HBOsnew drama Lovecraft Country has everything fans of the horror genre look for. There are monsters, ghosts and haunted houses. Its action-packed, mysterious and, at times, gasp-for-breath scary.
Misha Green (Underground, Sons of Anarchy) created and Jordan Peele produced the 10-episode series, which uses the genre to unpack the horrors of racism in the 1950s Jim Crow era.
The story follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he travels with his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) and childhood friend Letitia Leti Lewis (Jurnee Smollett) in search of his father, Montrose (Michael K. Williams), who has gone missing. The series was inspired by the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff, who used author H.P. Lovecrafts fictional horror and historical racism in the United States as a framework for the story.
The early reviews for Lovecraft Country have largely been stellar. TV Guide called it captivating and compelling. The A.V. Club praised it as a stunning, horrific look at a grotesque legacy. Shadow and Act summed it up as an epic genre mashup of bloody brilliant proportions.
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HuffPost writer Zeba Blay and editor Erin E. Evans chatted about the series ahead of its premiere theyve seen five episodes, but there arent any spoilers here and raved about the show, its characters and its themes.
The Bottom Line
Lovecraft Country forces audiences to look the horrors of racism directly in the eye, with fantastical creatures and monsters in human form at every turn. It is appointment television at its finest hour.
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