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- Though it's sure to be compared to Watchmen, given both its prominent HBO Sunday night berth and its determination to view race in America through the prism of science fiction, Lovecraft Country is lighter in tone, and far pulpier in sensibility, than Lindelof's comparatively grand, sweeping epic.
Lovecraft Country: Created by Misha Green. With Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Wunmi Mosaku. A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.
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- 2020-08-16
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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Aug 7, 2020 · In our Lovecraft Country review, we take a look at HBO's fantastic new series that blends Lovecraftian horrors with the horrors of Jim Crow America.
- Chris Evangelista
- Horror and History Collide
- A Different Kind of Scary
- Starting Big
- A Mystery Machine
Ever since the Lovecraft Countryseries was first announced by HBO in 2017, there has been plenty of curiosity about the form the show will take. The series is based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, but HBO has kept many details about the project’s blend of supernatural horror and real-world American history a closely guarded secret. That myst...
If it hasn’t been made clear by this point, Lovecraft Countryisn’t your typical horror story — and that applies to the characters, too. In the series’ primary roles, Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors portray Letitia “Leti” Lewis and Atticus Freeman, respectively, childhood friends from Chicago’s historically Black South Side. After serving in Wor...
Speaking of spectacular elements, HBO doesn’t waste any time in giving the Lovecraft Countryaudience a taste of how wild it’s willing to get with the series. Where the aforementioned Watchmen opened with a dramatic, terrifying re-creation of the Tulsa Race Massacre — regarded as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history — th...
The first five episodes of Lovecraft Countrycover a lot of ground both historically and in unfolding the layered story the series wants to tell. While some episodes feel like discrete elements, much of the season’s first half is engaged in advancing a singular, overarching narrative thread that has Atticus, Leti, and the show’s supporting cast deal...
- Rick Marshall
Aug 16, 2020 · With its atmospheric mix of paranormal and social menaces, “Lovecraft Country” uses horror to comment on American race relations. It rejuvenates the genre by not just making its heroes Black ...
- Tambay Obenson
Aug 7, 2020 · Lovecraft Country: Season 1 (2020)88%. Critics Consensus: Anchored by Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Jonathan Majors' heroic performances, Misha Green's Lovecraft Country is a thrilling take on...
Aug 13, 2020 · “Lovecraft Country,” despite its fully hourlong episodes, would be a good candidate for binge viewing — its verve and variety would help carry you through the slow spots, and you could hold ...
Aug 16, 2020 · Lovecraft Country is only the latest in a series of movies, television series and novels to engage with America's greatest moral, economic, social and psychological wound — the legacy of...
