Lovecraft Country (2020)
Take back your legacy.
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 16 August 2020 |
| Status | Canceled |
| Genre | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Created by | Misha Green |
| Starring | Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Wunmi Mosaku |
| Seasons | 1 season, 10 episodes |
| Episode length | about 60 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 10 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.1/10 |
Where to watch Lovecraft Country
Lovecraft Country is streaming on Max ($18.49 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Max, or $18.49 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Lovecraft Country layers cosmic horror over the visceral reality of Jim Crow America. It is 10 hours of tension where a missing father becomes a monster and a road trip becomes a survival test. The show asks if the real world is scarier than the fictional one. It likely is, but the monsters make the point visually.
What the critics said
Critics mostly landed on the positive side. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 88% based on 367 reviews, averaging 8.05 out of 10. Metacritic sits at 79, a solid "generally favorable" score from 42 critics. Shannon Miller of The A.V. Club liked how it handled Lovecraft’s messy legacy, while Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com called it "marvelously entertaining." Not everyone was charmed. Daniel D'Addario of Variety argued the horror felt like an inadequate counterweight to real human evil. A fair point, though it makes for a heavy watch.
How it did with audiences
No box office numbers exist for Lovecraft Country, so the financial ledger stays blank. The audience verdict lives in the TMDB user score, which sits at 7.1 out of 10. That is a solid, unglamorous number. It suggests people watched it, thought about it, and gave it a fair shake without losing their minds. It is the rating of a show that worked for the people who stuck around.
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Sources
- Lovecraft Country on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q31202701 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Lovecraft Country (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Where to watch and prices: Binge Boss, from TMDB watch-provider data (powered by JustWatch) and our own provider list
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