created Series ‘Swarm’

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Culture – 17 hours ago

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The teaser for the upcoming series created by Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, Swarm, has dropped via Amazon Prime Video.

Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’ upcoming co-created series, Swarm, explores the dark side of music fandom. On Friday (February 10), a first look debuted at the Prime Video show, starring Dominique Fishback, Chloe Bailey and Damson Idris. The one-minute trailer shows the protagonist Dre (Fishback), a young woman whose obsession with a pop star (à la Beyoncé) takes a turn. Shown in many touching scenes, an eerie sound plays while the question “Who is your favorite actor?” is repeated.

The SXSW logline for the show reads “Murder. Sex. Music,” with Bailey as Dre’s sister Marissa, and Idris as Dre’s girlfriend. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Glover called the Swarm as a “post-truth Piano Teacher mixed with The King of Comedy,” as Nabers, a Houston native, says of TV inspiration from Mad Men’s Don Draper and The Sopranos’ Tony Soprano. The result is Dre, an antihero “through the lens of a Black, modern-day woman,” Nabers said.

The writers room for Swarm also includes Malia Obama, eldest daughter of the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama and a Graduate of Harvard College.

“Dre and Marissa are in their 20s and Malia is in her 20s, so it’s great to have someone like her in the room,” Nabers said. “He is a very professional person. He is an incredible writer and artist. We want to give him a chance to get his feet wet on TV and see if it’s something he wants to continue doing.”

Watch the teaser below.

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