“Lovecraft Country,” a new drama on HBO, begins with a scene of degradation; soldier Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) emerges from a foxhole to see a winged, tentacled creature flying overhead. Another fantastical monster is destroyed by Jackie Robinson, then reconstitutes itself to devour the pathbreaking baseball player when Atticus wakes up from this dream in the back seat of a segregated bus. One sort of horror is over; now Atticus is just a Black man traveling through the American South in the 1950s.
That this represents less a return to safety and more a toggle between different sorts of surreal inhumanity is the case “Lovecraft Country” makes at some length. Created by Misha Green (with Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams credited as executive producers) and based on the novel by Matt Ruff, “Lovecraft Country” is rooted in traditions of horror, and uses that genre’s tools to argue that, for Black citizens,...
That this represents less a return to safety and more a toggle between different sorts of surreal inhumanity is the case “Lovecraft Country” makes at some length. Created by Misha Green (with Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams credited as executive producers) and based on the novel by Matt Ruff, “Lovecraft Country” is rooted in traditions of horror, and uses that genre’s tools to argue that, for Black citizens,...
- 8/7/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
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