Lovecraft Country [HBO]

JP Liz V1 · 10-10-2018 10:10pm #1

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Lovecraft Country

Jurnee Smollett-Bell To Star In HBO Series From Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams & Misha Green

http://deadline.com/2018/04/lovecraft-country-jurnee-smollett-bell-star-hbo-series-jordan-peele-j-j-abrams-misha-green-1202377558/

Michael Kenneth Williams has joined too

super_furry · 10-10-2018 10:11pm

Really enjoyed the book and it should be a fairly straight-forward job to translate it to TV.

Slydice · 01-05-2020 10:05pm

Well... :eek:

pixelburp · 02-05-2020 12:31pm

Lovecraft eh...

*watches trailer*

Huh. Big slobbering monster dogs eh. Not sure they've quite got the whole "Lovecraft" aspect down?

JP Liz V1 · 02-07-2020 11:41pm

Lovecraft Country will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV on Monday August 17th

Agent Coulson · 25-07-2020 10:47pm

S.M.B. · 07-08-2020 8:06pm

Early reviews are very positive.

JP Liz V1 · 17-08-2020 5:41pm

S.M.B. wrote: »

Early reviews are very positive.

I must watch tonight on Sky Atlantic

gmisk · 17-08-2020 6:14pm

Defo setting this to record tonight

cursai · 17-08-2020 8:01pm

Dull show. Preachy mess

Cina · 17-08-2020 8:55pm

Really enjoyable opener.

Looks like it's going down the Watchmen route with user reviews of "white man gets upset cause show highlights all the bad things white man did".

Unearthly · 17-08-2020 8:58pm

It was a bloody mental opening episode. Loved it.

[Deleted User] · 18-08-2020 12:54am

It really takes a turn towards the end. It's utterly insane but I'm loving it strangely.

gazzer · 18-08-2020 10:26am

Watched this last night and really enjoyed it. The ending was mental

Agent Coulson · 18-08-2020 5:08pm

Well that was god damn great and then last 20 minutes just made it.

Full_Circle_81 · 18-08-2020 5:46pm

I enjoyed that more than I thought I would, not having watched a single trailer or read the book.
The only thing I'll say is that I thought the effects in opening shot looked quite well (in an OTT pulpy on purpose kind of way), but then found the effects at the end quite ropey (to put it mildly).

RandomViewer · 18-08-2020 5:49pm

The actual racism was scarier than the many eyed monsters, why did the girl say kilometres when the sheriff was following them

Galwayguy35 · 18-08-2020 8:22pm

Not sure what to make of it yet, the monsters looked something like what was on the original Ghostbusters film nearly 40 years ago.

CastorTroy · 18-08-2020 9:32pm

Will keep watching as the only other thing I have on Mondays is Muppets.

Slydice · 18-08-2020 10:29pm

1: Solid episode getting across the setting. Plenty to do from here. The Princess at the start was done kinda cool.

The_Dave · 19-08-2020 12:03pm

Once I see JJ Abrams name linked it's an automatic no from me

Full_Circle_81 · 19-08-2020 12:31pm

The_Dave wrote: »

Once I see JJ Abrams name linked it's an automatic no from me

Its so funny, I went from being someone who got so excited whenever I saw his name attached to anything, to being super wary and sceptical. His name just screams "mystery-box" to me now and I usually fear straight away that the story is going to have a hugely unsatisfying ending with a mystery that never gets explained properly.

I guess with this, at least its based on a book, so I imagine that the story has more focus than the ones he is normally directly involved in.

Basq · 19-08-2020 12:33pm

Loved this...

.. having not read much about it.. the last 10 minutes were a curveball to say the least!

Basq · 22-08-2020 8:53am

Full first episode available on YT courtesy of HBO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za8PP4xLHdQ

[Deleted User] · 22-08-2020 9:45am

Basq wrote: »

Full first episode available on YT courtesy of HBO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za8PP4xLHdQ

That's a bit mad

Basq · 22-08-2020 9:54am

partyjungle wrote: »

That's a bit mad

They've done it before.. it'll just be the pilot uploaded I reckon.

steve_r · 22-08-2020 1:11pm

Think it's a great idea on their part. Give the show a massive boost to its profile, spread the word, get people talking. Let people have a taste of the type of shows that HBO have

AMKC · 23-08-2020 6:24pm

I had seen the adds for this and was not sure what expect from it never having read the book or books but I have to say when I watched it at first I was not sure but I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next episode tomorrow.