'Swarm' and the Killer Beyhive

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

Vulture & New York Magazine

Entertainment News, Tv & Film, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Swarm is about a Beyoncé superfan who defends her idol’s honor to the death... as in, by literally committing murder. (The new Amazon Prime Video show isn’t actually about Beyoncé, it’s about Ni’Jah — a fictional pop star who also just happens to have a fervent online fandom called “the Swarm," is married to an incredibly famous rapper, was involved in an elevator incident, once got bit in public, etc. etc.) Janine Nabers created the show with Atlanta’s Donald Glover. Sam and Janine talk about why she was so excited to create a show about a Black female serial killer… and how in the world Amazon’s legal team approved the multitude of similarities to Beyoncé and her fandom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:06.0	justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:09.7	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives when the Taliban
0:14.4	took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:17.9	The UK government pled to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year, only
0:24.0	22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:28.5	So what happened?
0:29.5	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:33.5	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:41.2	Support for this show comes from Kraken.
0:43.9	Crypto is like the financial system, but different.
0:47.8	It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit school, or your outrageous
0:52.8	food delivery habits.
0:54.6	Crypto is finance for everyone, everywhere, all the time.
0:59.4	Kraken, see what crypto can be.
1:02.6	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
1:05.5	This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something
1:08.8	goes wrong.
1:24.6	I know, right?
1:25.9	Another story about a serial killer who wants that.
1:29.6	Well, what if I told you in this show, the serial killer is black.
1:35.6	And this black serial killer is a woman.
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