Lovecraft Country

[mdmost 43,060]

Premieres tonight on HBO. After Watchmen and Perry Mason, I'm fine with letting HBO take me on another Sunday night journey.

 

Edited August 16, 2020 by mdmost

[RPM 26,370]

I've not heard many good reviews for this. It's a Jordan Peele production, so I wouldn't write it off just yet. He's a sci-fi geek.

[Js1 85,638]

Really? I’ve seen the opposite for reviews 

[demos 3,012]

Cthulu time.



Really want this to be good.

[rage-a-holic 4,496]

awesome, more jordan peele race baiting garbage.

[Js1 85,638]

Twas weird. I liked it 

[Js1 85,638]

42 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:

awesome, more jordan peele race baiting garbage.

Then don’t watch 

[HornOnTheBayou 8,955]

47 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:

awesome, more jordan peele race baiting garbage.

Edited August 17, 2020 by HornOnTheBayou

[mdmost 43,060]

2 hours ago, rage-a-holic said:

awesome, more jordan peele race baiting garbage.

Christ, you really are a baby, aren't you? Oh noes, a show with black characters set before the 60s. I really hope they don't talk about the racism of that era. It will really hurt my enjoyment of the show.

This seems like it will be fun.  

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2,652]

Well that escalated quickly. 
I like the premise, but everything seems rushed so far. 

[rage-a-holic 4,496]

20 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Christ, you really are a baby, aren't you? Oh noes, a show with black characters set before the 60s. I really hope they don't talk about the racism of that era. It will really hurt my enjoyment of the show.

This seems like it will be fun.  

lol

[elfenix 34,344]

does this mean i shouldn't point out that lovecraft was racist as fuck?

[rage-a-holic 4,496]

10 minutes ago, elfenix said:

does this mean i shouldn't point out that lovecraft was racist as fuck?

If you mean he disliked many different races/ethnicities, sure. Blacks, Irish, Germans, etc.

As noted by one of his biographers "Lovecraft's racial attitude was common in the society of his day, especially in the New England in which he grew up".

[Texas Flood 1,356]

Can't be racist when everyone was doing it duh

[Red Five 40,960]

That was pretty great. Structurally it reminded me of From Dusk Til Dawn.

[Hank Scorpio 17,731]

Cthulhu’s girlfriend secretly recorded him saying all this messed up stuff about the blacks and the Jews. 

[rage-a-holic 4,496]

6 minutes ago, Texas Flood said:

Can't be racist when everyone was doing it duh

The point, dickhead, is that just about every New Englander during that time was a fucking racist.

I was quoting " lovecraft was racist as fuck", which has about as much meaning as "lovecraft drank lots of water". No shit, so did everyone else.

[Firemans4Horn 18,132]

“there were bad people on both sides” guy has entered the chat. 

[A-Tex Devil 2,464]

Liked it other than the Massachusetts sheriffs with the southern accents.  

[Celery Man 21,020]

lol

They put social commentary in our horror fiction!

[irishtexan 11,530]

The point, dickhead, is that just about every New Englander during that time was a fucking racist.
I was quoting " lovecraft was racist as fuck", which has about as much meaning as "lovecraft drank lots of water". No shit, so did everyone else.

This is pretty simple. Don’t watch it and let everyone else who is watching it discuss the show without having to wade through your swamp of menstrual blood.

[mr. sunshine 2,833]

6 hours ago, Xian said:

everything seems rushed so far. 

This. Also Jurnee Smollett appears to be a fine MFer

[mdmost 43,060]

Yes, she's quite fetching. 

[NOMAAA 1,696]

pink pants loading the car was a nice little scene.

[Scary Stranger 1,715]

So did it shove the racism angle down the throat or was it more backgroundy subtext?

[Radical Larry 28,664]

pink pants loading the car was a nice little scene.

Damn right it was.

[Kermit 3,159]

27 minutes ago, Scary Stranger said:

So did it shove the racism angle down the throat or was it more backgroundy subtext?

I don’t know how you can possibly do subtle, background racism in the time period they’re in and in the uncle’s profession. 

[mdmost 43,060]

1 hour ago, Scary Stranger said:

So did it shove the racism angle down the throat or was it more backgroundy subtext?

Perhaps watch for yourself and decide. 

