Lovecraft Country - HBO series Official Thread - Premieres August

NightMare Paint

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Think about all the Black folks who are learning about the Dahomey Amazons for the first time from watching this episode. Seeing Bessie Stringfield depicted in popular media. Hearing Sun-Ra provide the soundtrack for an Afrofuturistic fantasy sequence. I had no idea what to expect from this show but damn. This is on another level.
 

godofwine

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Is anyone else failing to see how the gay shit affects the story at all in Lovecraft country? How does it move the story forward?

Now, if Uncle George had an affair with Montrose' wife and is really atticus's father because Montrose was secretly gay the whole fucking time and not fucking his wife and that was the way they kept it under wraps

THAT would make sense them inundating us with all this fucking gay shit. Outside of that I see no fucking purpose to it whatsoever. Is anyone else with me?
 

godofwine

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Think about all the Black folks who are learning about the Dahomey Amazons for the first time from watching this episode. Seeing Bessie Stringfield depicted in popular media. Hearing Sun-Ra provide the soundtrack for an Afrofuturistic fantasy sequence. I had no idea what to expect from this show but damn. This is on another level.
I knew nothing of Bessie Stringfield or the Dahomey Amazons. Both were news to me. I had no idea what they were referencing with either sequence

Were the Dahomey Amazons what the Dora milaje from Black Panther derived from?
 

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Is anyone else failing to see how the gay shit affects the story at all in Lovecraft country? How does it move the story forward?

Now, if Uncle George had an affair with Montrose' wife and is really atticus's father because Montrose was secretly gay the whole fucking time and not fucking his wife and that was the way they kept it under wraps

THAT would make sense them inundating us with all this fucking gay shit. Outside of that I see no fucking purpose to it whatsoever. Is anyone else with me?
Thank you I was asking the same thing
 

slewdem100

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Think about all the Black folks who are learning about the Dahomey Amazons for the first time from watching this episode. Seeing Bessie Stringfield depicted in popular media. Hearing Sun-Ra provide the soundtrack for an Afrofuturistic fantasy sequence. I had no idea what to expect from this show but damn. This is on another level.
Thanks for explaining what I was seeing....seems like one of those shows where you got to study each episode...lots of knowledge being dropped
 

slewdem100

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Is anyone else failing to see how the gay shit affects the story at all in Lovecraft country? How does it move the story forward?

Now, if Uncle George had an affair with Montrose' wife and is really atticus's father because Montrose was secretly gay the whole fucking time and not fucking his wife and that was the way they kept it under wraps

THAT would make sense them inundating us with all this fucking gay shit. Outside of that I see no fucking purpose to it whatsoever. Is anyone else with me?
Gay shit kinda explains the tensions between father and son...the drag show and all that other shit a couple episodes back was gratuitous and agenda driven bullshit but there is somewhat of a dramatic tie in with the pops being gay....also your theory about Uncle George could be the point of it...just doesnt need to be made one of the focal points of the joint
 

NightMare Paint

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I feel like y'all will get a whole lot more out of the show once you stop contextualizing every frame of every gay scene as an invitation to buttrape. Yet again y'all brothas get stuck on 30 seconds of 2 niggas cohabitating and missed the larger context of the episode portraying how grand and proliferate Black people could be, SHOULD be, were it not for outside factors causing us to reduce ourselves into something more "acceptable". That's a specific message I can honestly say I've never heard directed towards Black folks. I believe that's why in this episode they had Hippolyta engage and interact with figures who went beyond their conventional places in society to achieve noteworthiness.

Every week it's ENTIRELY WAY TOO FUCKING MANY hot takes about some agenda to make niggas gay over the airwaves while the many messages of empowerment through intelligence and education are barely acknowledged if at all. The characters are flawed but unfathomably brilliant people. The story only progresses through the discernment, deductive reasoning and sheer ingenuity of it's Black characters. When before have we had anything like this?
 

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Is anyone else failing to see how the gay shit affects the story at all in Lovecraft country? How does it move the story forward?

Now, if Uncle George had an affair with Montrose' wife and is really atticus's father because Montrose was secretly gay the whole fucking time and not fucking his wife and that was the way they kept it under wraps

THAT would make sense them inundating us with all this fucking gay shit. Outside of that I see no fucking purpose to it whatsoever. Is anyone else with me?

Honestly you're so fixated on that, it raises questions.

Montrose was on screen for about 4 minutes
There was nothing sexual happening
The rest was the best afro futurism we've ever seen
But your focus was on the fact that he gay and his son found out he was gay?

