Despite Lovecraft Country being nominated for Best TV Drama at the Golden Globes as well as Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the SAG Awards, the series has still yet to be renewed for a second season.
However, in an interview with Deadline, HBO’s chief content officer Casey Bloys has stated that he is “very hopeful” for the future of Lovecraft Country with showrunner Misha Green currently working on the script with the creative team.
“Misha is working with a small team of writers and they’re coming up with a take. 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,” Bloys said.
The 10-episode series, which was based on and served as a continuation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Matt Ruff, follows Atticus Freeman as he journeys with his childhood friend Letitia and his uncle George on a road trip from Chicago across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father Montrose. Their search-and-rescue turns into a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and monstrous creatures that could be ripped from an H.P. Lovecraft book.
The series starred Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Abbey Lee, Jamie Chung, Jada Harris, and Michael K. Williams. Lovecraft Country was executive produced by Green, Get Out’s Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams, and Bad Robot TV boss Ben Stephenson.
