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Warning: This article contains discussion of homophobia, transphobia, death, suicide, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. Lovecraft Country‘s season 1 finale has come and gone. As it ends, it leaves us sitting on the other side of a wild ride of trauma, grief,…

Warning: This article contains discussion of racism, violence, homophobia, murder, child abuse, and death. Engaging with (and relating to) fantasy, science fiction, horror, and any combination of the above will often, if not always, require accepting some otherworldly or even outlandish logic.…

Warning: This article contains discussion of murder, child death, lynching, racism, police brutality, images of body horror, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. This episode was … a lot. For the majority of its runtime, it was a lot in a good —…

Warning: This article contains discussion of racism, police brutality, murder, homophobia, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. We need to talk about — and by that I mean rhapsodize about — Aunjanue Ellis. Really, we need to do this every week she shows…

Warning: This article contains mentions of rape and incest, parental abuse, images of blood, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. Lovecraft Country’s sixth episode, “Meet Me In Daegu,” offers a change of pace, change of tone, and change of location, largely to the…

Warning: This article contains discussions of rape and transphobia, images of gore, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. My feelings about Lovecraft Country’s fifth episode, “Strange Case,” can best be summed up in one word: complicated. For what it’s worth, I think that’s…

Warning: This article contains mentions of colonialism, anti-Indigenous violence, homophobia, transphobia, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. Lovecraft Country has a well-established trajectory of utilizing, playing with, and subverting familiar entries into various (white) literary and cinematic canons. Lovecraft Country’s fourth episode moves…