Here be monsters –
Jonathan Majors plays Atticus Black, who takes a road trip to find his missing father.
The series is based on the (dark fantasy / horror novel, Lovecraft Country , by Matt Ruff, who also found inspiration in a) (essay) by Pam Noles describing what it was like growing up being both black and, well, a hardcore nerd. The protagonist is Atticus Finch, a black veteran of the Korean War and science fiction fan who embarks on a perilous road trip from his home on Chicago’s South Side to a small town in rural Massachusetts. He’s looking for his estranged father, who purportedly vanished after encountering a well-dressed man driving a silver Cadillac.
Atticus’s Uncle George and childhood friend / fellow sci-fi buff, Leti, come along for the ride. This being inspired by Lovecraft, naturally they encounter all kinds of arcane rituals, magic, shape-shifters, monsters, and an alternate reality or two along the way.
Lovecraft Country takes place in the s Jim Crow era.
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