- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 16, 2020
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 161 Ratings
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Positive: 85 out of 161
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Mixed: 16 out of 161
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Negative: 60 out of 161
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Aug 17, 2020To much politics and indoctrination, not enough of the Lovecraft. The great potential of original stories wasted.
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Aug 17, 2020I was so excited to see a Lovecraft inspired how being on HBO. I just watched the first episode and will definitely not be watching another. Lovecraft is a very specific type of psychological horror that this show does not appear to be attempting to acheive. I'll just rewatch ReAnimator or Dagon .
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Aug 16, 2020Very mediocre fantasy; the world-building was very poorly done - I felt we were hopping from one set to the next. Then infuse it with 2020 political agendas and you have the recipe for one painful first episode.
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Aug 19, 2020
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Aug 16, 2020Boring AF. Great production values. Did they have to rey and ruin Lovecraft for me? Do we really think Cthulu gives a **** about race? Laughing My Transdementional Ancient Ass Off.
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Aug 16, 2020Amazing start to finish. I assume the downvotes were folks that really wish all of the racism lovecraft had was still 100% instilled in this show.
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Oct 2, 2020
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Dec 24, 2020Disappointing.
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Sep 2, 2020
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Sep 5, 2020I can’t describe how disappointed I am — was really hoping this would be good. Feelsbadman
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Sep 3, 2020
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Sep 3, 2020Does every show these days have to be about racism. Hate to break it to the loony liberals but this is not the 1950’s and 1960’s when there really was unlike today systemic racism .
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Aug 20, 2020I loved the book, but I don't feel the same about the show. TV writers had to do it again. Removed stuff, added stuff and created an unspeakable monstrosity from beyond (just to give a lovecraftian note). Dear writers, if you have such brilliant ideas, why don't you write your own novel/book and just let other people's work alone. Nice music though.
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Aug 30, 2020Racist, anti-white nonsense and woke tripe for progressive soy boys and idiots. EVERY white character is a racist bigot, it's absolutely laughable garbage.
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Aug 19, 2020Zwiastun odkrywa wszystkie karty przed widzem. Wiemy kto jest dobry/zły , jak wyglądają potwory . Lovecraft w tytule to chyba jakaś pomyłka. Oczywiście serial jest bezpieczny dla Lgbt qztxd mamy tu walkę z rasizmem I złymi białasami. Krótko mówiąc kolejny syf pokroju nowych ghoost busters albo nowych gwiezdnych wojen.
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Sep 8, 2020The writing is compelling and the reinvention of the story is imaginative and fun. The acting is pretty awful however, and over the top.
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Aug 21, 2020To much politics and indoctrination, Very mediocre fantasy, I don't feel the same about the book is very different.
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Sep 9, 2020
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Aug 23, 2020It Is terribile. Seems like a CW TV show. Terribile script. No sense of mistery. Is light years away from true detective season 1, which Is the Ideal for a cosmic horror TV show.
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Oct 19, 2020poor Lovecraft, loved his work but this is pure **** seems like the directors missed his books at all
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Aug 28, 2020To keep it short.
90% of the show - Racism is bad. Racism is really bad. Don't you know that racism is bad? We just want you to understand that racism is bad. Because, you know, racism is bad. You sure you won't forget that racism is bad? Good. Because is so bad, like, really bad.
5% of the show - bad writing
5% of the show - some Lovecraftian "horror"
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Aug 17, 2020Quite nonsensical and more of a 'ooooo spooky' take on Lovecraft than well-plotted psychological horror. It's basically what you'd expect from middling IQs taking on something out of their league while trying to push anti-racism to make up for any real substance. Yawn.
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Aug 19, 2020
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Aug 17, 2020god forbid we simply get a lovecraft based show instead of preachy nonsense
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Aug 23, 2020Typical garbage that promotes agenda over entertainment. Racial politics is the real monster in this show, not the amazing horrors that Lovecraft developed. I find it hilarious that other reviewers are suggesting that if you do not like a show, you are racist. Projection is an ugly tactic if you want to be taken seriously. Or, in the words of SJWs "Are you assuming my race"?
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Aug 16, 2020SJW propaganda thats trashing on lovecraft mythos... mediocre story, bad casting. This is what i call race whiner.
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Aug 17, 2020Jordan Peele, HBO, afro-american ... 10 Emmys please ! In 2020 people pay to be indoctrinated, that's crazy.
