Horrifying and wickedly smart, HBO's parable "Lovecraft Country" is a successor to "Get Out" in its melding of race and horror.

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 trimmed Korean war veteran, usually dressed in a t-shirt and slacks, he’s traveling from Florida back home to Chicago. His father Montrose (Michael Kenneth Williams), who he shares a […]

The grisly HBO series sometimes is too in love with special effects, blunting the more powerful aspects of the story.

The HBO series turns racist genre tropes inside-out, and then starts to play by its own rules.

The new horror series takes a bevy of fun pop culture tropes on a ride through Jim Crow America.

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 describes a lot of attempts, on big screens and small ones, to re-animate Lovecraftian tales of psychological and body horror, blended with real-life American nightmares. But sometimes an adaptation takes the leap […]

HBO's new dark fantasy series serves up satisfyingly pulpy thrills even as it examines the enduring legacy of slavery through a prism of science-fiction and horror.

Pulp noir meets Lovecraftian horror in a series perfectly suited for the madness of the year 2020.

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

PAY TV: Lovecraft Country examines racism in the US through the prism of a classic horror movie