[utxmike05 1,828]

Enjoyed the first ep.
I was worried because the trailers made this look like it was going to be full on acid trip-fantasy-horror.
But the first 45mins was normal story telling, then it got good weird. Enjoying the main cast so far.
Waiting for Peele’s wild plot ideas to reveal like the movie Us...


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[d2o 1,602]

On 8/17/2020 at 6:32 AM, mr. sunshine said:

This. Also Jurnee Smollett appears to be a fine MFer

Always has been

 

Thoroughly enjoyed the first ep (in no small part due to Jurnee).   Its Peele so there will be plenty of social commentary and I love that.   I also liked that the uncle is helping with the Green Book.   Bits of little known history mixed into stories have always been something I like seeing.    Looking forward to where this takes us.

Edited August 19, 2020 by d2o

[Kermit 3,159]

I did not know that she was Juicy Smoolieyay’s sister. 

[d2o 1,602]

1 hour ago, Kermit said:

I did not know that she was Juicy Smoolieyay’s sister. 

Yeah she was famous long before he was actually.   Been in movies since she was kid.   I think Eve's Bayou was her first movie.

[Kermit 3,159]

Well she’s finer than frog hair.

[Zepol87 9,198]

On 8/17/2020 at 9:41 AM, NOMAAA said:

pink pants loading the car was a nice little scene.

Great little scene and I enjoyed the diner scene outfit as well. Fuck she is fine as hell. Forgot how many movies she was in

[CooterBrown 18,035]

Enjoyed the first episode. One question though, it wasn’t clear whether in the show’s universe if they already know Lovecraftian monsters exist. Did they confirm that they already knew it was a thing?

[Zepol87 9,198]

Everyone seemed confused as shit when they showed up 

[Deej 76,983]

rage-a-holic: "Stop putting uppity negroes on my TV. I'm tired of hearing about their problems."

[mdmost 43,060]

^^^God, why is HBO forcing me to watch something that Jordan Peele was a part of?

 

The opening sci-fi montage was great. 

https://collider.com/lovecraft-country-episode-1-opening-scene-explained/

Edited August 20, 2020 by mdmost

[CooterBrown 18,035]

Everyone seemed confused as shit when they showed up 

Yeah but if I’m on the green belt and a dozen grizzlies started murdering people, I’d be confused as shit. I don’t think their reaction meant they didn’t know such things existed.

[Zepol87 9,198]

True. Plus they figured it out pretty damn fast but I would the cops would have said something being from the area. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,111]

That whole bit with the ghost car heroics straight out of The Wraith sure seemed to get weirdly glossed over when they were talking about it after the fact. 

But I don't know whether that all makes it more or less likely that the story takes place in a strange world. 

Edited August 20, 2020 by Prepuce of Doom

[demos 3,012]

Omar comin’

Also digging the soundtrack.

[Message Board User 12,396]

On 8/16/2020 at 10:55 PM, Xian said:

Well that escalated quickly. 
I like the premise, but everything seems rushed so far. 

Spot on.

[TheStoicPaisano 9,939]

Heathcote and Goldwyn are the perfect smarmy father/daughter duo. 
 

And yeah, soundtrack slams and goes hard.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,111]

Boy, that all sure happened. 

Remember "Calvinball" from Calvin & Hobbes? That's what this episode felt like. 

[utxmike05 1,828]

I don’t know the backstory on this show or purpose.

So is this show supposed to be separate mini-stories that will not be connected? Like is episode 2 the end of that whole Order, monsters, Ardham stuff? And now a new story starts..?


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[Gene Parmesan 4,016]

I liked the first episode.  #2 though was kind of a mess.  They threw half a season worth of material all into 1 episode. 

[mdmost 43,060]

Yeah, episode 2 seemed to have way too much going on and crammed into it. While I like the soundtrack, it does take me out of the era. I guess there were only so many protest songs of the era they could use for the soundtrack (Strange Fruit). 

[DDD Dad 14,365]

Very intense and jam-packed two episodes.  I have tried to keep up with the HBO official podcast (Lovecraft Country Radio) but the two hosts are a bit of a beating.

[Gene Parmesan 4,016]

10 hours ago, utxmike05 said:

I don’t know the backstory on this show or purpose.

So is this show supposed to be separate mini-stories that will not be connected? Like is episode 2 the end of that whole Order, monsters, Ardham stuff? And now a new story starts..?


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I don't know anything of the source material either and this is the vibe I get after episode 2.  Them traveling around getting into various forms of trouble with the overall plot being uncovering his ancestral secrets.