Lovecraft Country (TV series)

Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Matt Ruff. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO.[2] The series is produced by Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, and Warner Bros. Television Studios. The series is about a young Black man who travels across the segregated United States in the 1950s in search of his missing father, learning of dark secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H. P. Lovecraft supposedly based the location of many of his fictional tales. While a second season, Lovecraft Country: Supremacy, was in development, HBO announced in July 2021 that the series had been canceled.[3]

Lovecraft Country
Genre	Period drama Supernatural horror[1] Science fiction
Based on	Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
Developed by	Misha Green
Starring	Jurnee Smollett Jonathan Majors Aunjanue Ellis Courtney B. Vance Wunmi Mosaku Abbey Lee Jamie Chung Jada Harris Michael K. Williams
Music by	Laura Karpman and Raphael Saadiq
Ending theme	"Sinnerman" by Alice Smith
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producers	Misha Green J. J. Abrams Jordan Peele Yann Demange David Knoller (pilot) Bill Carraro Ben Stephenson Daniel Sackheim
Producers	Christina Varotsis Dana Robin
Cinematography	Tat Radcliffe Robert McLachlan Michael Watson
Editors	Marta Evry Chris Wyatt Joel T. Pashby Bjørn T. Myrholt Ian S. Tan Sean Albertson Paul Harb
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	53–68 minutes
Production companies	Afemme Monkeypaw Productions Bad Robot Productions Warner Bros. Television Studios
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	HBO
Original release	August 16 (2020-08-16) – October 18, 2020 (2020-10-18)