A muddled, inconsistent narrative only offers the broadest form of social commentary — but "Lovecraft Country" is just bad at having fun.

'Underground' co-creator Misha Green brings Matt Ruff's novel 'Lovecraft Country' to HBO as a celebration of pulp fiction and an exploration of race in America, with a tremendous lead turn from Jurnee Smollett.

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And like the films of executive producer Jordan Peele, it's a wild ride through the often-terrifying experience of being Black in America.

A review of the new HBO series “Lovecraft Country,” created by Misha Green and Jordan Peele, starring Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, and Michael Kenneth Williams. Premiering Sunday, August 16, on HBO.

A review of the new HBO series, premiering Sunday, August 16. It's wicked good.

HBO’s pulp-inflected new drama 'Lovecraft Country' is a no-punches-pulled treatise on race in America. Alan Sepinwall's 4.5-star review

Thrilling action-adventure is the first priority of this new HP Lovecraft-inspired drama, but its prescient message about racism is never far from the surface

With “Sundown,” HBO’s fantasy series brought to life a piece of my family history.

Lauren Michele Jackson reviews the HBO supernatural series “Lovecraft Country,” starring Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors, Courtney B. Vance.

The creativity on display in the series — the writing, the acting, the stunning visual realizations — is phenomenal.

As a director, he’s mastered his brand of horror. But not everything he backs has the same results.

Exuberant, messy and impossible to define, this 1950s fantasy-horror mash-up has defied expectation at every turn

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