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Lovecraft Country Not Renewed for a Second Season at HBO Max
HBO said in a statement to Deadline that the network isn’t moving forward with the second season of Lovecraft Country.
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Lovecraft Country Went Meta and Got Even More Disturbing
With each episode of Lovecraft Country’s first season, a new family member or friend in Atticus Freeman’s midst has been unceremoniously dragged into a dark convergence of events that might result in a Lovecraftian apocalypse. By shifting its focus onto each member of its supporting cast, Lovecraft Country’s been able to make its fantastical world…
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Lovecraft Country Stepped Up Its Game by Going Full Body Horror
By framing H.P. Lovecraft’s own white supremacist beliefs as the ultimate horror plaguing its heroes, Lovecraft Country’s given itself a way of focusing on scares that are more cerebral and emotional than the vicious, tentacled monsters the author popularised in his stories. But with “Strange Case,” the show spends some much needed time getting into…
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Lovecraft Country’s Jurnee Smollett Opens Up About What Makes Leti Who She Is
In the third episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, the series shifts gears in an interesting way as its heroes settle back into their lives in Chicago, newly aware that somewhere in America, there are white supremacist magic users vying to take control of the world through occult means. It’s the sort of mental burden that would exhaust…