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

[AMHOLIO]

Ah great, it was even more painful than I expected. I'm assuming the mythos is an afterthough too considering nearly no monsters or lovecraftian characters appear in your summary as well as wikipedia's and tvtropes'. That's a shame and a half: they had some cool ideas like the second to last episode, but it's not really for dedicated lore fans of the Cthulhu Mythos. Seems like you could put any old monster mythos in it instead (like wizard vampires) and the effect would be similar. The only thing really related to Lovecraft is the shoggoths and a bit of the cult stuff, not a mention of the old ones or outer gods. It's a dark historical urban fantasy detective story that tries to use Lovecraft and pulp tropes to make a statement, but a lot of us fans are retarded and just want to see big squid, fish people, guys in yellow bathrobes, etc.. If I'm getting a sjw Lovecraft show, at least put big C or gnarly in it so I can see how weird they screw them up. Or Dagon and his kin.

There seems to be a bit of a mixed reaction to the season's end. NY Times has a piece pointing out that some of the stuff they did caused some unintentional racism and mishandling of historic events.

There's another article that claims the ending was flawed, but intentionally so in a 5d chess kind of way. I didn't care enough to read it.

Someone's take on the end:

You really have to do a lot to make shitty Lovecraftian magic not to lead back into evil IMO. The human sacrifices really don't help.

Shoutouts to this dude for making me chuckle:

 

[You]

I genuinely knew nothing about the show until seeing the first episode listed in torrent sites top 10 most recent lists, thought 'oh an HBO Lovecraft show? I'll give this a watch'. So I missed literally everything leading up to the show and the more I learn about it now the more of a gigantic fucking train wreck it is.

First, the show "has a Game of Thrones budget". This is important to keep in mind. (Source: When The A-Scene went to visit BlackHall Studios in October, CEO Ryan Milsap confirmed that the series had a “Game of Thrones budget” and was utilizing three sound stages at his facility.)

Second, they decided to give showrunner and head writer status to Misha Green, someone who had helmed a total of one show before, a shitty, low budget show on WGN (a station I'm sure almost no one else has even heard of) that was both unwatched and had so many production problems that the show went through six different production companies before WGN was finally bought out by another company that cancelled it. This was of course met with cries of racism that a strong black show would be cancelled by an evil whitey TV company and certainly had nothing to do with the show premiering to low ratings and then losing over half of that already low amount by season 2's end. Misha Green's only other writing credits are as a lowly staff writer on Heroes and Sons of Anarchy, possibly two of the worst written shows ever.

Third, Jussie Smollett's sister has proclaimed that anything short of a season 2 would be HBO "doing folks so wrong". I'm sure this has nothing to do with her now being the series' main actor now that black Jesus is gone. (https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/lovecraft-country-season-2-renewed-canceled)

Fourth, and related to the previous link, remember how I said it was important to remember that the show had "a Game of Thrones budget"? That seems to be completely memory holed by every woke media article I've found. They're now heavily implying or outright bending or breaking facts to start painting the narrative that its cancellation would be obvious racism.

From the previous link, as an example of it-

"Smollett said on a recent episode of Deadline's New Hollywood podcast. "But listen, it’s not up to me. It’s up to the suits." So what do the "suits" — in this case, HBO executives — think?

That remains to be seen, but shows are typically renewed mainly on the strength of their ratings. And the good news for fans is that Lovecraft Country has had fairly strong numbers. Per TV Series Finale, the first nine episodes have averaged 0.25 in the key 18-49 age demographic and 0.726 million viewers per episode. Those numbers are considerably stronger than the first season of HBO's His Dark Materials, another high-profile fantasy series that was based on a book. That show put up a 0.10 in the aforementioned demo and averaged just 0.423 million viewers per episode — and it was just granted a second season. So if HBO renewed His Dark Materials based on lower ratings, there's no reason to think they won't bring back Lovecraft Country."

First, nice dog whistling by Smollett's sister, first proclaiming that HBO not renewing it is "doing people wrong" but then derisively referring to them as 'suits' to make further cement the Us vs Them.

Followed by a report that a 0.25 in the 18-49 demo is "fairly strong" (it's not). Then they do an apples to oranges comparison between Lovecraft Country and His Dark Materials. For starters, His Dark Materials has nowhere near the budget of Lovecraft Country. Second, His Dark Materials isn't even a fucking HBO show, it's made for and by BBC One. HBO is only buying the rights to play it in America, where BBC One has global rights.

