542: Don't Open the Cthulhu Box

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Pick up a baseball bat and climb into the Woodie car that’s bigger on the inside, because it’s time to discuss HBO’s “Lovecraft Country.” This is a breathtakingly ambitious multi-genre anthology series with recurring characters. It’s about race and sex and society and love and hideous supernatural monsters. It’s set in the Jim Crow era, but also the past and the future and other planes of existence. And if you like the genres that we cover on The Incomparable, it’s worth your time....

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0:00.0	Incomparable shirts are on sale and only for a very limited time through November 30th of 2020.
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0:17.1	And if you're not a member, it's okay.
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0:32.5	The Inconquerable.
0:36.5	Number 542.
0:40.2	November 2020.
0:43.8	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:46.1	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:47.8	And this episode is all about a recently completed HBO series,
0:53.3	Lovecraft Country, based on the novel by Matt Ruff, executive produced by Misha Green.
0:59.5	It is 10 episodes. Very interesting series. Horror, social commentary, just rivers of blood and gore, lots of things going on in Lovecraft Country, and here to
1:16.2	talk about them all with me, our four wonderful people. Cicero Holmes is here. Cicero,
1:21.9	hello, welcome back. Uh, yeah, hey, I, um, I'm traveling down the river of blood.
1:28.4	Well, it's kind of a torrent right now in Lovecraft Country.
1:33.3	Uh, Dan Moran is here.
1:34.3	Hi, Dan.
1:35.0	Hi, Jason.
1:35.6	The elevator in my house goes, you don't even want it.
1:38.0	No, I don't.
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