Lovecraft Country was a great show, but last night’s ending was a little weak. Happily, it sounds like plans are being laid for a second season.
Part horror celebration and part commentary of America’s fraught history of racial oppression, HBO’s Lovecraft Country has been a thrill to watch these past several weeks, with each episode bringing something new and unexpected to the table. Last night, showrunner Misha Green gave us the finale we’d been waiting for, and it was…okay.
“Full Circle” wasn’t bad or anything, but it felt a little incomplete to me. It ends very abruptly with (SPOILERS incoming) Dee killing Christina, which seems like an odd choice given that the two characters didn’t have much of a connection.
And then there was…nothing. I really could have used some wind-down with the other characters. What happened next with Montrose? Did Hippolyta stick around or go off on more adventures? And is Ruby alive or what?
At this point, the only way I might be satisfied is if the show returns for a second season, and luckily, it sounds like that’s the plan. “With the finale I wanted to bring the arc of the first season to a close, while opening a door to the next,” Green told Deadline. “In the writer’s room we talked a lot about what ‘full circle’ looks like for each character, and then set out to do that in a surprising, yet satisfying way. I think it’s up to the audience to decide if we succeed, and hopefully they will.”
"Nothing is official yet, but I envision a second season that carries on the spirit of Matt Ruff’s novel by continuing to reclaim the genre storytelling space that people of color have typically been left out of."
Of course, at the moment, getting a second season off the ground might be tricky, what with studios still putting plans in place to shoot during the coronavirus pandemic. But given how much buzz the first season got, my bet is that it’ll get renewed sooner or later.
Or at least I hope it does, cause the series deserves better than a “meh” finish.
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