‘Lovecraft Country’ Review: History and Hallucination Collide

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‘Lovecraft Country’ Review: History and Hallucination Collide
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Review: Despite its few hiccups, HBO’s frequently spellbinding series 'Lovecraft Country' merits attention for several reasons, including a baroque approach to story, and a regard for the past as being haunted and inescapable

The largely spellbinding “Lovecraft Country” will find its base among nostalgic, literary, socially conscious sci-fi devotees as well as special-effects buffs, who’ll be particularly pleased with the flaming hallucination that opens episode 1.

While the voiceover tells us it’s 1928, the soldiers in the World War I-era trenches seem to be fighting World War II. Then a red woman in an intergalactic bikini descends from the heavens, embraces an American soldier, and both are attacked by a sky-filling octopus with wings—essentially,...

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