Lovecraft Country (2020)
- Genre
- drama television series, horror television series, speculative fiction, fantasy television series, paranormal television program, thriller television series
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 1 season, 10 episodes
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 785 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Black man in 1950s Jim Crow America searches for his missing father. He uncovers dark secrets tied to a town that inspired H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories.
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What happens
Lovecraft Country is an American Black horror historical fantasy drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO. The series is produced by Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. Television. The series is about a young Black man who travels across the segregated United States in the 1950s in search of his missing father, learning of dark secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H. P. Lovecraft supposedly based the location of many of his fictional tales. In 2021, while a second season, Lovecraft Country: Supremacy, was in development, HBO cancelled the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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