Lovecraft Country's Dark but Necessary Depiction of the Jim Crow Era
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tvguide.comLovecraft Country. The most obvious is, of course, the absolutely terrifying literal monsters that will have you checking under your bed at night.
The second is the insidious institutional racism at work in the show's Jim Crow era setting. During the show's Comic-Con@Home panel, star Jurnee Smollett-Bell discussed the exhausting, yet necessary, process of depicting the chilling kind of racism that faced Black Americans in the 1950s, and how echoes of it are still alive today.In the pilot episode, Smollett-Bell's character has a tense run-in with the police while trying to get out of a sundown town.
Smollett-Bell says those kinds of scenes were challenging to film given how timely that situation still is today, over 60 years later."It is.
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