Lovecraft Country: Season 1, Episode 1 (2024)

A brilliant yet bone-chilling series that is Black Excellence at its finest.

Full Review | Original Score: 10 | Jun 24, 2021

Lovecraft Country serves to externalise and metamorphose the hate coursing right now through America into literal, unknowable horror

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2021

As much as Lovecraft Country's advertising plays up the potential for romance between its two leads, Smollett and Majors' performances expertly steer clear of any sort of hero/damsel dynamic in favor of something almost competitive.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2020

It ends on a brilliant cliff-hanger and the period detail has given us a feast for the eyes throughout the episode, leaving us craving more.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2020

The problem for Lovecraft Country is that, in eschewing the mundane features of American racism, they have created two equally burlesque terrors.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2020

It's a wonderful start to the series, both from a social perspective and from a pulp science fiction perspective.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2020

It's entertaining as hell, terrifying in an old fashioned way, and genuinely inspiring which I suspect was the point.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2020

Lovecraft Country holds nothing back in its premiere, and if this episode is anything to go on, the show will only get wilder and better.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 29, 2020

It's all right there in that wonderfully wild opening. Lovecraft Country will blur boundaries between eras, genres, and subjects.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2020

Prep yourself for a show that may begin at a laid-back pace, but has the punch to make you sit up and take note right from the word go.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2020

Lovecraft Country is beautiful to look at and wonderful to listen to, with a bright cast, a sharp style, and a commitment to depicting the full richness of Black lives and the harsh realities of white supremacy. And it's scary-fun high adventure, to boot.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2020

That's the catch with racism, isn't it? There is no escape. At least here, the racists get devoured by vampire-like beasts. And that's when the show first hooked me.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 2, 2020

I recommend it. It's exposing people to a different time...with race and science-fiction. It is going to get weird, folks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2020

With the first episode, Green tackles real world situations but does so with a pulpy heart that, I think, is going to make for an intriguing series.

Full Review | Aug 26, 2020

You won't likely find a tenser scene on TV this year than Atticus and the others attempting to escape a sundown town by car.

Full Review | Aug 19, 2020

The fact "Sundown" ends on a cliffhanger, with a weird white man opening the mansion door and telling Atticus he's been expecting him, prompted a laugh from me. If all this happened in just one episode, what on earth is going to happen next?

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 17, 2020

There is, in otherwords, the proverbial "lot going on." It's enough to earn, if not trust, then certainly interest in the next chapter.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2020

It pricks at the oft-times well-hidden American conscience, which is a worthy accomplishment. It's also a lot of spooky fun, promising more to come.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 17, 2020

Lovecraft Country seeks not to retell the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, nor is it an allegory, for nothing about American culture is hidden in this story... No, Lovecraft Country is fan fiction.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 17, 2020

This is Lovecraft Country also showing off what it can do. It works. We are now ravenous for more, like a shoggoth who has has eaten a single racist cop since sun up.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2020