Now, in closing, what this means is that we have a show on a Game of Thrones budget, although we don't know which season's budget they're comparing it to, so we'll go with GoT's cheapest season which also had the lowest viewers: season 1 which averaged 2.5m viewers. That's the same budget for 1/4 the viewers as GoT. If we want to compare it to GoT season 4, it's 1/12th the viewers. For season 8? 1/20th.

But, again, the only possible reason for the show getting cancelled would be racism.

 

[SmugAutist]

Just found out that this was a thing. Am I correct in assuming that they use the Lovecraft name to sucker in some unsuspecting viewers that might be interested in watching some cosmic horror only to find out that it's some bullshit that has little or nothing to do with Lovecraft and, if it does have Lovecraftian elements, shits all over them for the purposes of virtue signalling?

I've been suckerd too many times into playing Lovecraft videogames.

 

[Troonologist PhD]

Just found out that this was a thing. Am I correct in assuming that they use the Lovecraft name to sucker in some unsuspecting viewers that might be interested in watching some cosmic horror only to find out that it's some bullshit that has little or nothing to do with Lovecraft and, if it does have Lovecraftian elements, shits all over them for the purposes of virtue signalling?

I've been suckerd too many times into playing Lovecraft videogames.

From everything I’ve read you’re exactly right. I just looked at it and knew it was going to be Woke niggatry. What Lovecraft games turned out to be garbage?

I was hoping it would be Nyarlothotep fucking with everyone but that wouldn’t be very empowering. It’s hilarious that the show portrays black people having magic as a good thing when Lovecraftian magic involves worship of evil gods, human sacrifice, torture, cannibalism, inhuman tongues, and various other disgusting, maddening practices. In other words they’re acting like Africans.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Just found out that this was a thing. Am I correct in assuming that they use the Lovecraft name to sucker in some unsuspecting viewers that might be interested in watching some cosmic horror only to find out that it's some bullshit that has little or nothing to do with Lovecraft and, if it does have Lovecraftian elements, shits all over them for the purposes of virtue signalling?

I've been suckerd too many times into playing Lovecraft videogames.

It's a 2016 book adaptation, I found out about it later too, here's the opening wiki paragraph: Lovecraft Country is a 2016 dark fantasy horror novel by Matt Ruff, exploring the conjunction between the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and racism in the United States during the era of Jim Crow laws, as experienced by Black science-fiction fan Atticus Turner and his family.

And my favorite line: that the book's "most unsettling" aspect is the constant bigotry experienced by the characters.

 

[haha fune sex numbr]

Lovecraft at his worst was still miles ahead of the dummies that wrote this show/book, holy balls.

Alright, so, the main villain of the show is a white woman named Christina that, throughout the story, has saved, revived, or otherwise aided the black characters at some point. But, she's totally the bad guy and you'll see why. Her goal is to cast a spell on herself, which requires her to sacrifice one of the black characters, specifically Tic (the MC). She does not kidnap him, or hold anyone hostage or force him to cooperate in any way. She actually protects him, and in exchange for her aid resolving an problem that she did not create he agrees to be sacrificed. Cool.

So, the Tic and his team immediately start coming up with ways to undermine her. They have a book of spells that can help them basically counter Christina's spell, but Christina finds out and points out that with the book she can find an alternate way of casting her spell that doesn't require Tic to die. The heroes refuse to give her the book. One of the heroes, Leti (whom Christina BROUGHT BACK FROM THE DEAD) attempts convince her sister, Ruby (whom Christina is romantically involved with and trusts enough to let her just hang out in her secret magic lab and share her magical secrets with) to betray Christina as part of their plan. Ruby has no reason to do this, Christina has done more to make Ruby happy in a few weeks than Leti has all her life. Like, Ruby shouldn't even consider this.

After listening to Christina lament needing to sacrifice Tic, Ruby attempts betrayal and is caught. Christina then uses Ruby's body to cast an illusion spell of sorts and basically fucks up the heroes plan to prevent her from sacrificing that guy that agreed to be sacrificed. Leti dies after trying to stop Christina with punching. Despite them all being assholes, Christina does not kill any of the heroes intentionally and begins the ritual.

