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“Lovecraft Country” Trailer Previews What’s Coming in the Weeks Ahead

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4 years ago

August 17, 2020

HBO’s new horror-drama series “Lovecraft Country,” based on Matt Ruff’s novel, got off to one hell of a good start last night, introducing the cast of characters, faithfully adapting the first 60 pages of the book, and unleashing gruesome all-out monster mayhem. If the premiere was any indication, Misha Green‘s series is taking the novel to a whole nother level.

Lovecraftian weirdness collides with Jim Crow-era racial tensions in “Lovecraft Country,” with new episodes premiering every Sunday night. Preview the upcoming episodes below.

The series follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father (Michael Kenneth Williams).

This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.

[Review] “Lovecraft Country” Haunts With Horrors Human and Monstrous in Compelling Series

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Thandiwe Newton Joins the Cast of “Wednesday” Season 2

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3 hours ago

April 23, 2024

John Squires

Pictured: Thandiwe Newton in 'God's Country' (2022)

Last week we learned that Steve Buscemi had joined the cast of “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix, and Variety lets us know that Thandiwe Newton (“Westworld”) has also signed on.

Jenna Ortega is back as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s “Wednesday,” with Steve Buscemi playing the new principal of Nevermore Academy.

Jenna Ortega stars in the hit series as Wednesday Addams, with Luis Guzmán playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Morticia in Tim Burton’s Netflix series. Christina Ricci also appears in the show, playing a brand new role, with Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester.

“Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy.” The series follows…

“Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.”

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”) are the writers and showrunners, with Tim Burton executive producing and directing several episodes of the show’s debut season.

We don’t know much about “Wednesday” Season 2 at the moment but Jenna Ortega has promised that the new season will be “bolder” and darker than the first season of the series.

“We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror more,” Ortega said last year.

Wednesday review