Thought it was excellent and very satisfying without quite hitting the highs of some previous episodes.
Assuming the book was a one off and it's all been told in this first season?
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
Yes, there are some differences in the overaching plot but they covered all of the same material.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
(I haven't read it yet, just the Wikipedia synopsis)
Hoping this at least opens that gates fopr further explorations along similar lines while also hoping it doesn't lead to clones or similar.Did wonder if this was going to get a 2nd season, same with Watchmen which i also finished yesterday. Thought I wasn't going to like that then did.Funny that they both featured Greenwood heavily , was it a coincidence?
anyway want to see more of this cast so hope they are going to go onto good new stuff.well the black cast anyway.
Oh yeah did like Hypolyta coming in to save her daughter with the blue hair of the spacegirl showing.
& wonder where the story would go with Dee. Did something happen off screen that we should know about there , but spoiler.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
I read the book a few years ago so I'm a little rusty on the differences, especially with the show so fresh in mind, but it does generally cover the same ground. The book is structured as a series of short stories that link these characters together, so it's a little less linear in the overarching narrative, though it still picks up on pretty much everything. Iirc, the most significant difference being that Tic's back story in Korea is only hinted at but never fully delved into.
Most of the other changes were much for the better. Specifically the episode about the spell cast on D is actually told from the perspective of a cousin, Horace, that isn't included in the TV series, and his spell is to be chased by all sorts of inanimate objects. I thought the way the show handled this with D was much more well done and more terrifying. Hippolyta's trip to the telescope is quite different in the book as well, more explicitly trying it to the racist history of the Braithwhite family, but I also liked how they dealt with it in the show better.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
I also loved the emotional arc of all the characters. If there’s one thing I wish had happened, it’s that Sammy had also been accepted by the family. It’s certainly a thread a second season could pick up, but I also am not sure what story a second season would tell; they resolved the central conflict and effectively destroyed Lovecraft Country. They can all make themselves impervious to harm. It might be fun to see where these characters go when unencumbered by the fear of oppression as well as exploring what limits there are to the magic they have reclaimed but how do you do that in a way that keeps them heroic and doesn’t invite lazy comparisons to Randian philosophy? I’m willing to give a subsequent season the benefit of the doubt but story wise, this was satisfying for me.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, October 20, 2020 9:34 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is similar to my thoughts. All the characters were so well done, so balanced, in that while Atticus was the focus, so many other characters received substantial, important screen time, so you really got to connect with them all. I would go so far to say it was one of my favorite seasons of any show, ever, certainly of anything sci-fi/fantasy.
― He was very mean to Mr. Chamillionaire (PBKR), Thursday, 22 October 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=859S8CMUsFANOt sure how long this si going to work, it's liove now .Talk with the producers of the show
― Stevolende, Friday, 20 November 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
I will say between this and Watchmen, the way that prestige TV storytellers are leaning on "powerful Black man sacrifices himself to save others and passes his power on to the Black woman he loves" as a plot resolution device at the moment is a bit much
― DJP, Monday, 21 December 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
Season two not happening. Total bullshit.
― I Scream For Ice Cream But Also Just All The Time And For No Reason (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
RIP Michael K Williams - lots of stuff being shared about how deep he went for the role of Ambrose good interview w Williams & Majors touches on a lot of the emotional work they did https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/lovecraft-country-jonathan-majors-michael-k-williams-1235000962
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 04:24 (two years ago) link
*montrose, not ambrose sry
there was a zoom interview w the cast where william broke down talking about playing montrose - it’s v moving, you can tell the cast are very closei can only find a clip, will try to find whole thing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIL7irq3ZmA
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
just finished this season, thought it was great.
Episode 7: I am. was some of the best TV I've seen in ages.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 21 October 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link