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We're previewing horror drama on HBO.
Lovecraft Country. I'm Mandi and this
show
looks deathly scary.
I'm Mandi. I'm Dan. Subscribe to BuzzChomp!
Let me break down what we know in this
deathly scary
show. Looks awesome. It's brought to us by
Jordan Peele and J.J.
Abrams so you know there's going to be
like
some really really good elements brought
into it. It is based on a novel by the
same name
that explores the dark fantasy
fiction world of H.P Lovecraft and the
jim crow laws of the 1950s. So there's
gonna be a sense of it based in
reality and then obviously this
not this fantasy element which i think
is super super cool and i
love it when shows do that and that's
what's getting me
excited initially about the show,
especially
not really knowing much about the book.
It's reminding me, it's giving me like His Dark Material vibes, but obviously
that was based on a
children's book series where this is
just based on one book
that is not geared toward children at
all. What's getting me excited about this
is about this guy named Atticus Freeman,
he's a korean war vet,
he's on a search and he's on a search
for his dad. He 
likes pulp books, he obviously believes
that there's a Lovecraft Country when 
everyone around him is telling them it's
not. There's nothing like that. His eyes
open to the fantasy.
He's played by Jonathan Majors. He's
really one of the only actors in the
show that i'm not
really familiar with, but he's going to
partner with his friend
Letty who is like a civil rights
activist and an artist and she's played
by Jurnee Smollett. She's such a
fabulous actress. She's been around since
she was like
a child. I have a feeling that there's
gonna be like a little love interest
there
and rounding out his crew, he's with him
uncle who's played by
Courtney B Vance. Courtney B Vance is
fabulous fabulous fabulous, supposed to
have penned the
"Safe Negro Travel Guide" so that's a real
thing. So it's super cool that they're
bringing that element in.
So they're gonna use that as they travel
and they're trying to find
his father and his father which i'm
super super excited about this
is played by Michael Kenneth Williams.
Hello Mmar from the wire,
awesome fabulous actor. So many other
people are going to know him from other
things, but i just love him as Omar on
The Wire. That's our setup there that
they're searching for his
father there and they're going to come
across
all this evil and they're going to come
across the
real reality of evil of like what's
going on in modern day,
obviously it's going to be heavily based
in civil rights
and the oppression of African Americans
and all that. I mean obviously there's
always that undertone
in Jordan Peele's work. Anyway because
like that's what he knows
but there's also gonna be like this
fantasy monsters
and ghosts and all that which I'm super
super psyched for. I'm super super
psyched for a
really gritty and dark scary scary
tv show and there's gonna be like the
classic elements in this. There's going
to be a racist sheriff played by Jaime
Harris and there's gonna be like a naive
nursing student that she's gonna come to
play. I don't know if she's gonna be like
their medic or
help them along the way her name's Jamie
Chung. You know where if you've seen her.
Also this is a secret order and we're
going to see the leader's daughter and
she's
very heavily featured in the show and
she has like this really handsome
bodyguard. So we
like round out that we have our like the
whole aspects of this like that are
going to be
you know the real evil of the day and
then the
horror evil and the monsters and all
that. So I'm super super excited to see
how they meld that together. Since I'm
not familiar with the book
and honestly I didn't see that much
online about it, but I didn't want to
read too much on about it because I
don't want to know. I want to follow this
series I want to
follow where this journey of this man
takes us.
I love good horror. I love things that
are going to keep me on the edge of my
seat and I'm going to be like wait
where is this going I like the science
fiction. I like the fantasy.
So that's why I really want to follow
the show and that's why I'm really
excited to see
where the next eight weeks of this
journey is gonna take us.
It's premiering august 16th on HBO. So
follow along because I will be following
along
with it. I'm Mandi. Subscribe to BuzzChomp
for more of our Lovecraft Country
and comment below. Did you read the book?
Are you excited? Did you not read the
book? Are you excited?
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