“There was a rumor about a woman named Marissa Jackson who committed suicide after watching this visual album because it basically confirmed that a very powerful man was cheating on one of the most incredibly beautiful and successful pop stars of our time,” Nabers told Shondaland. There is no evidence that the viral rumor is true, but that didn’t stop the creators from borrowing the tale. In real life, Twitter gossip once spread about a Beyoncé stan named Marissa Jackson, who reportedly died by suicide following the release of Lemonade in April 2016. A fight that grows out of Dre’s irritation with Marissa’s cheating boyfriend dominoes into the latter’s death by suicide, inadvertently triggering Dre’s bloody rampage. Dre, perpetually unemployed, can’t seem to forge a life for herself outside of Ni’Jah and her insistence on keeping Marissa, the woman at the center of her only mutual relationship, stiflingly close. Marissa’s life doesn’t only revolve around her standom - though a previous, unexplained suicide attempt left her with a scar on her wrist, she has fun with friends, sleeps with her boyfriend (Damson Idris), and keeps a job at the local mall to pay both their rent. (Yes, Beyoncé is from Houston.) Despite Marissa’s unwavering and unconditional support of her other half, the first episode reveals a deep rupture in their sisterly bond.
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(The serial killer’s adoptive parents returned her to the orphanage after a sleepover gone wrong, erasing all memory of Dre’s presence in their lives.) Offscreen, they made their way back to one another and live in their hometown of Houston, Texas, together as adults. “We presented everything: ‘This is not a work of fiction.’ That’s the first thing you see when you look at this show.”Ĭhloë Bailey, the R&B singer and Beyoncé’s protégé, plays Marissa Jackson - Dre’s foster sister and the only family that she has left. “We approached with a lot of respect,” Nabers said in an interview with Vulture. The references are cherry-picked and purposefully unsubtle, but they are many. Swarm takes place between 20, though it calls on events from both in and outside of the show’s time frame (including Beyoncé’s Renaissance-era aesthetics). Throughout Dre’s cross-country murder spree, pivotal Beyoncé-inspired events and real-life cultural moments - including surprise album drops, the birth of Ni’Jah’s twins, and some shit going down when there’s a billion dollars on an elevator - provide the backdrop for all the killing and shape the show’s plotline. Brown, who danced in Beyoncé’s Coachella performance), a blatantly obvious stand-in for Queen Bey.
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The Prime Video series from Atlanta’s Janine Nabers and Donald Glover follows a lonely, terminally online stan, Dre ( Dominique Fishback), who worships a singer, her own personal goddess, Ni’Jah (Nirine S. Swarm is buzzing with Beyoncé references.
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