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HP Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer known for his science fiction stories, his slimy gigantic monsters, and his fierce racism. Well, he came to describe blacks as subhuman, to whom he compared with monkeys and attributed all kinds of vices. So why has HBO put his name in the title of his latest series? Lovecraft Territory, an adaptation of the homonymous novel published in 2016 by New York (and white) author Matt Ruff, tells the journey of an African-American family through the United States in the 1950s dominated by Jim Crow laws: a hostile place where the true The threat is not, so much, the fantastic beings that wait in the shadows, like the white supremacists, legitimized to kill them when the sun goes down in the so-called sundown towns.

At the center of this story is Atticus (Jonathan Majors) , a veteran of the Korean War who, after fighting for his country , finds an America that has no place for him. After the mysterious disappearance of his father (Michael Kenneth Williams), he decides to go looking for him together with his childhood friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance), editor of a travel guide specialized in guide African-Americans through the safest establishments and routes.

“It is a really timely series and a way of looking at everything that is wrong in our country today. Because we have not reached the current situation overnight ", tells EL MUNDO Kenneth Williams , an actor known for his roles in series such as The Wire or Boardwalk Empire , about the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder of George Floyd.

“Racism has been there since the birth of the country. And that fear that Atticus experiences is in my point of view as a human being and as an actor, ”says Majors, who describes the Lovecraft Territory experience as cathartic, having allowed him to channel much of the anger that he still feels in 2020. But is there the real threat of returning to the days of segregation?

« The idea of ​​progress is a fallacy . And I think time, when it comes to race, is very cyclical, "replies Aunjanue Ellis, Atticus's aunt in fiction. “African Americans in the United States have reached certain goals, now we have rights, but later we realize that we have not achieved anything. Because that posttracial moment ", which announced the presidency of Barack Obama ," simply did not happen, "says the actress of So They See Us. "That is why the question is not when it will end or if we will go back, but how do we manage the reality that this black anti-racism never ends, how do we talk about the problem of race in America and in the world today", beginning with the discussion that he intends start this series.

For me the question is: what else is missing? Another George Floyd, another 9/11?

Courtney B. Vance

Navigating between terror and science fiction, Lovecraft Territory uses , then, Lovecraft's monsters as a metaphor for that perennial racism, sometimes latent and, on others, more than patent, with the clear idea of ​​building a bridge between that past and the present present. At the helm of the narration is showrunner Misha Green, executive producer and screenwriter of the series Underground , a period drama set in 1857 about a group of slaves from a Georgia plantation who traveled nearly 1,000 kilometers north in hopes of achieve freedom . And as producer the acclaimed Jordan Peele, director of two recent milestones in horror films with an African-American perspective: Let me out and We .

By way of conclusion, Law & Order actor Courtney B. Vance reflects: “For me the question is: what else is missing? Another George Floyd, another 9/11? If this pandemic doesn't unite us, what will it take to realize that we need each other? Because, in the end, all the stories tell that to fight the monsters you have to unite, and now we are in the middle of two monsters, the coronavirus and racism.

Series for the remainder of summer

Normal People, Starzplay

The long-awaited adaptation of the novel by Sally Rooney, according to The New York Times , the first great millennial writer, has become one of the series of the summer for its ability to relate the tortuous first love of Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal), two young people from different social classes living in Ireland after the 2008 crisis.

The collapse, Filmin

As spectacular as it is artificial, this French series deals with the consequences of the end of the world in eight chapters shot, all in sequence. On your way through nursing homes and supermarkets, comparisons to the coronavirus crisis can be terrifying.

Ines of my soul, Amazon

Before landing on Televisión Española, on a date yet to be confirmed, the adaptation of the homonymous novel by Isabel Allende can already be seen on Amazon. Elena Rivera plays Inés Suárez, a young and daring woman from Extremadura who traveled to the New World in search of her lover and ended up conquering Chile.

I could destroy you, HBO Spain

Michaela Coel exorcises her own demons by turning the sexual assault she suffered into fiction. And reflecting on this heartbreaking account of the fuzzy limits of consent and the consequences of trauma in the post #MeToo era.

Cobra Kai, August 28 on Netflix

After its failed experiments with its payment platform, YouTube gives the streaming giant this nostalgic sequel to Karate Kid , with Daniel LaRusso and his arch-enemy Johnny Lawrence included. Meanwhile, Netflix is ​​already working on the third season.

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