Lovecraft Country - HBO's show about shoggoths and Jim Crow

[The Great Chandler]

Funny thing, I read old reddit posts defending the show by saying "it's actually a show where there's no real good guy". While moral ambiguity can make for great writing, there's always a line that has to be drawn when you're writing characters you're going to follow as the story goes. The problem is, we can't relate to these people, not even their pain. It comes off more like a revenge fantasy than a complex examination of the nature of prejudice and what it means to be a monster. It doesn't help that the some of the more universal Lovecraftian themes are left behind to instead fuel a narrative.

If Jordan Peele wanted to make a statement about what it takes to become a monster, then why did it look like he expected us to cheer over raping someone with a shoe when Ruby could at least just kill him there? But then again, it's not like Jordan Peele is known for logic and self-awareness (which is strange because he used to be pretty self-aware then).

 

[Valstrax]

Funny thing, I read old reddit posts defending the show by saying "it's actually a show where there's no real good guy". While moral ambiguity can make for great writing, there's always a line that has to be drawn when you're writing characters you're going to follow as the story goes. The problem is, we can't relate to these people, not even their pain. It comes off more like a revenge fantasy than a complex examination of the nature of prejudice and what it means to be a monster. It doesn't help that the some of the more universal Lovecraftian themes are left behind to instead fuel a narrative.

If Jordan Peele wanted to make a statement about what it takes to become a monster, then why did it look like he expected us to cheer over raping someone with a shoe when Ruby could at least just kill him there? But then again, it's not like Jordan Peele is known for logic and self-awareness (which is strange because he used to be pretty self-aware then).

In my experience of writing, if you want to make a cast of characters where pretty much every one of them are horrible people, give them flaws to make them human. It would make show at least 10% more interesting and less egregious to watch if you actually did that and not make a spite-fueled revenge fantasy.

I know from experience.

 

[Jarolleon]

Yep, sounds like this has nothing to do with Lovecraft at all. If we boil it down to its most essential themes, Lovecraft cosmic horror is about the insignificance of humans in he world. It's about how little our desires, knowledge, experiences, history, and overall value is compared to a greater universe.

So of course, let's make the experiences of early 20th century niggers center stage.

I think the idea was to reduce Lovecraft's themes into "LOLOL YTs scared of our powah" . That cosmic horror is not really about Man's place in the universe, but a racist's despair at the White Man's precarious place in the sun. The kind of ethno-narcissist reframing usually reserved for rap lyrics.

 

[Lurker Child]

I think the idea was to reduce Lovecraft's themes into "LOLOL YTs scared of our powah".

Implying that niggers are a cosmic horror come to Earth.
Oy vey...

Also I can't believe they missed the opportunity of having HP Lovecraft be saved by a Nigger Man. smh.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

So, another expensive revenge fic to piss an author whose views the writers don't approve of and has been dead for like ages?

EDIT: I didn't know this was done by Jordan Peele, can this nigger stop with the race grifting and the horror auteur shtick? He's the poster child of an entitled diversity hire who believes he's actually competent and a genius.

 

[Rick's Beef Wellington]

So, another expensive revenge fic to piss an author whose views the writers don't approve of and has been dead for like ages?

EDIT: I didn't know this was done by Jordan Peele, can this nigger stop with the race grifting and the horror auteur shtick? He's the poster child of an entitled diversity hire who believes he's actually competent and a genius.

Oh good, people are talking about this, I finally watched it a couple of weeks back. For all its spite and ire, it's also incredibly dull and I didn't get a real sense of any of the characters. There's some Grievance Porn that's at least fun to sit with, but Peele's stuff is just flat. Is he working out his issues with having a White mother and no father around with all this? Like he's White enough to know Lovecraft and Twilight Zone but not enough to love them?

 

[TVB]

Misha Green is a fucking hack of a nigger working in the Pedowood industry who should never touch any body of H.P. Lovecraft's work ever again.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

Funny thing, I read old reddit posts defending the show by saying "it's actually a show where there's no real good guy". While moral ambiguity can make for great writing, there's always a line that has to be drawn when you're writing characters you're going to follow as the story goes. The problem is, we can't relate to these people, not even their pain. It comes off more like a revenge fantasy than a complex examination of the nature of prejudice and what it means to be a monster. It doesn't help that the some of the more universal Lovecraftian themes are left behind to instead fuel a narrative.

If Jordan Peele wanted to make a statement about what it takes to become a monster, then why did it look like he expected us to cheer over raping someone with a shoe when Ruby could at least just kill him there? But then again, it's not like Jordan Peele is known for logic and self-awareness (which is strange because he used to be pretty self-aware then).

considering john majors i guess there's no real good guys in the cast irl

 

[CowPox]

Why do niggers insist on poisoning everything?

 

[bango skank]

I tried watching this when it aired, even though I knew it had nothing to do with Lovecraft and literally only used his name to stick it to whitey, but I had to turn it off when some nigger spat into another nigger’s asshole before he buttfucked him.