Official Lovecraft Country Thread

[Bryan Danielson]

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY: PHOTOGRAPHY TO VIDEO

DEPARTMENT STORE: Mobile - Alabama (1956), by Gordon Parks

UNTITLED: Shady Grove - Alabama (1956), by Gordon Parks

THE LOUISVILLE FLOOD: Louisville - Kentucky (1937), by Margaret Bourke-White

That’s dope!

Talk about doing your homework

 

[hex]

The ironic thing about this flaw though is that it mirrors the flaw of much of Lovecraft's writing. The human elements of his work were often interesting. The foreboding, the tension, the inner turmoil and horror. But often the actual big reveals were just...not good. And doing this as a TV show makes it harder because the entire point of cosmic horror is seeing something the human brain cannot comprehend, to the point you go mad. But here we see pretty typical, boring CGI monsters and it's just like eh...

I disagree with pretty much all of this.

Lovecraft was absolutely garbage at writing characters. Which is fine because the whole point of cosmic horror is how inconsequential humans are. But the human element for him was basically "teen in an 80's slasher flick on stand by until Jason kills them" status. Characters would exist until it was time for them to die/lose their mind/suffer a similarly horrible fate, etc. In damn near all his writing, especially the Mythos stuff. We barely get to know any character from "The Call Of Cthulhu", "At The Mountains Of Madness", etc.

On the other hand, his big reveals were A+. From "The Outsider" to "Pickman's Model". His writing is pretty much 45% atmosphere, 45% reveal, and 10% character.

As far as the bolded....not really. Seeing run of the mill creatures like shoggoths doesn't have that effect. Seeing Elder Gods or any of the god-like/extra-dimensional entities would do it, though. And none of those were seen in the first ep. Dream sequence aside.

Fred.

 

[FlyRy]

Was this the best first EP to start a series?

I loved Watchmen but the first EP didn't take me like this one did.

TV didn't start last year breh

 

[Morethan1]

HBO did it again

I'm a big fan of j.j.

I'm in

 

[No Sleep]

TV didn't start last year breh

Oh shyt really!!!

For you I’ll clarify. For a “HBO series”.

 

[DlAMONDZ]

HBO with another W

 

[THE MACHINE]

HBO did it again

I'm a big fan of j.j.

I'm in

Cant lie, seeing that lil "Bad Robot" at the end of the episode took me back to the LOST days At least the first 3 1/2-4 seasons of LOST. I just cant accept what it turned into after that.

JJ still my guy though. Peele too.

 

[nieman]

Cant lie, seeing that lil "Bad Robot" at the end of the episode took me back to the LOST days At least the first 3 1/2-4 seasons of LOST. I just cant accept what it turned into after that.

JJ still my guy though. Peele too.

ALIAS was my Bad Robot ish

 

[Lord-Yosh]

They got a hit on their hands

 

[jackswstd]

Most new shows don’t get me in the first season but I’m interested to see where this goes. Gotta peep the first episode again before episode 2.

 

[The axe murderer]

She put them soles to the ground

 

[I AM WE ARE]

I can't lie it took awhile to develop and I almost turned it off when I saw dude getting head in the alley but y'all reviews made me continue

 

[TheDarkskinnedDrake]

I’m intrigued after Ep 1

 

[daemonova]

2162: N#gga Senses Tingling

If you like rod's game of thrones recap, he's back at it

You can hate rod like I do and listen to his recaps

 

[Yaddam Yussein]

Will the whole episode be available on hbo max @ 9pm?
Or do you have to use HBO Now to watch the premiere?