Lovecraft Country: Season 1 - TV Reviews (2024)

... Less of a conscious-raising social reckoning than a scary-as-F thrill ride where super vampire demons with zillions of eyeballs are lurching and shredding from the shadows.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2022

This is a big, fantastical, pulpy horror series but, at every single instant, it's also grounded in recognisable experiences and actual emotions — and it never lets the audience forget it for a second.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2022

For the first episode Lovecraft Country, showrunner and head writer Misha Green has done a stellar job of introducing viewers to the characters and this world of monsters and men.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2021

HBO's series feels like nothing you expect -- and nothing you've ever seen before.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2021

A resplendent fantasy horror gets tangled up in its own weirdness...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2021

Lovecraft Country is a concerted attempt to subvert, invert and 'colorize' the Lovecraft canon.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2021

"Generally, television shows are better served by declining to handhold their audiences through various twists and turns. But Lovecraft moves straight past 'trust the audience' and runs right into 'the audience can read our minds."

Full Review | Mar 19, 2021

Lovecraft Country wears its progressivism like a costume.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Mar 5, 2021

Lovecraft Country is ultimately a collection of smart and relevant ideas scattered across a collection of strange episodes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

There is no doubt Lovecraft Country is a thoroughly enjoyable, pulpy romp... There are flaws but the conviction and energy in Green's vision shines through.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2021

While it stumbles now and then, Lovecraft Country stands out from the TV pack

Full Review | Feb 22, 2021

Lovecraft Country does a lot of powerful work that's wonderfully informed by genre filmmaking, making for an entertaining series of episodes.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 19, 2021

Lovecraft Country is a perfect case study for what can be achieved when one embraces the endless possibilities that comes with diversity.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Feb 16, 2021

The two leads have great chemistry which serves them well as they navigate the plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2021

Lovecraft Country is, frankly, a complete hot mess, but I mean that in the kindest possible terms.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2021

It has been one helluva performance from Majors, who combined statuesque physicality with an affectingly expressive face. He added heft to what could have tipped into cartoonish fantasy.

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

Rather than weaving the elements of the show together to buttress each other, Lovecraft Country simply piles up a bunch of horror tropes for no discernible reason.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

Despite its gorgeous set pieces and sometimes fantastical events, the series is rooted firmly in convincing characters and plausible relationships.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

This show is wild and crazy, but watching the Black version of an Indiana Jones tale or a haunted house where the spirits show up for the Black characters is thrilling.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020

What makes Lovecraft Country so powerful is not simply its examination of racism through a supernatural lens --rather, the power in its subversion of cosmic horror lies in its challenge of H.P. Lovecraft himself.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2020