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Full of cannibals, vampires and murderers who devour and indulge to the purpose of excess, the horror genre allows women to be free from restriction and appetite suppression “Why be miserable when you may just have lemon cake?” So says Rashida’s mom, Jackie (Cree Summer), within the last episode of Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s hit horror series Swarm. Within the episode, serial killer Dre (Dominique Fishback) is on to her latest and last alias, now identifying as a masculine-presenting woman named Tony. She meets her girlfriend Rashida’s (Kiersey Clemons) parents for the primary time, and so they all have dinner together. While the audience is witnessing a radically different side to Dre, the...