Lovecraft Country
originally aired on HBO
Lovecraft Country is an American black horror historical fantasy drama television series. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO. The series is about a young black man who travels across the segregated United States in the 1950s in search of his missing father. HBO announced in July 2021 that the series had been canceled.
Lovecraft Country follows "Atticus Freeman as he joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. The episodes "I Am." and "Jig-a-Bobo" establish that the Lovecraft Country novel exists in the continuity of the series as a novel written by George Freeman II.