Swarm (official Teaser)

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

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JAELANI TURNER-WILLIAMS

Jaelani Turner-Williams is a contributing news writer for Okayplayer

The teaser for forthcoming Donald Glover and Janine Nabers-created series, Swarm, has dropped via Amazon Prime Video.

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

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

Also in the writers room for Swarm was Malia Obama, eldest daughter of 44th United States President Barack Obama and a Harvard College Graduate.


“Dre and Marissa are in their 20s and Malia is in her 20s, so it was really great having someone like her in the room,” Nabers said. “She’s a very professional person. She’s an incredible writer and artist. We really wanted to give her the opportunity to get her feet wet in TV and see if this is something she wants to continue doing.”

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Donald Glover Criticized For Comments About ‘Swarm’ Star Dominique Fishback


The director is being panned for how he prepared the actress for the role.


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MARCH 22, 2023 12:21PM


Donald Glover made a lot of internet users upset upon their discovery of his comments about Swarm star Dominique Fishback. The 39-year-old admitted to intentionally not preparing her for her role and encouraging her to act like an animal.

“I kept telling her, ‘You’re not regular people. You don’t have to find the humanity in your character. That’s the audience’s job’,” the director told Vulture in an interview published on Tuesday (March 21). In the limited series, the 32-year-old actress plays Dre, a young woman who is obsessed with a pop star (that is meant to resemble Beyoncé) and allows her fandom to make her violent.


“She really was lost a lot of the time,” Glover said about Fishback and added that he told her to “think of more like an animal and less like a person.” He stated that he does not feel Dre is “that layered” and rather, he “wanted her performance to be brutal” because “it’s a raw thing.”

“It reminds me of how I have a fear with dogs because I’m like, ‘You’re not looking at me in the eye, I don’t know what you’re capable of,’” he said.


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watching the trailer already gave me a weird feeling that made me hesitant and then when i realised DG was one of the creators it made sense....and then reading this....pheeeew that man is absolute dogshit and the more he gets praised the more unapologetic he will be....qashin


While the rapper, known as Childish Gambino, believed there was a method to his madness from a directorial standpoint, internet users did not see things the same way.

“Watching the trailer already gave me a weird feeling that made me hesitant and then when I realised DG was one of the creators it made sense,” one user wrote. “And then reading this….pheeeew that man is absolute dogsh*t and the more he gets praised the more unapologetic he will be.”

“I don’t wanna watch the rest of swarm after seeing what donald glover said in that interview like jesus christ,” another person tweeted. One user in particular raised the issue of Dre coming off as autistic, and how that can be harmful to those who deal with the disorder. “What donald glover said about dre makes me even sadder cuz she’s autistic coded asff and im tired of being seen like a creepy animal.”

Swarm premiered on Amazon Prime Video on March 17 and stars Dominique Fishback, Chloe Bailey, Nirine S. Brown, and more.

I thought the show was great in parts, but muddled in others. One thing that definitely stood out was Fishbacks performance. Excellent.

Was also pleasantly surprised by how good Eilish was.

Would not watch again though.