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Lovecraft Country
Created by Misha Greene, and produced by JJ Abrams, and Jordan Peele production
Today we will discuss the first episode titled, Sundown.
(15:10 spoilers)
Lovecraft Country
2020 HBO Drama-Horror series adapted from a 2016 novel of the same name by author Matt Ruff. The story is about a young African American who travels across the U.S. in the 1950’s in search of his missing father
Starring
Jonathan Majors- Atticus Freeman
Jurnee Smollett- Letita ‘Leti’ Lewis
Courtney B. Vance- Uncle George Freeman
Michael Kenneth WIlliams- Montrose Freeman
First episode was a pretty solid opener. It did a good job of establishing the tone of 1950's America before going to H.P. Lovecraft on us. I really felt like this pilot episode was meant to be a LOTR Fellowship of the Ring type episode where Jonathan is Frodo and he leaves the safety of the shire, Chicago, to embark on a dangerous quest to fulfill his destiny. The beauty of this episode is that it transplants trolls, goblins, and Balrog’s for Jim Crow segregation and racism. Our heroes have to be quick, smart, and lucky in order to escape and make it to the safety of Lothlorien (Ardham, or that big mansion at the end of the episode). Really though I enjoyed the beginning because it becomes so crazy so quickly with War of the Worlds type dreams while fighting in the Korean War. Also, his conversation with the woman on the road about the Princess from Mars AKA JOhn Carter, is basically him.
