jonathan majors
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Lovecraft Country’s Season Finale Went There and Back Again With Diminishing Returns
Rather early into its debut season, HBO’s Lovecraft Country did away with an entire gaggle of white supremacist wizards who sought to use their magic to terrorise non-white people. It was a fantastic sight to behold that established what sort of dangers the show’s heroes were up against, but it also set a baseline for…
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Lovecraft Country Expanded Its Mythos With a Carnal Story about War
The degree to which HBO’s Lovecraft Country has already branched off from the novel its based on might give you the sense that at this point, with half the season over, the story might slow down on the worldbuilding to begin fully weaving its core character’s arcs together in the buildup to its finale. But…
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Lovecraft Country Is Getting to the Root of Everyone’s Pain
Much as each of Lovecraft Country’s episodes have further expanded upon its strange world of eldritch magic and white supremacist occultists seeking to control it, the show’s never lost sight of the fact that it’s telling a complicated story about multiple generations of interconnected Black families working though all kinds of pent up guilt, frustration,…
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Lovecraft Country Showrunner Misha Green Discusses the Power of Horror and the Horror of Marginalisation
In a new interview, Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green (Underground) goes deep on some of the intriguing, powerful ideas behind the upcoming show.