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Bret at opus one productions12/24/2023 ![]() But at the end of the day we can watch something horrifying in a room, and we’ll find something to laugh about. “It can be terrifying and it can be all of those things. It’s like math at this point,” Nabers says. Obviously some of that comes formalistically - the moody look and tone of Swarm, in particular - especially when it comes to nailing the tone of the Amazon show as it swings wildly from tragedy to comedy. Unsurprisingly, the last show that Glover and Nabers worked on together is a big influence on the show (Nabers says that “most of the writers” came from Atlanta as well). And I think that was really, really important to us with a story.”Īmerican Psycho is available to stream for free with ads on Pluto TV. “It feels a little bit like you’re just running with this woman and you just don’t know what’s gonna happen next. She cites American Psycho as one of her favorite movies, but notes that his books are also formative - particularly Less Than Zero. The works of Bret Easton Ellisīret Easton Ellis, with all his wild pulp and circumstance, is another influence on Nabers for Swarm. All of that was really real food for thought for us.”ĭon’t Fuck With Cats is available to stream on Netflix. “That to me is just the idea of how social media kind of played a huge point in the storytelling, and the puzzle of that documentary, and how the pieces kind of fell together. “That documentary, like, just completely blew our minds,” Nabers says. Under the Skin is available to stream on HBO Max, or for free with a library card on Kanopy. “And there’s something about the alienness of Dre and us kind of doing the same thing with her in a lot of ways and her reaction to things that you think would be one way being drastically different.” “I think in terms of Under the Skin - this woman is actually an alien in Under the Skin, and just, like, looking at how we really want to project humanity onto her even though she isn’t human, and that need to always try to do that with every scene that she’s in. We kind of see her in so many different shades of a woman in the show,” Nabers says. “In a way, she’s like, putting on different skins to see what fits. But Nabers says the connection between them is deeper than that. If you’ve only made it to episode 2, it’s easy to see how Swarm lets Dre use her sexuality in a way not unlike Scarlett Johansson’s Laura (though she’s less successful as a lure than they are, at least when she’s working in a strip club). Under the Skin Image: A24Īnother easy comparison for the sometimes grounded and eerie tone of Swarm, 2013 sci-fi Under the Skin from Jonathan Glazer could fit right into much of the world of the show. Caché is available for digital rental or purchase on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and YouTube. ![]() The Piano Teacher is streaming on HBO Max and the Criterion Channel. And I think just that feeling of I’m leaning into something, but I just don’t know what I’m gonna get, and just having that feeling kind of be reshaped in every single episode that we watch with this character, was definitely something that was very important to us when telling this story.” “You’re watching a woman who you’re just completely mesmerized by, but also terrified by. But for Swarm, Nabers said she pulled more from The Piano Teacher, “one of the wildest journeys I’ve ever gone on in terms of just as a viewer.” Nabers says she and Glover are both really big fans of Michael Haneke, citing Caché as one of her favorite films (and, indeed, it’s pretty clear to see the similarities between that movie’s poster and Swarm’s). So we were just watching a lot,” Nabers tells Polygon, saying she and Glover watched everything from documentaries to features to “so, so, so, so” much more, “just to think outside the box of the way we see TV right now.”Ĭonsidering the level of detail Nabers and her crew put into even a visual album we’d only see for a few seconds on screen, it’s worth unpacking the wealth or influences (cited or not) that you can see on screen in Swarm. We all have subscriptions to the Criterion Collection. ![]() We had a lot of film fans in our writers room. And of course there’s the Beyoncé of it all, with Swarm following Dre (played by Dominique Fishback), whose life and obsession with a Beyoncé-like pop star (Ni’Jah, in the world of the show) takes a dark turn.īut the list doesn’t stop there. Both of them wrote for Atlanta, which Glover co-created. There are certain influences on Swarm, the new Prime Video show from Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, that are quite obvious. ![]()
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