Ep. 26 - Lovecraft Country
Spooky season is here so it is time to get cozy and watch some spooky shows with your two best friends Presley and Andrew. Will the Lovecraftian horrors and Jim Crow scare you as much as they scare us? Listen now to find out!
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Lovecraft Country was an HBO Max original series that aired back in 2020. The story follows Atticus Freeman (Johnathan Majors) after his return home from the Korean War in the 1950s. Living in Jim Crow-era Chicago, Atticus comes back to address a letter he received from his estranged father. Together with his Uncle, George Freeman (Courtney B. Vance), and a former school friend, Letitia (Leti) Lewis (Jurnee Smollett) travel to Lovecraft Country aka Ardham, Mass. Following an attack by white citizens and Lovecraftian monsters, the three arrive at a massive home owned by the Braithwhite family. Atticus learns that he is the sole ere to the Braithewhite family who were magicians attempting to enter the Garden of Eden which caused the destruction of their whole temple. As the trio find Atticus’s father they escape, but George is shot and killed. Returning to Chicago, Atticus, and Leti try to piece together the events of the manor and figure out what Christina Braithwhite (Abbey Lee) is trying to do after she re-surfaces in their lives. Over the course of the series there are various attacks by other white community members, magicians, ghosts, and monsters. Going on a quest Atticus and Leti recover the book of names where they learn the ways of magic to stop Christina from becoming immortal and killing Atticus on the Autumnal Equinox. Through deceit, Christina discovers this plan and is partially successful in her attempt, but with the help of the team Atticus and Leti have formed, Christina is thwarted in her immortality, and all magic is removed from white people for the rest of time. Atticus dies in the end and we are left with Leti and her unborn child returning to their lives in Chicago.