Dre is a lost woman in her 20s who is "between jobs" and lives with her sister Marissa in Houston, Texas. Both love the artist Ni'jah in an unhealthy way. Dre and Marissa are "killer bees" – members of The Swarm, as Ni'jah's fans call themselves (compare to Beyonce fans' BeyHive).

Dre is almost an inhumane, abandoned by his parents and laughed at in the schoolyard. No one likes her, except her sister. When Marissa dies, Dre loses her footing. All that's left is the unhealthy love for superstar Ni'jah, and it takes a dark turn.

"The soul shudders for the void," wrote Hjalmar Söderberg's Doktor Glas. Swarm is about that shiver, which in this case takes the form of a furious and bloody road trip through america's southern states.

Swarm is a wild story with equal parts dark humor, horror movie pastiche, and social satire. "What's your favorite artist?" asks Dre her victims before beating them to death — often because they've written meanly about Ni'jah on social media. Fishback's role interpretation is an equally wild display. She moves like a shy two-year-old but murders like an Indian goddess of death.

Remember the name. Dominique Fishback.

But Swarm is also really funny. The white stripper Hailey insists on calling herself "black", and meets Dre's skeptical faces with the explanation "My dad is black... or half". Hailey is played by Paris Jackson – Michael Jackson's daughter in real life.

Screenwriter Janine Nabers claims that Swarm has no message, but that it only "exists in the world" as a "weird punk thing." Both Nabers and series creator Donald Glover have the wayward Atlanta on their resume and it's no overinterpretation to call Swarm its little sister.

But where Atlanta had a tendency to flutter away, Swarm is held together, as the theme — the desperate demand of the human heart for belonging — characterizes all parts of the story. Other than that, it's just as headstrong, just as punky. And proves that at a time when many streamed stories are being cast in the same mold, there is still room to occasionally do something truly original.