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Placing my critique of #LovecraftCountry 
into one thread so I keep track of my thoughts.
Thread: https://twitter.com/Behembaba/status/1305681692259217408?s=20
into one thread so I keep track of my thoughts. Thread: https://twitter.com/Behembaba/status/1305681692259217408?s=20
Two of the writers on this show are PhD holders who prefer to write stories about Africa 
(among other things). https://deadline.com/2020/06/lovecraft-country-sonya-winton-odamtten-jonathan-kidd-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-people-of-color-feedbchw-challenge-1202950595/
(among other things). https://deadline.com/2020/06/lovecraft-country-sonya-winton-odamtten-jonathan-kidd-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-people-of-color-feedbchw-challenge-1202950595/
There are a total of seven writers on this show: 3 Black women (Misha Green, Sonya Winton-Odamtten & Shannon Houston), 1 Asian Man (Kevin Lau), 1 white gay man (Wes Taylor) and 1 Black gay man (Jonathan I Kidd).
I normally ignore and scroll past the "agenda" tweets but this
I normally ignore and scroll past the "agenda" tweets but this
show could use the perspective of at least on straight Black man; & I'm side-eyeing the narrative around Montrose, I wonder how much of that sex scene was Wes's doing?
The scene in episode 05 where the white women used the less offense "negroe" vs "nigger" in the break room also made me roll eyes. Once again the writers scale back criticism of white women. No way white women in the 1950s didn't use the N-word, hard R.
The show is definitely heading in thay direction. The Brotherhood *is* Patriarchy and the writers have made it clear that Black men are welcomed (Tick) and women aren't (Christina) https://twitter.com/_DWillz/status/1305741046836584448?s=19
Tick's character is emotional, hypersexual and violent. So, yes, I can see that happening. Honestly, given the show so far, he may magically be turned into a literal phallus as a key to the door of Adam 
https://twitter.com/_DWillz/status/1305744042303590400?s=19
https://twitter.com/_DWillz/status/1305744042303590400?s=19
#LovecraftCountryEp6 
: I normally like tellings of the various Asian nine-tell fox stories but this wasn't it. I really do NOT enjoy the writing on this show. At. All. It is inconsistent and all over the place. Lovecraft country feels like a professor handing out a syllabus
: I normally like tellings of the various Asian nine-tell fox stories but this wasn't it. I really do NOT enjoy the writing on this show. At. All. It is inconsistent and all over the place. Lovecraft country feels like a professor handing out a syllabus
to students with topics without deep diving into any of the assigned topics. Just mentioning them and moving on, leaving it up to the viewer to do the necessary homework.
The problems that I have had with this show continue.
Atticus is a supporting character in what is
The problems that I have had with this show continue.
Atticus is a supporting character in what is
supposed to be his own narrative. I no longer consider Atticus to be the protagonist. This show is definitely not about him and when it is about him the writers do him so wrong.
#LovecraftCountry is supposed to be set in Jim Crow and chronicle the life of Black Americans
#LovecraftCountry
is supposed to be set in Jim Crow and chronicle the life of Black Americans
navigating Jim Crow in a Lovecraftian environment (read: monsters thrown in). #LovecraftCountryEp6 spent the entire episode humanizing the Kumiho (Korean 9 tail fox). Despite being a summoned spirit requiring 100 souls (i.e. murdering) the writers made sure to make us
spent the entire episode humanizing the Kumiho (Korean 9 tail fox). Despite being a summoned spirit requiring 100 souls (i.e. murdering) the writers made sure to make us
sympathize with her. Nothing wrong with that (I suppose). But what about Atticus?! #LovecraftCountry isn't supposed to be about the Korean War. In the context of this show, this episode should've been about the nuances and experiences of Atticus navigating the Korean war. Hell,
isn't supposed to be about the Korean War. In the context of this show, this episode should've been about the nuances and experiences of Atticus navigating the Korean war. Hell,
the writers spent more time giving nuance to the random Korean-Amerian soldier who was drafted. Making sure that we (the viewer) understand that Atticus volunteered for the war vs the drafted Korean-American man thus freeing the Korean-American man from his actions of war.
