Lovecraft Country: Season 1, Episode 10 (2024)

Lovecraft Country ends as it began: beautifully blending genre conventions with Black history to produce an entertaining and often emotional story.

Full Review | Original Score: 9 | Jun 25, 2021

If there is a second season, Diana, Leti, Hippolyta and Ji-Ah would give us more than enough of a story to follow. Until then, Rest In Peace Tic and Ruby. You will be missed as much as this show is on the Sunday nights to come.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

The end of an adrenaline packed show had to be filled with the best of action, visual splendor, adventure and of course out-of-the-world magic. The final episode delivers all of the above, as it runs its course of the good winning over the evil.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Well, that was a pretty unsatisfying end to the first season of HBO's Lovecraft Country. And it's a shame because when the series was working, it was easily the best thing on television this fall.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.2/5 | Dec 30, 2020

It hit all the right notes and brought each character arc to its logical conclusion, allowing everyone to find themselves and each other or at least sacrifice themselves on the altar of ancestral spirit.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Lovecraft Country never knew exactly what to do with any of its characters, nor did it place much of a premium on exploring the psychological or emotional effects of the magical or sci-fi events happening to its characters.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

By the episode's end, I couldn't help but wonder why I stuck around to see it in the first place.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

What we got this time around was a great beginning, a frequently incredible middle, and an underwhelming conclusion.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

The finale of the season (or the series) was emotionally satisfying and tied off nearly every narrative thread neatly, offering closure for many of the characters and setting up some form of new status quo for most of them.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

It would have been a satisfying ending if only Lovecraft Country had actually done the necessary work to earn it.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

Could it have had more monsters? Definitely, but so could most HBO prestige television.

Full Review | Oct 21, 2020

The episode leans a little too heavily into its least interesting aspect, but still manages to capture the emotion of Atticus meeting his mother and Letitia accepting her fate as protector.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2020

Misha Green and company made sure that this show never felt constrained by limited scope, audience demographic or network expectations.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2020

I've had my misgivings about Christina as a character, but her mini-speech in George's shop was an undoubted series highlight.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2020

Well, that certainly could have been a more upbeat season finale.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.75/5 | Oct 20, 2020

I get what Lovecraft Country wants to do; I just don't think it did it.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2020

The final episode of Lovecraft Country serves as a tribute to Black motherhood in all of its many shapes. Highlighting single motherhood, the loss of a mom, and found family, the finale puts a nice bow on the many threads running through Lovecraft Country

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 20, 2020

Its blood-spattered, twist-packed finale didn't stint on the strangeness either and delivered a viscerally powerful, narratively satisfying resolution.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2020

"Full Circle" feels representative of the series as a whole: an ambitious, entertaining, and at times profoundly touching story that admirably aims for - and yet ultimately falls just shy of - its own lofty aspirations.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2020

Was it triumphant? Not always. Did it have flashes of brilliance, haunting imagery, and evocative genre material? Yes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2020