Prior to refusing to hand over the book, Christina was using magic to protect Leti, she removed the spell when they all refused to cooperate. Suddenly, Leti's corpse springs back to life, protected by Christina's spell. Uh, something something magic? Anyways, Leti reaches the site of the ritual just in time to see it completed, spell is cast and Tic is basically dead. In rage, Leti stabs Christina with a knife, but the spell makes her immortal so no worries. Now would be a reasonable time for Christina to kill Leti, given the aggression directed at her, but its not necessary. Christina doesn't do "unnecessary" murder, just like a bad guy! Then Leti, that lady Christina brought back from the dead once and then just spared, starts casting a spell. Again, Christina doesn't think it necessary to stop her, she's protected by her own magic, unnecessary deaths are to be avoided what an evil cunt. Then suddenly, a character that Tic treated like absolute dog shit until like this episode sacrifices herself in order to make Leti's spell work. KABOOM!

Christina finds herself under some rubble, no longer magically protected. Leti smugly saunters up to her, and explains that, heh, nothing personal kid, but I used a spell to prevent all white people from using magic. This would be a cool time for a Hero to recognize that Christina no longer poses a threat, might even be paralyzed below the waist, so we should spare her. Kidding, sparing the lives of people like that is actually a villain move, Christina's been doing that the whole time and she's a villain remember? Leti leaves her to die. Ah, but then Dee shows up, a girl that Christina had helped save. Admittedly, she helped save Dee in exchange for something, but there was also no need for her to do that, she literally could have just taken what she wanted and no one could have stopped her. Christina then begs for help and Dee is like "sure." Again, kidding, she crushes her neck with a robot arm. Because she was the villain, remember?

This show does only two things well, it offers insight into the sort of minds behind its creation and it highlights why the real Lovecraft will never be overshadowed.
Edit: Sorry for effortposting

 

[Secret Asshole]

Ah great, it was even more painful than I expected. I'm assuming the mythos is an afterthough too considering nearly no monsters or lovecraftian characters appear in your summary as well as wikipedia's and tvtropes'. That's a shame and a half: they had some cool ideas like the second to last episode, but it's not really for dedicated lore fans of the Cthulhu Mythos. Seems like you could put any old monster mythos in it instead (like wizard vampires) and the effect would be similar. The only thing really related to Lovecraft is the shoggoths and a bit of the cult stuff, not a mention of the old ones or outer gods. It's a dark historical urban fantasy detective story that tries to use Lovecraft and pulp tropes to make a statement, but a lot of us fans are retarded and just want to see big squid, fish people, guys in yellow bathrobes, etc.. If I'm getting a sjw Lovecraft show, at least put big C or gnarly in it so I can see how weird they screw them up. Or Dagon and his kin.

There seems to be a bit of a mixed reaction to the season's end. NY Times has a piece pointing out that some of the stuff they did caused some unintentional racism and mishandling of historic events.
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There's another article that claims the ending was flawed, but intentionally so in a 5d chess kind of way. I didn't care enough to read it.

Someone's take on the end:
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You really have to do a lot to make shitty Lovecraftian magic not to lead back into evil IMO. The human sacrifices really don't help.

Shoutouts to this dude for making me chuckle:
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This is so fucking retardedly stupid. In Lovecraft, simply KNOWING about the Elder Gods is enough to drive you insane. Forget about casting fucking MAGIC. It drives you absolutely batshit. It falls under things you should not know. Lovecraft magic should be used sparingly and isn't like modern magical thought at all. Its something you don't touch unless you want to meet a horrible ending or have that baby be born a serial killer or some horrific creature that eats its way out of your body. Jesus Christ.

Just fucking imagine a show going: "NO MAGIC FOR NIGGERS" in 2020. Good fucking christ, people's heads would explode. So why is this racist fucking trash being peddled? God I hope this stupid cunt drains HBO's budget and is like a fucking vampire on them, just constantly taking while no one watches her trash.

Best Lovecraft on HBO is still Season 1 True Detective.

But, again, the only possible reason for the show getting cancelled would be racism.

Of course this got shit ratings. Just like Watchmen did and it was shit canned faster than you can say 'DAS RIGHT'. But honestly I have no problem about HBO getting milked outof money.

From everything I’ve read you’re exactly right. I just looked at it and knew it was going to be Woke niggatry. What Lovecraft games turned out to be garbage?

I was hoping it would be Nyarlothotep fucking with everyone but that wouldn’t be very empowering. It’s hilarious that the show portrays black people having magic as a good thing when Lovecraftian magic involves worship of evil gods, human sacrifice, torture, cannibalism, inhuman tongues, and various other disgusting, maddening practices. In other words they’re acting like Africans.

