“Lovecraft Country” wasted no time in showing where it’s headed. The HBO series set in 1954 started Sunday night with a face-off between a tentacled monster and Jackie Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform and wielding a bat. Though the scene from the first episode was just a dream in the mind of Atticus Freeman, a Korean War veteran dozing in the back of a segregated bus, it gave viewers an immediate glimpse of the world within the show, where supernatural horror meets real American history. For viewers, there are symbolic...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 17, 2020 02:15 UTC