'Lovecraft Country' Recap: Burning Down the House

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In the second episode of ‘Lovecraft Country,’ Tic, Leti, and George explore the Ardham mansion — and all hell breaks loose. Alan Sepinwall’s recap

. A lot seems to happen in the space of an hour, yet it often seems to be happening very slowly, because it’s obvious from the get-go that our heroes’ young hosts, Christina Braithwhite and William , plus Christina’s father Samuel , are up to very bad things indeed. There are specific details to be worked out about what the Braithwhites are doing and why they need Tic for it, and Montrose’s whereabouts have to be ascertained.

After that, the trio attempt to learn more about their hosts, the house, and the nearby village. They are mostly frustrated on each front. In town, Dell menaces them with her dogs, while suggesting these nonwhite visitors are the ones she’d rather see on a leash. At the house, William and Christina separately duck most of their questions, though Christina at least saves them from another shoggoth attack when they don’t heed warnings about being in the woods after dark.

Along the way, there are some more mind games by the house — including Tic being forced to fight a Korean woman , while Leti gets to kiss a figment of Tic, as Samuel and the other bigots watch it all like it’s on television — and Montrose manages to free himself from his underground prison by taking inspiration from. But most of the action feels sketchier than anything that happened in the premiere, at least until we get to the climax.

But man, the choice of Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey on the Moon” to score the sequence covers for a lot of sins — both in the climax, and in the entire episode. It’s not quite like the use of the James Baldwin speech from the travel montage last week, because Scott-Heron is reciting poetry to a beat.

 

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Just when you think it’s this...it’s that. Then right when you get that...it’s this. It’s like all genres(romance...comedy...etc) in one. It is beautifully shot. All your senses are touched when watching this show. Can’t wait to see where it goes from here!

I’m still not sure what I just watched

This episode was a mess.

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