That would have been the best. I mean the best horror ending would have just been like the whole fucking ending is this dumb bitch's power fantasy day dream, and for meddling with magic its revealed she's just clawing her eyes out screaming. But then again, nobody does horror right anymore.

>Pure Dogshit

Holy shit, this is pure trash.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Autistim incoming, but what are the chances she's named Christina to stick it to them damn dirty conservatives? Probably just picked a genderflipped version of the main villain of the book, but wouldn't put it past Hollywood hacks to do so.

This is so fucking retardedly stupid. In Lovecraft, simply KNOWING about the Elder Gods is enough to drive you insane. Forget about casting fucking MAGIC. It drives you absolutely batshit. It falls under things you should not know.

Ha ha ha, but Secret Asshole, don't you know? Black people living in consistent fear for their lives in the 1950s means they can recover from anything!

This isn't how fear works for both mythos writing and real life, I think. A familiar danger can condition you to be more hardened about stuff, but maybe a completely alien force of nature triggers a different fear button in the human monkey brain. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Speaking of fear, did it even have any spooky moments? Aside from brutal racism. That's uncomfortable, but not horrifying enough for the most part.

 

[haha fune sex numbr]

Speaking of fear, did it even have any spooky moments? Aside from brutal racism. That's uncomfortable, but not horrifying enough for the most part.

The best/only horror is in the first episodes, a couple later episodes feature lame ghost shit. IIRC, one of the writers/creators mentioned they were not adapting the book because they wanted to use Lovecraftian monsters and such, but because they wanted to bury the Lovecraft name and only have people think or know about this dogshit show.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Christina finds herself under some rubble, no longer magically protected. Leti smugly saunters up to her, and explains that, heh, nothing personal kid, but I used a spell to prevent all white people from using magic.

I've heard of the "magical negro" trope, but this is ridiculous.

In all seriousness, this sounds like a subpar Charmed/Buffy-type resolution, with magic just being a thing that anyone can fuck around with and do whatever the plot needs it to. If you need a Lovecraft-type show, and need the characters to use magic for whatever reason, you need to make it hurt. The supernatural is vast and unknowable and the only parts that aren't apathetic towards humanity are the parts that are actively hostile to it. How is it that a fucking anime adaptation of a harem light novel managed to capture the spirit of the source material better than an allegedly serious show with a Game of Thrones (any season) budget?

As far as the conclusion goes, Leti just had her Magneto origin story: she's let her hatred and fear drive her to become the thing she hates. Of course, Jordan Peele apparently has morality more akin to MovieBob than Chris Claremont, and considers that a good thing.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Autistim incoming, but what are the chances she's named Christina to stick it to them damn dirty conservatives? Probably just picked a genderflipped version of the main villain of the book, but wouldn't put it past Hollywood hacks to do so.

Ha ha ha, but Secret Asshole, don't you know? Black people living in consistent fear for their lives in the 1950s means they can recover from anything!
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This isn't how fear works for both mythos writing and real life, I think. A familiar danger can condition you to be more hardened about stuff, but maybe a completely alien force of nature triggers a different fear button in the human monkey brain. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Speaking of fear, did it even have any spooky moments? Aside from brutal racism. That's uncomfortable, but not horrifying enough for the most part.

Hahaha, this is the hardest fucking COPE I've ever fucking heard. TVTropes is such pure fucking garbage it never ceases to amaze me. But this show is basically pulp trash, not real horror. It is basically black people anime. And as expected, its pure garbage. Like Madea Goes to Lovecraft Country would probably be more accurate to the source material, entertaining and scarier than this pile of absolute dogshit. Fuck it, fire everyone involved and give Tyler Perry the whole fucking thing.

You're not. Racism is something familiar and expected. A cosmic horror that doesn't give a shit about you, doesn't think in any way that you are familiar with and is possibly signaling the end of everything and there's precious little you can do about it...yeah, that is what we call 'mind breaking'. Its basically discovering Satan exists, except its another dimension and he will devour your immortal soul. Its a bit fucking worse than 'cops' or 'people R THE TRU MONSTARS' (knock it off with that puerile fucking garbage. Its not smart. Its not entertaining. It has been beaten to fucking death. Not to mention that isn't the theme of Lovecraft. Lovecraft is humanity doesn't matter).

