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Afterwards atlantaDonald Glover returns with cluster To address the distortions of American society by remembering the obsession between toxic fandom, celebrities, and serial killers in the time of social media

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This could almost be a standalone episode atlantaexpanded to become a miniseries, cluster ,cluster in the original). Because Donald Glover’s new effort, along with his partner Janine Nabors, shares with its predecessor a similar thematic universe, political approach, and the same ability to know how to sidestep urgent and decidedly current issues.

What changes, if anything, in this new series distributed by Prime Video remains to be seen. Here’s the Isolated and Marginal Story of a Serial Killer Novel, an Unprecedented Look at the Toxicity of a “Genre” Masquerade fan In the era of social networks.

So this is the other side of show business, of relationships with celebrities and with icons, which whether we believe it to be true or not, this time has to be culled under the watchful and ruthless eye of Glover. A dark side that reflects the bad conscience of a system condemned to constantly and inevitably generate demons. Price follows Dre (Dominic Fishback), an African-American and sociopathic girl with only two certainties: love for her sister Marissa and adoration for pop star Nijah. When the first one takes his own life, Dre, determined not to succumb to guilt, decides to fully indulge his compulsive obsession, embarking on a road trip of death and revenge. Yes, because it is a perverse and sick sense of justice that shakes the murderous hand of the protagonist cluster, members of a fanatical group of fans (“the herd”, in fact) are willing to pay anyone for it to publicly tarnish their beloved. Taking his mission literally, Dre begins bashing people who have disrespected “queen bee” Nijah on social media (every reference to Beyoncé is completely intentional), in the form of a spiel, Which once again delve into the soft underbelly. American Society. Furthermore, it is impossible not to see in the parable of this one Mad budding reflections of a system that casts off its most fragile and vulnerable elements, leaving behind a black community that is allowed only scraps (that junk food of which Dre is greedy) for a good that is virtually impossible to achieve. It is in this new form of ghetto in which African Americans are marginalized or relegated to predetermined roles (Niamh herself, imprisoned in her role as a black icon for the use and consumption of the white public is) that, the authors tell us, the very meaning of the American dream crumbles. A clumsy theater in which there are no losers or winners and the idea of ​​success fueled by social media becomes one with insanity.

Unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy, blood and bits, this is how Dre becomes irrevocably lost, turning his madness into an (involuntary) act of rebellion against the system, casting himself a predetermined social role. The only way to break free from (L’ be the last of the last) and become someone special and unique just like the artist of your dreams.

in a mix of styles that blend together Blaxploitation, mockumentarieshorror, satire and thriller, cluster has a cynical and sophisticated answer to damer The best, with the sixth episode by Ryan Murphy, which dissects and mocks the current obsession true Crime And our equally toxic desire for true stories. An indictment in the form of a black and sordid comedy against a world where happy endings only exist in (collective) hallucinations and the truth is just another ploy to sell a dream that smells of death.

• Jhund (Jhund, USA 2023)
• Producers Donald Glover, Janine Nabors
• Cast Dominic Fishbach, Chloe Bailey, Nirin S. Brown, Damson Idris, Paris Jacon, Billie Eilish
• Thriller/Horror/Black Comedy, Duration 27/39 min (episode), Season 1

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by Mattia Caruso

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