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Critic Reviews
Aug 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Lovecraft Country is fine. It’s enjoyable, in a ridiculous way; it’s so heightened that it delivers a roller-coaster experience, which is sometimes all you want from a show. ... But be warned that Lovecraft Country is a lot more flash and bang than sustained coherence.
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Aug 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Green has shown a gift for making the worst of our nation’s history into the staging ground for a conversation about the totality of its present. That’s on offer here, as well, but will become clearer as and if “Lovecraft Country” figures out the kind of show it wants to be. Surreality is a way to arrive at a deeper meaning, perhaps, but it requires crisply drawn characters to bring us through.
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Aug 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The series can also feel overheated, over-motivated, muddled and unsubtle, and not just because every single white character is trouble, if not implausibly so, on a scale from casually clueless to actively evil. Its emotional volume has a way of drowning out its humor.
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Aug 24, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show’s script is weighed down by historical annotations; characters refer to themselves and others using the nomenclature of the time (Negro, white) instead of the unqualified pronouns—“we,” “us,” “them”—of actual talk. Innuendo, a staple of melodrama, and a mode in which racialized language thrives, is missing. Neither this nor the show’s cartoonish whites—as viral videos have shown, racists turn cartoonish in the light—would be so distracting if they didn’t deprive mesmerizing talents of their room to work. ... In “Lovecraft Country,” there are revelations but seldom awe.
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The Daily BeastAug 17, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s a bold, heady venture with ambitions as grand as its creatures. Yet at least in its initial installments, it’s an effort routinely undercut by irritatingly sloppy storytelling. That Lovecraft Country is often an overstuffed narrative mess is made all the more frustrating by the fact that its debut episode is an expertly crafted table-settler for a rich saga to come.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 14, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Surreal and tonally muddled, this stylish gore-saturated series is capable of provoking screams and laughs and eye-rolls within the same scenes. [17 - 30 Aug 2020, p.11]
Aug 14, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Racial horror is most effective when the central characters feel rich and fleshed-out, when audiences are invested in them not just out of implied moral obligation. For Lovecraft Country to simply flip the usual script with new creatures, then, isn’t enough. The series needs to double down on its most spirited scenes.
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