Lovecraft Country? So were we and after watching the first five episodes from showrunner Misha Green (Underground) and executive producers Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams, we’re all in for this sci-fi horror’s loopy ride.Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, the storyline can be described as Stranger Things set in Jim Crow America.
The show bounces back and forth between fighting real world threats like “sundown towns” and segregated neighborhoods of the 1950s to battling ghosts in haunted houses and extraordinary fictional creatures like shoggoths, a tentacled monster featured in the works of fantasy writer H.P.
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