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Sep 1, 2020
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Aug 16, 2020This episode was great best new start to a show I've seen all year. I hope it keeps this up through the season will update if my opinion changes.
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Aug 16, 2020Great first episode and great character building. It was a suspenseful first episode and I think it will get better from here!
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Aug 16, 2020Una excelente serie muy atrapante e interesante la recomiendo a todo público
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Aug 16, 2020Great first episode. Love that the backdrop of 1950's America and racism playing a role in the supernatural horror that's present as well. Refreshing to see black characters that aren't in something with a white savior complex. Can't wait to see where this goes.
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Aug 16, 2020HBO succeeds in following Wesley Snipes famous sage advice: “Always bet on Black!”
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Aug 16, 2020Off to a great start so far. Faithful to the book, great casting. Really looking forward to the rest of the season. Ignore the 0/10 ratings, they’re just NPCs sent by extremist YouTubers for political reasons.
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Aug 16, 2020Talented, Brilliant, Incredible, Amazing, Showstopping, Spectacular, Never The Same, Totally Unique, Completely Not Ever Been Done Before, Unafraid To Reference Or Not Reference, Put It In A Blender, **** On It, Vomit On It, Eat It, Give Birth To It.
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Aug 17, 2020Vão se fuderr seus racistas de merda que estão dando nota baixa **** your racists who are giving low rating
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Aug 17, 2020Great Premiere episode... Too many subject matter & genres packed in one!
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Aug 18, 2020Great Show! The acting is great and the setup for the rest of the season is perfect. It’s like stranger things for adults.
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Aug 16, 2020I wish I could’ve watched this first episode with people who assumed it was just a Green Book redux.....then that 3rd act hits, YIKES! Solid first episode and an interesting start to the series.
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Aug 17, 2020Muito bom o episódio de estreia, roteiro e efeitos especiais ótimos, além de retratar sutilmente o horror do racismo naquela época.
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Oct 18, 2020The first episode was good but not great. It's hard to anticipate what path will the series follow, but the violence, monsters, and racial themes seem like a good starting point. Four episodes in, the series' adventure tone collides with the horror drama. The plot is confusing at times but still entertaining.
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Aug 28, 2020Don't pay attention to the Trump snowflakes who are offended by the reality of racism depicted in this show. Such a fantastic show that explores many different themes.
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Aug 17, 2020Waited a long time for some H.p Lovecraft on the Tv screen, the first episodes looks promising from what you could expect for a H.p based show, but are a bit messy around some corners, that they may even out later in the season. im looking forward to this show and hope it hits the peak :D
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Aug 27, 2020This show is a trip! The acting is amazing and the production value is top notch. Excited to see where it goes every week HBO does it again
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Aug 24, 2020Probably an 8 but gotta offset the salty people who hate when black people are in their HBO shows
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Aug 23, 2020Very strong start, promising cast and world-building. Well crafted and poignant.
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Aug 23, 2020Wow, look at all these racist Lovecraft fans who are upset that a show with Lovecraft in its title is unflinching in its depiction of racism.
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Dec 13, 2020Think the source material is just bad, the actual tv adaption is better then the book its based on. So good actors, good filming everything except the actual story is good. These actors and director are wasted on this.
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Jan 12, 2021Just watched first episode, felt great. I will come back when I finished the whole season.
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Dec 15, 2020
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Sep 7, 2020Loving this show so far! Every episode draws me in. It’s got everything from horror, drama, adventure, romance. It has an awesome soundtrack from modern hits to classic. Every episode I root for the characters and truly feel their struggles for equality and the struggle against evil.
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Aug 23, 2020
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Nov 4, 2020
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May 28, 2023A worthy effort to try and do something interesting and different with horror, and it mostly succeeds. A bit disjointed, but tbf an improvement in this regard over the book.
Awards & Rankings
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The pacing of the near-hour long installments feature spasms of crawling. Nevertheless, the flirting beauty of the most powerful scenes, the fleeting profoundness of when poetic prose are strewn across lyrical montages, and the authentic, psychological performances by the cast, make Green’s “Lovecraft Country” a woozy, intoxicating genre odyssey.
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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 show finds its strongest moments when it layers realism atop metaphorical racism to induce a mounting, increasingly surreal two-fold horror. It’s weaker in terms of connecting those moments back to its overarching plot. But that weakness also feels intentional and refreshing — as if the show is also repudiating the pompous dramatics of its silly cult full of white people trying to something something pure bloodlines, something something sorcery, something something existential cosmic terror.