US serial premiere revives terrible brand of racism

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17 August 2020

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Los Angeles, USA, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) The American series Lovecraft Country is causing a stir on social networks today after its premiere on television in the country whose racial discrimination it portrays in a symbolic but explicit way.

The HBO channel premiered the day before the work classified within the horror genre telling the story of three African Americans who face human monsters in the form of white supremacists.

Many speak of a bold series that allows us to glimpse the discrimination of blacks in the United States for a long time; since it places the story in the 1950s but connects with the current stage due to the numerous violent acts of segregation manifested in recent months in the country.

The series, produced by Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams, has in its cast Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance and Michael Kenneth Williams.

One of the first to ponder Lovecraft Country on social media was the American director, screenwriter, producer and actress Ava Marie DuVernay, who on her Twitter profile said she was shaking and shouted a bravo for the entire stellar cast of the series.

For her part, the renowned screenwriter Shanon Houston commented on the premiere: in the writers room we talked endlessly about black families and generational trauma, how we transmit so much to our children. How abuse is normalized.

Lovecraft Country's main screenwriter, Misha Green, personally thanked many of the comments.

While some users recalled the Green Book (Green Book), a kind of travel guide that existed in the 1950s for blacks with details of hotels, restaurants, barbershops and other services just so they did not mix with white people.