Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel of the same name. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO. The series is about a young black man who travels across the segregated 1950s United States in search of his missing father.
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Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Matt Ruff. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO. The series is about a young black man who travels across the segregated 1950s United States in search of his missing father. The episodes establish that the Lovecraft Country novel exists in the continuity of the series as a novel written by George Freeman II fictionalizing the events. The show has received positive reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 90% based on 109 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10.
On Metacritic, the show has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 42 critic reviews, indicating “generally favorable reviews” and “an appreciation of the show’s political vision with an appreciation of American history to reveal the systemic problems underneath” The New York Times described the show as “brutal and furious and righteously righteous” and called the five episodes available for early review “marvelously entertaining”
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