Let’s get into it. My thoughts on #LovecraftCountry now that the season is over. I fell in love with a show that ultimately failed me. Boy do they get a lot of things right but the show’s flaws - be it on the surface narratively & or thematically - should not be set aside.

At it’s core #Lovecraft set out to tell a very ambitious story about the horrors of racism, the tragedy of generational trauma and the value we find as black people in community support & legacy. That is what think the show set out to do. And it succeeds at doing just that.

#Lovecraft succeeds at doing that holistically, but it along the way, as the episodes aired, they attempted to layer in other themes into the story, be it homophobia, american imperialism & I though I appreciated their efforts, they fell incredibly short.

This writer’s room was filled with incredibly skilled black women. I genuinely wonder if they didn’t have the range to sensibly layer in these things OR
If they did, were they just myopically focused on perfecting black race relations at the detriment of other things? #Lovecraft

If you want to read #Lovecraft ’s thematic shortcomings, I could dive into it in follow up replies but I won’t do it in this thread, instead I will suggest you to read this pretty thoughtful review that sums up very well where I think the show failed https://link.medium.com/WJMkn309Iab