To answer your question about the most obscure part of the show that has bothered you so much


Tic finding out made him face the fact his father beat him and abused him because he hated himself not to make tic stronger . He made his son suffer for years to teach him how to be a man instead of just loving his own self and not taking his issues out on his kid. It fucked tic up completely.

THAT REALIZATION will drive tic on a journey to completely find out about his mother's side and question his father about everything which will reveal the george angle
 

LordSinister

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Was I the only one trying to find those coordinates on the model?

I tried long and lat, right acention and declination. The only thing I could see is a spot in the midwest if -95.159492 is that degree west. 39.805499 would be the number for north looks like a place outside of Kansas city near Lawrence
 

HAR125LEM

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Misha Green...

She is the actual showrunner and person making the decisions on the show that you see.

Green is probably the main reason why "LOVECRAFT COUTNRY" has deviated so far away from the source material.
Show is just coming off as desperate symbolism to me now.
So I'm just watching it as a formality as I said in another post.

It's Green incorporating personal agendas of her own into the series.
Putting "current" themes in the show.
And it's just not working for me.
I don't mind the Gay and Black Girl Magic stuff.
But those were not entirely the focus of that book.
If at all.
Especially those Gay "experiences".
Which, to my recollection were not in the book.
Among other things.

"WATCHMEN" deviated from its source.
But at the same time, respected it by telling a new future, adjacent storyline.
And it worked.

"LOVECRAFT COUNTRY"?
Nah.

Though I did love "MEET ME IN DAEGU". Because it focused on Atticus' time in The Korean War.
Though minor in the book, it's was creatively done.
Something "M.A.S.H." never did in regards to Black Soldiers truly stationed there.
That's why I couldn't stand that show (or the film for that matter).
 

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Dr. Truth

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Just bring back Jaimie Chung or have Smolett get naked again so I have a reason to watch otherwise this shit fails. It’s all over the place and makes no sense at all, which saddens me since the cast is Mostly Black and gives us jobs.
 

playahaitian

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Sorry i UNDERSTAND the issues most have with the show

Yeah

They eyes way bigger then their mouths

AND bellies

But i am happy as f*ck we finally get an OPPORTUNITY to do this

On THIS LEVEL

The budget the effects the acting...

Black folk LOOK beautiful

They 3 dimensional layered complicated difficult

Again it aint perfect far from but man i love the effort.
 

godofwine

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Actually he's wrong about a couple of things. One being that the public didn't know about military atrocities until Vietnam, the other being that a Black man or any other man would go to jail for not following an illegal order. No one, unless you're Jack Nicholson is going to go to court to testify that they gave someone an illegal order.
The military looks at disobeying direct orders in wartime is cause to get you fucked up and rarely is there someone there to go to.

Its fucked up. I've been in fucked up situations and have been told about fucked up situations. It sucks, but you either do it and face your conscience or don't do it and face the consequences

There are no other options
Wasn't ready for her

Not familiar with this at all
Honestly you're so fixated on that, it raises questions.

Montrose was on screen for about 4 minutes
There was nothing sexual happening
The rest was the best afro futurism we've ever seen
But your focus was on the fact that he gay and his son found out he was gay?

To answer your question about the most obscure part of the show that has bothered you so much


Tic finding out made him face the fact his father beat him and abused him because he hated himself not to make tic stronger . He made his son suffer for years to teach him how to be a man instead of just loving his own self and not taking his issues out on his kid. It fucked tic up completely.

THAT REALIZATION will drive tic on a journey to completely find out about his mother's side and question his father about everything which will reveal the george angle
My father did the same with us. He beat the shit out if us.

He would forget things, like put us on punishment for 3 days, then forget the length of the punishment. When we reminded him he would either whoop us or extend the punishment until he FELT like letting us off, and for something minor

He once took away (hid) our transformers for an open-ended punishment (which ended up being over a year) because we didn't clean up the play room before dinner

Reminding him that he forgot was a personal affront that he saw as an attack and he responded violently on my mother, brother and I, so I get that

I was just trying to understand the point of the gay shit. If it has a point we've yet to see, fine. But I cant see the reason for the gayness thus far

In The Old Guard with Charlize Theron, they added gay shit for no reason, and it didn't move the story forward. It's beyond the fact I don't like seeing two men kiss. If it has a purpose I'm okay with it, but who am i?

Admittedly I don't like seeing man-on-man sex scenes or effeminate men. And the drag show was unnecessarily gratuitous as if to push an agenda.

I admit, the afrofuturism aspect was super dope. The Dahomey Amazons and Bessie Stringfield were things I had no idea of them or the meaning until @NightMare Paint said something
 
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