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From showrunner Misha Green (Underground) and based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff, the 10-episode series Lovecraft Country is a bold and provocative look at racism and the Black experience in America. Following the journey of Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he travels with his childhood friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father Montrose (Michael Kenneth Williams), the pulp fiction aficionado finds dangers lurking at every turn. During roundtables held as part of a virtual press junket for the new …

From showrunner Misha Green (Underground) and based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff, the 10-episode series Lovecraft Country is a bold and provocative look at racism and the Black experience in America. Following the journey of Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he travels with his childhood friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father Montrose (Michael Kenneth Williams), the pulp fiction aficionado finds dangers lurking at every turn. During roundtables held as part of a virtual press junket for the new …