Lovecraft Country

We decided to do a month of HBO+ to watch In The Heights [ETA: which we enjoyed] and some Hugo stuff, and so we also finally watched the other nine episodes of Lovecraft Country! I overall liked it a lot and thought it was a good adaptation, although I am a sucker for highly attractive people and I'm sure I was biased by that. Although, on the flip side, I could have done with the gore being dialed back a bit, especially because we somehow ended up watching the very worst episode for it while my parents were here, and they were pretty taken aback (also had the most sex, and sexual violence, which hadn't been a thing onscreen before that point, which I guess teaches me to try to look up some episode-specific content tags before watching anything with my parents).

I have some more specific thoughts behind the cut, with spoilers for both the show and the book.( Read more... )