It has nothing to do with danger. It has to do with figuring every belief system you've ever held dear and the physical properties of the universe are wrong and you don't know why. You are staring down a literal fucking God. Basically, it isn't fear. It is completely mind-breaking lack of understanding. Like for one of the biggest stars in the universe it would take 8 years to fly around it with the fastest aircraft we have. Its hard to comprehend something like that. But now that thing is right in front of your face.

To have them UNAFFECTED after seeing this shit constantly is just a joke. It should have been an anthology series or a slow burn horror series but with the....'talent' they used for this it is pretty much out of their depth. They're completely incompetent.

The best/only horror is in the first episodes, a couple later episodes feature lame ghost shit. IIRC, one of the writers/creators mentioned they were not adapting the book because they wanted to use Lovecraftian monsters and such, but because they wanted to bury the Lovecraft name and only have people think or know about this dogshit show.

I was reading the synopsis of the book and it was pretty eye-rolling as I expected it to be. It didn't sound scary, it just sounded like someone wanted to write a novel about racism with 'RACISM IS THE REAL SCARY' like, fucking do one or the other? And if you think that way with Lovecraft, you're just manipulating people into buying it for Lovecraft. Its fucking disingenuous. Cosmic horror is the horror that humanity doesn't matter. Read HUMANITY. If anything, it'd cure people of their racism because we are all nothing in the shadow of Azathoth, the blind idiot God. But nah, go with the predictable theme that I could spot when you told me the fucking synopsis.

Racism is bad and scarier because its real? Holy shit, what a ground break...*snore* Amazing concept. I really don't get 'RACISM BAD AND HORRIFYING' pushed in my face every fucking day. Really. Tell me about how super scary racism is in fiction too. Sorry, but I think cosmic horrors and cultists who want to eat me, rape me and wear my skin are more horrifying.

Also, they didn't even adapt the fucking book anyway. Why the fuck are you licensing a book but not even bothering to fucking adapt it? What's the fucking point? Not to mention it kind of read like a 'reboot' of the book anyway. As if they wanted to write something on their own but were too fucking unoriginal to do it themselves. I mean, author got paid, but still it has to suck to see some hacks fuck with your characters and not even adapt the fucking thing you wrote. That's annoying. And it will probably fucking never be adapted because the ratings are trash.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Someone's take on the end:

You really have to do a lot to make shitty Lovecraftian magic not to lead back into evil IMO. The human sacrifices really don't help.

Shoutouts to this dude for making me chuckle:

so how long before black people try to fuse Cthulu mythos with their Kang shit and create the Negronomicon?

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

the real horror was niggers all along

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

I know this is a narcissistic autist's interpretation of some other fucking retard's meta-fanfiction that tries to shit on H.P. Lovecraft's works but being a petty dabbler on cosmic horror, let me just try to decrypt this shit:

Christina finds herself under some rubble, no longer magically protected. Leti smugly saunters up to her, and explains that, heh, nothing personal kid, but I used a spell to prevent all white people from using magic.

This one line. This one fucking line is bloody hysterical for anyone that has even brushed past by anything Lovecraft-lite, much less any material written by the Circle, or the man himself.

Not only is this an instance of the magical negro tropes, this is the illogical extreme conclusion. "I did a spell so an entire race is banned from magic lol".

This is the kind of thing first graders say playing on the schoolyard. "My shield is strong, times infinity!" "But mine is stronger times beyond infinity, so there!" And before you know, there's a fist fight 'cause one called the other a nigger that didn't know how to play.

so how long before black people try to fuse Cthulu mythos with their Kang shit and create the Negronomicon?

Niggers appropiating an Arab's work? Wouldn't surprise me.

Hahaha, this is the hardest fucking COPE I've ever fucking heard. TVTropes is such pure fucking garbage it never ceases to amaze me. But this show is basically pulp trash, not real horror. It is basically black people anime. And as expected, its pure garbage. Like Madea Goes to Lovecraft Country would probably be more accurate to the source material, entertaining and scarier than this pile of absolute dogshit. Fuck it, fire everyone involved and give Tyler Perry the whole fucking thing.

You're not. Racism is something familiar and expected. A cosmic horror that doesn't give a shit about you, doesn't think in any way that you are familiar with and is possibly signaling the end of everything and there's precious little you can do about it...yeah, that is what we call 'mind breaking'. Its basically discovering Satan exists, except its another dimension and he will devour your immortal soul. Its a bit fucking worse than 'cops' or 'people R THE TRU MONSTARS' (knock it off with that puerile fucking garbage. Its not smart. Its not entertaining. It has been beaten to fucking death. Not to mention that isn't the theme of Lovecraft. Lovecraft is humanity doesn't matter).

