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

Lovecraft Country follows "Atticus Freeman as he joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback".
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So is it literally just using """Lovecraftian""" shit to say "racism bad" for the millionth time? Sounds like uninspired shit.
 
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Irrespective of the series as a whole, does anyone else end up feeling slightly ambivalent about Lovecraftian Horror in visual media (video games, tv/film etc.)? I feel sometimes that seeing things directly on screen can detract from a core tenet of the genre, namely that of unknowable, primordial horror.

On the flip side, I always enjoy the tropes (remote and foggy location, locals distrustful of outsiders, a big secret to be uncovered or a mystery to solve...). I also like sanity (or lack of it) being used as a game mechanic, and when things portrayed hit uncanny valley territory:

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It's made by Jordan Peele, who's entire thing is "I'm black so all the fiction I make is about black people."

which is fine. I mean people got told for years "if you want more representation in media go make it yourself"

so he is. That's fine. I don't have any problem with it. However a friend of mine is a giant lovecraft faggot and watched the first episode with me.

it apparently has nothing to do with Lovecraft at all aside from sometimes having a spooky monster here or there.
 
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JimiHendrix said:
It's made by Jordan Peele, who's entire thing is "I'm black so all the fiction I make is about black people."

which is fine. I mean people got told for years "if you want more representation in media go make it yourself"

so he is. That's fine. I don't have any problem with it. However a friend of mine is a giant lovecraft faggot and watched the first episode with me.

it apparently has nothing to do with Lovecraft at all aside from sometimes having a spooky monster here or there.
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Jordan Peele is a fucking hack. He makes Tyler Perry look like Orson Welles.
 
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Hellion said:
Irrespective of the series as a whole, does anyone else end up feeling slightly ambivalent about Lovecraftian Horror in visual media (video games, tv/film etc.)? I feel sometimes that seeing things directly on screen can detract from a core tenet of the genre, namely that of unknowable, primordial horror.
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The only time Lovecraftian Horror has been done well in videogames was Bloodborne which unashamedly borrowed from Lovecraft with the whole perceiving other planes of existence, dream-states, corrupt townships going bananas and 99% of the time the actual enemy are corrupted humans with big unseen gods pulling the strings. And the designs of actual great ones and their minions weren't just Cthulu clones.

It's a shame Del Toro's Mountains of Madness film will likely never see the light of day because movie producers will only ever greenlight films with marketable monsters that fill up the screen because who needs subtlety when it comes to cosmic horror am i right? people just want to see the big spooky monsters already! and by spooky monsters it's cthulu and will always be cthulu because brand recognition, even though he's a bit of a weenie in the elder god olympics.
 
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