Tag: Lovecraft Country

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…

Warning: This article contains discussion of racism, violence, torture, death, murder, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. This week’s Lovecraft Country picks up — thematically if not temporally — from where its predecessor left off. With a wound comes a fallout, with loss…

Warning: This article contains mentions of racism, racist violence, slavery, rape, death, gun violence, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. Where Lovecraft Country left us with last week’s striking first episode, our heroes found themselves harried, harangued and worse for wear, but with…

Warning: This article contains mentions of racism and racist violence, and slight spoilers for Lovecraft Country Episode 1.  Before I say anything else, I want to say: go read black writers’ reviews of this episode and this show. Use your search engine…