Lovecraft, the virulently racist author of the kind of pulpy novels Atticus adores. Following up on the disappearance of his estranged father (Michael Kenneth Williams), Atticus embarks on a road trip to a peculiar corner of New England not found on any map, but named to draw associations with the work of H.P. Set in 1955, Green’s adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel begins with a young soldier - Jonathan Majors’ Atticus - returning home to Chicago still psychologically scarred from his experiences in Korea. This is a show that hooks you fast - and one toward which it’s nearly impossible to be ambivalent. Lovecraft Country may not always be better than HBO’s Watchmen, another recent show that used popular genre forms as a way in to larger sociological debates, but it often makes Watchmen (or even executive producer Jordan Peele’s Get Out) look tentative by comparison.
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