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Lovecraft Country - Season 1
A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.
4 June 1966, The Bronx, New York, USA
31 July 1986, Zaria, Nigeria
1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 26, 2003 in Dayton, Ohio, USA
August 14, 2020
Lovecraft Country is lurid, vivid, uneven and a fascinating mix of genres and subplots worthy of The Twilight Zone.
August 14, 2020
This could not have come at a better time...
August 14, 2020
Fear not, or tremble, because we now have the thrillingly brilliant Lovecraft Country...consider [that] a forewarning and a promise of shocking and twisted entertainment with a warm wet beating heart.
August 16, 2020
HBO's latest genre series, showcasing that often times it's not the literal monsters to be most afraid of. It expresses that premise well, but it might be trying to do too much at once.
August 14, 2020
Lovecraft Country is so full of layers, homages, and Easter eggs, along with handling issues that apply to the current climate so well. It's a welcome addition to the TV landscape.
August 12, 2020
A show that uses genre storytelling to peel back layers of American history to reveal the systemic problems underneath it, but it's also got a marvelously entertaining side, one that's gory and sexy in unexpected ways.
August 15, 2020
Including elements of the genres that are often unkind to their Black characters, 'Lovecraft Country' does a stellar job at ridding us of the awful tropes and exploring racism, history, and monsters real and sci-fi alike.
August 14, 2020
To call "Lovecraft Country" "wildly original" seems almost a quaint understatement. But it is wild. And original. Little doubt about that.
August 10, 2020
"Lovecraft Country" certainly isn't without its flaws. But it's now timelier than its creators mayhave imagined. And it'll make you think, which may be the best thing about it.
August 07, 2020
What helps to keep all the chaos controlled-aside from standout performances from Majors and Smollett-Bell-is a vibrant soundtrack that is nothing less than scintillating.
August 13, 2020
The creativity on display is phenomenal, with writing that's layered with meanings and allusions, acting that brings the kind of emotional grounding you don't always find in genre stories, and visual realizations that are stunning.
August 14, 2020
The show inadvertently simplifies the realities of white supremacy with its monster allegory, while treating the Black cast less as characters in their own right and more as vehicles for a sweeping critique of American racism.
