![]() Or at least it’s meant to be: both centre on the home invasions of a Black family, and the title steal is, frankly, cheeky. If, despite the radically different setting and historical material, this series sounds suspiciously like a sloppy pastiche of Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed 2019 film Us, that’s because it is. As such, the series both historicises and mythologises Compton (now better known as an African American ethnic enclave and the birthplace of West Coast hip-hop) as a once white-majority neighbourhood whose demography transformed after the “white flight” exodus of middle-class residents. The terror they find in Compton is as much about the manifest displays of racism, as the psycho-terror of fear and paranoia evinced through hallucinations and various cliches of paranormal activity. The Emory family, who move to Compton in California, represent those African Americans who migrated to white-dominated northern and western states from the south, in search of new economic opportunities, and to escape the white-supremacist and Ku Klux Klan violence that haunted southern states. ![]() The first season, Covenant, is set in 1953 and explores the hostility faced by African Americans during the tumultuous Second Great Migration.
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