Lovecraft Country

OU Ariakas said:

So you're saying someone cannot have an opinion if they are a huge HP Lovecraft fan but also think that this is a stupid concept?




Acknowledgement of racism? They literally talk about saying which is worse, white people in the 50's or cosmic horror monsters. I'm not saying that it won't be good, but that sounds like a fucking retarded and actually racist premise.

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I don't know if you actually read the book, but the concept works. I don't know much about the show other than it existing. Yeah, the author pretty clearly wrote this book in direct response to Lovecraft's well known, quite extreme racism. But it doesn't abandon the Lovecraft in the Lovecraft book, it embraces it, imo a really good read and the racial stuff isolating the family in their struggle with the order, to me it works.

a_skeleton_03 said:

Sure you can, if this was a Lovecraft book they adapted, it was not.

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It isn't a "Lovecraft book" but it's a "Lovecraft Mythos" book. A lot of people have problems with that, as a concept. And even on the Lovecraft reddit, this book was divisive, but I think needlessly so. It's a good book and it's accurate for the time period. Like, people bitch and moan about diversity for diversity's sake, and while I may not get the passion I agree with the basic idea that is the wrong kind of diversity and everyone sees through it and it doesn't actually add anything to the story. A better kind of diversity is rather than just doing the same stories (but with black actors!), maybe tell new stories that wouldn't work otherwise, or just didn't get the opportunity before. Sure the fuck beats just having a new slave movie every few years and calling that "diversity".

fwiw, some of the best sci-fi and fantasy I've read, ever, has been in the past few years from "diverse" authors telling stories that are rooted in cultures I didn't know anything about (Dreamblood duology from Jemison) or exploring concepts like AI pushed to the furthest extreme (Imperial Radch trilogy by Leckie). That's some good diversity.

There's ongoing anti-white pogroms, like this half-russian Smollet family tried to incite in 2019 for a now 2020 executive nominee, to promote anti-white legislation.

Keep that in mind while reading self-destructive fetishism in threads like this.

I mean... that's probably when a lot of lynching happened? idk, not like subterfuge matters when you are the police.

I liked it. I didn't like the shoggoth monsters or whatever, kind of cheeseball, that's certainly one direction to go with Lovecraftian stuff I guess, I generally prefer a more subtle approach. I do get the homage they were going for, loved Evil Dead, but I was hoping more gothic horror less wacky gore. Juicy Smolliet's sister has a fat ass. I like the addition of the music stuff, for now anyway, could be cheesy or could be cool. Evil Dead cabin was lol. Interesting enough to continue watching, if it sticks to the stories in the book it will be cool.

chthonic-anemos said:

There's ongoing anti-white pogroms, like this half-russian Smollet family tried to incite in 2019 for a now 2020 executive nominee, to promote anti-white legislation.

Keep that in mind while reading self-destructive fetishism in threads like this.

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Funny I don't recall any large scale massacre of white people going on in the US. I am pretty sure we would have noticed a pogrom vs white people. If you just mean changing some laws so things are less blatently favoring white people or disfavoring non whites that's not a pogrom.

Utnayan said:

So, was it any good? Saw Jordan Peele on this project and was instantly going to think this was a sit storm of what he did with Twilight Zone on CBS Access.

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I liked it the first few minute dream scene is fucking weird as hell. Overall though it gets to weird creatures in the first episode which is faster than I thought.

chaos said:

I mean... that's probably when a lot of lynching happened? idk, not like subterfuge matters when you are the police.

I liked it. I didn't like the shoggoth monsters or whatever, kind of cheeseball, that's certainly one direction to go with Lovecraftian stuff I guess, I generally prefer a more subtle approach. I do get the homage they were going for, loved Evil Dead, but I was hoping more gothic horror less wacky gore. Juicy Smolliet's sister has a fat ass. I like the addition of the music stuff, for now anyway, could be cheesy or could be cool. Evil Dead cabin was lol. Interesting enough to continue watching, if it sticks to the stories in the book it will be cool.

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It kinda is when a lot of lynchings happened.. The people doing the lynching were often important people in towns and or law enforcement themselves so they felt no real need/reason to hide what they were doing. Just whip up a mob and sic them on the target.

Watched it last night, thought it was pretty good. I like the central characters and it created enough of a desire to see the next episode so it did a good job.

The only scene I didn't like was when they were in the street singing and that was only because I thought they sounded bad. I don't remember that from the book either but I read it a while back now.

Full First Episode on YouTube for free.

Give it an 8/10. Will definitely watch next episode.

I found the first half of ep1 a bit boring, second half was good though, will watch more.