Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Matt Ruff. It premiered on
August 16, 2020, on HBO. The series is produced by Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, and Warner Bros. Television with executive producers including
Jordan Peele, Green, J. J. Abrams, and Ben Stephenson. The story is about a young black man who travels across the segregated 1950s United States 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.
Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freeman as he joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search
of his missing father. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback".
Lovecraft Country tells a series of interconnected science fiction stories set in 1950’s America. It opens with Atticus, a black man, driving into an area where Lovecraftian monsters are rumored to have been spotted, in search of his missing father. The novel teems with supernatural dangers and other-worldly creatures, but it’s set among a group of characters that also have to contend with the very realistic dangers and difficulties of being black in Jim Crow America. It’s a collection of short stories (though there is a main plot line that connects them all), that delves into a wide range of science fiction and a bit of fantasy, ranging from Lovecraftian monsters to space travel and ghostly spirits.
|
|
© fullhouse-unofficial.com
|
|