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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.
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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. 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. So far, social media silence from Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Solange.Photo-Illustration: Vulture. The Standard Hotel, from which the footage was taken, has released a statement saying it is "shocked and disappointed" by this breach of security. Us Weekly claims to have "new" and "exclusive" details about the incident, but the outlet has zero information on what the fight was about or any potential issues the family's been having.ĬNN reached out to reps for the three stars but got nothing.īeyoncé and Jay-Z did make headlines again Monday night for attending a Brooklyn Nets playoff game amidst the drama, with outlets like The Huffington Postsummarizing that the pair was putting on a "united front." So far, the situation seems to be on lockdown ? just like it was when a man who appeared to be a bodyguard pushed the emergency stop button during the argument.
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Media are speculating too, and that's pretty much all they can do. It was picked up by media everywhere ? and got the speculative #WhatJayZSaidToSolange trending on Twitter into Tuesday morning. Twenty-seven-year-old Solange appears to violently attack 44-year-old Jay-Z after the Met Gala last week. The video, which has no sound, was first posted by TMZ. The question now: Will the fairly private couple address the elephant in the elevator? On Monday, footage of Beyoncé's sister, Solange Knowles, seemingly attacking Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z, went viral.