![]() ![]() There is a natural temptation to compare “Lovecraft Country” to “Watchmen” - which also put Black heroes and Black history at the center of a genre piece - and, because Jordan Peele is an executive producer (along with J.J. ![]() Loewen’s study “Sundown Towns,” as in “get out by.” (Ruff is white series developer Misha Green, who previously wrote for the sci-fi series “Heroes” and “Helix” and created “Underground,” as in Railroad, is Black.) Matt Ruff, on whose 2016 novel the series is based - sometimes closely, sometimes loosely - was inspired in part by Pam Noles’ 2006 essay “Shame,” about the unbearable whiteness of sci-fi and the difficulties it presents to what she calls a “FoP,” as in, “Fan of Pigment,” and in its particulars by “The Negro Motorist Green-Book” and by James W. 16 on HBO, has something to say about the ordinary horrors of racism as well as the cosmic ones of fantastic fiction is mixed into its foundation. That “Lovecraft Country,” which premieres Aug. ![]()
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