Them
Warning : this article contains spoilers for THEM season 1 and 2 .
Summary
THEMseason 2 concluded with a couple of surprise twists , revealing a connectedness to the Emory family unit fromCovenant . THEMfollows in the footsteps of other anthologies by bringing in characters from past seasons to make an visual aspect . THEM : The Scarefocuses on an entirely separate plot line in time of year 2 , but slyly builds up to a Revelation of Saint John the Divine that puts the series as a whole into a fresh perspective .
The initial connectedness between time of year was Deborah Ayorinde , who plays the maincharacter in bothTHEMinstallments . She first starred as Livia " Lucky " Emory inTHEM : Covenant , which mostly drive place in 1953 Los Angeles . InTHEM : The Scare , Ayorinde returns , this clock time as Detective Dawn Reeve as she investigates a serial cause of death who ends up being her crony , Edmund . The context is still Los Angeles , only this time between 1989 and 1991 . The emplacement and category ties designate an on-going throughline that could carry on in a potentialTHEM time of year 3 .
THEM : The Scare , season 2 of the revulsion anthology series , enhances the story of a violent serial killer with its multi - genre soundtrack .
THEM Season 2 Reveals That Dawn & Edmund Are Ruby Lee Emory’s Children
Shahadi Wright Joseph reprises her role from season 1
In the net instalment ofTHEM : The Scare , Dawn visits the foster plate where she was abused as a child . With the service of her forget brother ’s now - darkened spirit , she unlocks a pent-up memory with a key reveal : Dawn and Edmund ’s birth mother is Ruby Lee Emory(Shahadi Wright Joseph ) fromTHEM : The Covenant . InTHEMseason 1 , Ruby is 14 . In the flashback , she come out as a young woman holding her twin babies in her arms .
Dawn is also capable to see the painful decision Ruby had to make when leave her kid in foster care , unaware that Bernice would end up being a brutal surrogate mother . Ruby says,“I’m not good . What I went through as a kid … it never left me . “This touches on the trauma Ruby and her family went through and creates another connection evanesce down from the Emory family to Dawn and Edmund .
Why THEM: Covenant’s Tap Dance Man Haunts Dawn In Season 2’s Ending
Jeremiah Birkett makes a surprise cameo inTHEMseason 2
In the terminal moments ofTHEM : The Scare , Dawn discovers a photo of the Emory family from time of year 1 stuck to the back of a picture of her and Edmund as children . muddiness mount as she look over the picture and focalize on the charwoman in the image , Lucky , who attend exactly like her . The secondDawn notices that her grandma could be her twin , Da Tap Dance Man ( Jeremiah Birkett ) fromTHEM : Covenantcomes up the stairs and appears in Dawn ’s bedroom doorway . His return come only after this revelation and Dawn ’s tripper down memory lane .
Da Tap Dance Man is one of a fewghosts inTHEMseason 1who haunt mordant families in fifties Compton . He seems to be one of the life attached to the land before it was transform into HOA prop . Da Tap Dance Man latches onto Henry , Lucky ’s husband and Dawn ’s gramps , further him to lean into his crimson impulses . The trace ’s account is never made unmortgaged beyond the import that he was a slave and the story he tells Henry about how some of his fingers were cut off for daring to eat on a peach in the hot sun .
Da Tap Dance Man has layers of clean and pitch-dark rouge or composition on his aspect , acting as an allusion to lily-white performer who used to don blackface in jongleur shows as a anti-Semite means of mocking slave and Black people in general . In theTHEMseason 1 terminate , Henry seemingly defeats the spectre and reclaims himself before wipe off the bed to reveal a bloodless man underneath . Henry is n’t blow out of the water , and neither should the audience be .
Custom image by Yailin Chacon
Da Tap Dance Man is the ghost of a blank adult male profess to be a Black oneto cause hurt to Black family by attempting to mold their anger to force them into dangerous situations . Dawn can see him now that she has uncover her repressed retentiveness and family line story . The " curse " of this ghost may have happen on to her after Dawn opened herself to the spirit world following genesis of trauma within the Emory family . Furthermore , the concluding view ’s focus on Dawn and Lucky being " Twin " in appearance could be another reason the ghost was awakened .
What THEM Season 2’s Emory Family Twist Means For Season 3
A new season would likely be set in the present
Now that the Emory family and their bloodline have been establish as a throughline for the serial , along with the time jumps in distinct decade , the probable place setting and time period ofTHEMseason 3 is light — if the show is renewed . THEM : The Scarebrought Dawn and Edmund ’s story ( and the return of Da Tap Dance Man ) into the ' ninety . A new iteration in the present daywould make the most sense . The place setting of current Los Angeles could follow an old Kel Reeve , Dawn ’s boy , or his children .
Beyond the reveal of the Emory family ’s story continue throughout generation , thebiggest dubiousness inTHEMrelates to Dawn and Lucky . At first , it seemed like the show and the audience take Ayorinde represent both character reference because the serial is an anthology . American Horror Story , for example , has utilized many of the same actors to star as raw characters in additional season . The challenging twist inTHEM : The Scare , however , is how the final moment of the finale are not really focused on the family but on Dawn react to seeing herself in Lucky .
disregarding of which persona a potential new time of year follow afterTHEM : The Scare , there will have to be an explanation for how Dawn dealt with this ghost , her connection to Lucky beyond being her granddaughter , and if the Emory family line curse remain .
The new story centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve, who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken. Navigating a tumultuous time in Los Angeles, with a city on the razor’s edge of chaos, Dawn is determined to stop the killer. But as she draws closer to the truth, something ominous and malevolent grips her and her family…
Dawn could have easily found a solo picture of her female parent , but the point was to have her see her granny , Lucky , alongside the whole family . IfTHEMreturns for a time of year 3,the show could address the similarities between the two women as a plotline , along with the reappearance of Da Tap Dance Man . Regardless of which character a possible new time of year come after afterTHEM : The Scare , there will have to be an explanation for how Dawn dealt with this specter , her connection to Lucky beyond being her granddaughter , and if the Emory kinsperson curse continues .
Both seasons ofTHEMare streaming now on Prime Video .
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The new story centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve , who is assigned to a new case : the ghastly slaying of a foster menage mother that has leave alone even the most harden detectives shake . Navigating a riotous time in Los Angeles , with a metropolis on the razor ’s edge of chaos , Dawn is determined to stop the killer . But as she draws closer to the truth , something ominous and malign clutches her and her phratry …
