Lovecraft Country was one of the most electric new series of 2020, bracingly engaging with issues of racial injustice while also being a ceaselessly unpredictable wild ride of a supernatural creepshow. The first season wrapped in October, and ever since fans have wondered if we would getting a second.
At present, the answer seems to be, “maybe.” HBO programming president Casey Bloys has said that showrunner Misha Greene is working with “a small team of writers” to come up with a take for a second season. “She had a book to go on in the first season, she and the writers wanted to go off and take some time to go out and figure out without a book with these characters, what’s the journey we want to go on. We all want to be sure she’s got a story to tell. That’s where she is right now, working on those ideas. I’m very hopeful, as is Misha, so we’re giving them the time to work.”
Indeed, the first season of Lovecraft Country was based on Matt Ruff’s book of the same name, so the question now becomes what happens to these characters go now that the source material has been exhausted. Michael K. Williams, who played the combative Montrose Freeman, doesn’t see that as a downside. “It is exciting, honestly, because it’s a reveal. It’s a big surprise,” he told Collider. “I guess I can speak for my castmates, we’re like, ‘What are you gonna do now?’ We don’t know. It’s exciting to wonder what they’re conjuring up in the writers’ room. It’s very exciting.”
Michael K. Williams was in HBO shows like The Wire and Boardwalk Empire before joining Lovecraft Country
With writers actually working on a second season, you’d figure it’d be a sure thing, but ambiguity remains. HBO is usually pretty careful about not making more episodes of shows unnecessarily, so there’s no guarantee Lovecraft Country season 2 will actually happen.
But Williams thinks it’s coming. “Whatever the outcome will be, I’ll have to be all right with it because I have no bearing on that aspect of the world, but I feel very hopeful that there will be a Season 2,” he said.
"I know that show took a lot out of me, so I can only imagine what the writers must have gone through for three years. I came in for eight or nine months, and that was the final part of the process for that. In all actuality, Lovecraft Country took about three years to get it to the point where they were ready for the actors to come on set. It’s heavy stuff. It’s heavy lifting and a lot of that lifting is done in the writers’ room. I do believe that there will be a Season 2, but when? Who knows."
The first season of Lovecraft Country certainly showed a lot of verve and creativity. I’d be completely open to another go-round, but I also appreciate HBO not greenlighting it just because. Here’s hoping Green and her team come up with something good.
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