The Prime Video series about a murderous stan falls short in exploring the ways female companionship can be amplified into something more sinister.
, the sound of buzzing bees is a portent of violence. As the limited series follows Dre on a killing spree in honor of her dead best friend Marissa and their favorite artist, pop star Ni’Jah, an insect drone enters the sound mix — a nod to the show’s barely veiled references to Beyoncé and her committed fans, the Beyhive — cueing Dre’s internal shift into simmering frenzy.
Ni’Jah is Dre’s primary infatuation, and in every episode, she is doing something to prove her loyalty, whether that’s spending thousands of dollars she doesn’t have to see the “queen” perform or murdering Twitter trolls.gets a lot of glee out of mocking Ni’Jah through critical tweets and detractors’ rants, but the series isn’t interested in taking direct aim at Beyoncé as an artist or entertainer.
Following a spree in which Dre kills a number of men she believes wronged Marissa or Ni’Jah, “Running Scared” sees Dre fall in with a cult of white women living in rural Tennessee. Here are women who are, like Dre and Marissa were, practically joined at the hip, in tune with each other’s impulses and cravings, and equally likely to snipe at or support one another. And also like Dre and Marissa, these women have mixed up affection and codependency as they jockey to be family to each other.
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