S1: Season 1
10 episodes / Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Jonathan MajorsAtticus Freeman
Jurnee SmollettLetitia ‘Leti’ Lewis
Wunmi MosakuRuby Baptiste
Abbey LeeChristina Braithwhite
Michael Kenneth WilliamsMontrose Freeman
Aunjanue EllisHippolyta Freeman
Jamie ChungJi-Ah
Jordan Patrick SmithWilliam
Jada HarrisDiana Freeman
Jamie NeumannDell / Hillary
Erica TazelDora
DeRon J. PowellTree
10 episodes / Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Lately, I’ve been struggling with how to evaluate ambitious films and television shows that see themselves advancing radical racial politics, namely Lovecr...
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The creativity on display in the series — the writing, the acting, the stunning visual realizations — is phenomenal.
The screen-popping show blends racial drama with gory horror, taking on a style that’s ever-changing but always watchable.
According to 20th Century fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft, the alien deity known as Xirdneth is “an illusion-making entity with no true form.” This also de...
Misha Green’s new series is brimming with timely commentary.
Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett and Courtney B. Vance star in this Jordan Peele-produced series, where the scares come as much from the humans as the monsters.
The new HBO/Sky series channels the unsettling novels of horror author HP Lovecraft to explore race in 1950s America
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An adaptation of Mark Ruff’s novel, set in the Jim Crow era, this 10-part series deals with both racist monsters and literal monsters
A muddled, inconsistent narrative only offers the broadest form of social commentary — but "Lovecraft Country" is just bad at having fun.
Pulp noir meets Lovecraftian horror in a series perfectly suited for the madness of the year 2020.
The Black heroes of HBO's horror fantasy, from Misha Green and Jordan Peele, fight genre fiction's unbearable whiteness — including that of its namesake.
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The grisly HBO series sometimes is too in love with special effects, blunting the more powerful aspects of the story.
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Atticus (Jonathan Majors) loves pulp fiction. He loves that “the heroes get to go on adventures on other worlds… defeat the monsters, save the day.” A ...
Lovecraft Country(Sky Atlantic)Biohackers(Netflix)Derren Brown: 20 Years of Mind Control(Channel 4)In the middle of Nashville, feasibly while hungover, I onc...
Jordan Peele executive-produced this wild ride through the painful history of Blackness in America
The 1950s-set show is based on Matt Ruff's acclaimed novel of the same name
Horrifying and wickedly smart, HBO's parable "Lovecraft Country" is a successor to "Get Out" in its melding of race and horror.
American history is up for examination in HBO's new drama
The new horror series takes a bevy of fun pop culture tropes on a ride through Jim Crow America.
A present-tense correction of science fiction’s racist past, the new HBO series is what academics would call a “rich text.”