Should you watch Lovecraft Country?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Lovecraft Country
Series · 2020
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
The sides of Lovecraft Country
- A road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America
- A son searching for his missing father
- Monsters and secret societies out of cosmic horror
Lovecraft Country is good for you if…
- you like monsters and haunted houses mixed with very real racist terror.
- you want 1950s Jim Crow America seen through Atticus and Leti.
- you like cosmic horror, magic and time travel in a single season.
Lovecraft Country is bad for you if…
- you can't stand graphic gore.
- you'd rather avoid frank sex scenes.
- you can't take racist mobs and lynching violence on screen.
About: racism · family · legacy
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