Lovecraft Country spoilers follow.
After ten episodes of magic and mayhem,
Lovecraft Country season one wrapped up with a finale which, true to form, didn t hold back.
Its characters, long accustomed to knockbacks, were delivered yet another blow when Tic (Jonathan Majors) had the lifeblood squeezed right out of him, leaving behind his loved ones, including Leti and their unborn child. With Atticus s arc, I wanted to explore the idea of a meaningful sacrifice, showrunner Misha Green told
Deadline. To take him on a journey from running from death, to walking towards it with purpose. HBO
Lovecraft Country for season two?
from the horror novel it was based on, few were quite as disconcerting and genuinely messed up as Topsy and Bopsy, a pair of demonic twins summoned by racist cops to stalk and torment young Diana Freeman across Chicago. It just so happens that io9 has an exclusive look today at how the frightening pair came to be.
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Where the child-hunting monster is depicted as merely an eerie toy in Matt Ruff’s novel, HBO’s
Lovecraft Country elevates the concepts behind the character by reimagining them not just as demons, but as avatars of the anti-Black racism that take the literal form of racist caricatures popularized by