And that brings me to Atticus. Atticus (1) murdered a Korean woman for being a communist without thought or emotion b/c he was just following orders and (2) was downgraded, yet again, to being a monster on par to a summoned homicidal Kumiho demon spirit.
Catherine Braithwaite despises Atticus for being male. Yahima didn't "blame" him for the sins of his forefathers (like he's responsible for the happenings of grand wizards). The Kumiho spirit had to talk him into feeling some emotion b/c, after all, he's a dangerous
monster on an equal footing to summoned spirits (and don't forget he volunteered for the war so that's totally on him); & Letitia, in episode 5, I believe, found him to be violent.
And the writers appear to be obsessed with him being a virgin. Or something to do with his sexual
And the writers appear to be obsessed with him being a virgin. Or something to do with his sexual
frustration (or something). Atticus's entire character can be summed up into emotional, hypersexual and violent. That's basically all he has going for him. Other characters in the show have more to do and more nuanced than what is written for Atticus.
#LovecraftCountry is
#LovecraftCountry
is
making me understand why The Internet hates SJWs writing for film and television. They ruin the narrative.
At this point, I'm going to continue watching the show just to see how it ends. I'm happy #JonathanMajors found work in the MCU. Hopefully, he'll find
At this point, I'm going to continue watching the show just to see how it ends. I'm happy #JonathanMajors found work in the MCU. Hopefully, he'll find
#LovecraftCountryEp7 
. Two things I really liked about this episode: the badass astronomy/math skills of #Hippolyta and the ending sequence of #Hippolyta with the celestial being (that was beautiful).
I agree with @ChampagneSharks . The writing on this show
. Two things I really liked about this episode: the badass astronomy/math skills of #Hippolyta and the ending sequence of #Hippolyta with the celestial being (that was beautiful). I agree with @ChampagneSharks . The writing on this show
feels like Black academics who are workshopping their frustrations of working in and among white liberals who don't allow them to fully flourish.
Tick is not the protagonist of this show. I have yet to read the novel this show is allegedly based on but I suspect
Tick is not the protagonist of this show. I have yet to read the novel this show is allegedly based on but I suspect
much was changed from the source material. Tick - and really, all the men in this show - have no real development. Nothing
This episode entails #Hippolyta discovering herself. And she does this by 1) cracking the code of the orrery 2) traveling to the coordinates
This episode entails #Hippolyta
discovering herself. And she does this by 1) cracking the code of the orrery 2) traveling to the coordinates
3) speaking to a evolved being 4) expressing her frustrations with how white society has restricted ("lynched") her to Josephine Baker in a Paris cabaret and how she wants to kill white people only to be 5) teleported to Africa to develop fighting skills to fight British (?)
invaders to discover her name and freedom.
Was that meant to be a parallel to how we're supposed to escape to Africa to find ourselves & be truly free from an oppressive white America? Is that the solution? A repurposed meaning of Afro-futurism where we are to run to Africa.
Was that meant to be a parallel to how we're supposed to escape to Africa to find ourselves & be truly free from an oppressive white America? Is that the solution? A repurposed meaning of Afro-futurism where we are to run to Africa
.
I shouldn't be seeing the writers in this show. I should be seeing the characters (if that makes sense).
The sequence with #Hippolyta and her husband was interesting. She blamed him entirely for the frustrations she was feeling in life b/c he shrunk her in much the
The sequence with #Hippolyta
and her husband was interesting. She blamed him entirely for the frustrations she was feeling in life b/c he shrunk her in much the
same way that white society has restricted her (as expressed to Josephine Baker in Paris). I was actually going along with this. If that's how #Hippolyta felt than that's how she felt. Marriage wasn't her thing, meaning that her daughter was irrelevant. Or should have been. The
felt than that's how she felt. Marriage wasn't her thing, meaning that her daughter was irrelevant. Or should have been. The
writers completely ditched her daughter in order for #Hippolyta to discover herself and I thought they were going to end by #Hippolyta admitting that she never wanted to be a mother in addition to regretting her marriage. But no lol; that would be too much for this writing crew.
to discover herself and I thought they were going to end by #Hippolyta admitting that she never wanted to be a mother in addition to regretting her marriage. But no lol; that would be too much for this writing crew.