It has nothing to do with danger. It has to do with figuring every belief system you've ever held dear and the physical properties of the universe are wrong and you don't know why. You are staring down a literal fucking God. Basically, it isn't fear. It is completely mind-breaking lack of understanding. Like for one of the biggest stars in the universe it would take 8 years to fly around it with the fastest aircraft we have. Its hard to comprehend something like that. But now that thing is right in front of your face.

To have them UNAFFECTED after seeing this shit constantly is just a joke. It should have been an anthology series or a slow burn horror series but with the....'talent' they used for this it is pretty much out of their depth. They're completely incompetent.

I was reading the synopsis of the book and it was pretty eye-rolling as I expected it to be. It didn't sound scary, it just sounded like someone wanted to write a novel about racism with 'RACISM IS THE REAL SCARY' like, fucking do one or the other? And if you think that way with Lovecraft, you're just manipulating people into buying it for Lovecraft. Its fucking disingenuous. Cosmic horror is the horror that humanity doesn't matter. Read HUMANITY. If anything, it'd cure people of their racism because we are all nothing in the shadow of Azathoth, the blind idiot God. But nah, go with the predictable theme that I could spot when you told me the fucking synopsis.

Racism is bad and scarier because its real? Holy shit, what a ground break...*snore* Amazing concept. I really don't get 'RACISM BAD AND HORRIFYING' pushed in my face every fucking day. Really. Tell me about how super scary racism is in fiction too. Sorry, but I think cosmic horrors and cultists who want to eat me, rape me and wear my skin are more horrifying.

Also, they didn't even adapt the fucking book anyway. Why the fuck are you licensing a book but not even bothering to fucking adapt it? What's the fucking point? Not to mention it kind of read like a 'reboot' of the book anyway. As if they wanted to write something on their own but were too fucking unoriginal to do it themselves. I mean, author got paid, but still it has to suck to see some hacks fuck with your characters and not even adapt the fucking thing you wrote. That's annoying. And it will probably fucking never be adapted because the ratings are trash.

It's really noticeable these people are way out of their depth. The likes of Eihort, Y'golonac, the color out of space... they insist that such insignificant garbage is "the real horror" because their pea-brain would shut off the very second they stumble onto something that simply doesn't care about their bullshit, much less consider humanity meaningless.

ETA: Speaking of, do check out the Nic Cage "Color out of Space" film, if you want a glimpse into what an actual adaptation of H.P's work should be.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

My two cents: I thought is was a pretty fun anthology show, playing with different genres. The story arc ended up pretty retarded though, and the tenuous Lovecraft link I blame on the source novel. As a non-burgerlander, the race issues weren't that much of a big deal for me.

If anyone is feeling a need for Lovecraft adaptations, I'd like to shill a radio series that loosely adapts The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Whisperer in Darkness, with The Shadow Over Innsmouth coming up soon: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w
It's quite 'Lovecraft Mythos'-lite, throws in Nazi occultists (yay), and has pretty high production values, and as it's radio, the pictures are better. There is no Lovecraft bashing that I can remember.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I don’t think I’ve seen anybody mention, Lovecraft Country is the name of a TV Trope that has been around way longer than this show, and is a really awkward name for an area.

Did these guys take the trope name for their show name? Hella gay if they did.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

I don’t think I’ve seen anybody mention, Lovecraft Country is the name of a TV Trope that has been around way longer than this show, and is a really awkward name for an area.

Did these guys take the trope name for their show name? Hella gay if they did.

I remember Chaosium using 'Lovecraft Country' as an umbrella term for their CoC sourcebooks about Lovecraft's fictional locations, e.g. Dunwich, Innsmouth and Arkham.

 

[SmugAutist]

It's a 2016 book adaptation, I found out about it later too, here's the opening wiki paragraph: Lovecraft Country is a 2016 dark fantasy horror novel by Matt Ruff, exploring the conjunction between the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and racism in the United States during the era of Jim Crow laws, as experienced by Black science-fiction fan Atticus Turner and his family.

And my favorite line: that the book's "most unsettling" aspect is the constant bigotry experienced by the characters.

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.

 

[anti SJW]

I want someone to do a proper Old Man Henderson adaptation.

 

[Maurice Caine]

Literally, just watch The Whisperer in Darkness this Halloween and forget about this.