Deborah Ayorinde (Luke Cage, The Village, True Detective) and Ashley Thomas (Salvation, Top Boy, 24: Legacy, Ice) have been cast to star in Them: Covenant per Deadline. Them has a 2-season order at Amazon.
Them: Covenant is the first season in a horror anthology series from Lena Waithe. The drama hails from Lena Waithe (The Chi, Dear White People), writer and executive producer Little Marvin, executive producers Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, and Michael Connelly. The project will be produced by studios Vertigo Prime and Sony Pictures TV.
The first season titled "Them: Covenant" is set in 1953 and centers around Alfred and Lucky Emory (Ayorinde and Thomas), who decide to move their family from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood. The family's home on a tree lined, seemingly idyllic street becomes ground zero where malevolent forces both real and supernatural threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.
