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

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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