They waited until the very last minute of the episode for #Hippolyta to state that she needs to return b/c her daughter needs her.
Note: I'm not surprised this episode did what it did
to state that she needs to return b/c her daughter needs her. Note: I'm not surprised this episode did what it did
Just started #LovecraftCountryEp8 
and I'm already over it. Emmett Till story? Why is Hollywood addicted to showing us Black trauma porn? And have zero faith in the talents of these writers to do his story any justice.
and I'm already over it. Emmett Till story? Why is Hollywood addicted to showing us Black trauma porn? And have zero faith in the talents of these writers to do his story any justice.
Im at the scene now where Ruby takes the potion to morph into a white woman to have sex with Christiania Braithwaite as a white man.
I do not understand this show at all! https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1312981882850742272?s=19
I do not understand this show at all! https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1312981882850742272?s=19
Ruby is really giving Christina Braithwaite a lecture on privilege and how she needs her to feel her pain? #LovecraftCountryEp8 is for Black liberals frustrated with their white liberal friends.
is for Black liberals frustrated with their white liberal friends.
They really had Tic'a dyslexic father read the incantation for a spell?
Did these writers really give Emmitt Till's story to a white woman.... only for her to be invulnerable and reborn after being brutally murdered?! #LovecraftCountryEp8
I can not believe these writers. They opened with Emmitt Till's murder, re-enacted it in a way with a white woman protected by magic and then closed with Montrose being an accessory to his niece's murder?!!
What the hell!
#LovecraftCountryEp8 https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1312983409136984066?s=19
What the hell!
#LovecraftCountryEp8
https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1312983409136984066?s=19
The thread of Black men being violent and dangerous is woven throughout this show. With the 9 tails the writers gave her the line "that's my nature, what's your excuse" when Tic questioned her about her murdering 99 men. Because tic is the real monster
And to have Montrose restrain his niece as she's killed by the #JigABobo was ridiculous. It made no sense. In a universe where he is well aware of magic he still managed to murder (again). These writers have lost their damn minds.
And I don't understand the relationship between Ruby and Christiania who are technically in a lesbian relationship which Ruby justifies as being her need for access to magic (I can't lol). Yet Montrose is emotionally broken & violent over his sexuality. #LovecraftCountryEp8
HBO is owned by Warner Brothers which owns DC Comics which in turn owns Milestone Comics which owns the Static IP. I hope the writers of #LovecraftCounty have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the #StaticShock movie currently in development.
I don't understand the need for Black trauma porn. And Netflix just purchased #RyanMurphy show #Monster, a story on #jeffreydahmer. Why? And of course they have Black writers attached to justify this what-I-assume will be poorly written garbage. #LovecraftCountryEp8
I just can't believe in an episode that opens with the murder of Emmitt Till they made Montrose (a Black man) have a hand in the murder of a Black girl.
These writers have lost their entire minds.
#LovecraftCountryEp8 @MishaGreen @ItsIhuoma
These writers have lost their entire minds.
#LovecraftCountryEp8
@MishaGreen @ItsIhuoma
*Emmett (stupid phone)
Emmett Till was murdered by the actions of a white woman. The theory that Christina Braithwaite had to be "murdered" herself to feel what Ruby feels is absolutely insulting. The writers should've left it at her being apathetic towards Emmett & Black pain. But no, they had
to find a way to humanize a female white supremacist who is the only white woman in the show. Whereas in real life the white woman who got Emmett killed didn't give two fucks.
#LovecraftCountry writers are garbage.
#LovecraftCountry
writers are garbage.
Why on earth was an episode dealing with the murder of Emmett Till written by a Nigerian woman? #LovecraftCountryEp8
The lack of awareness is interesting. They erased Emmett Till in his own narrative and in effect did what they criticize Black men for doing regarding #SayHerName.
#LovecraftCountry is a mess from all sides.
#LovecraftCountry
is a mess from all sides.
Imagine admitting that you repurposed Emmett Till's story for *your* own personal narrative only to pat yourself on the back.
#LovecraftCountry #LovecraftCountryEp8
#LovecraftCountry
#LovecraftCountryEp8
