‘Lovecraft Country’ Finale Review: Season 1 Is Beautiful, Bonkers TV — and Little Else

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Lovecraft Country” Season 1, Episode 10, “Full Circle,” including the ending.]

Pinpointing the bloodiest, most batshit moment of any “Lovecraft Country” episode, let alone the finale’s, is an exercise only for those with stomachs of steel — likely literal steel, given the frank show we’re talking about. But with hands over our eyes, let’s look back at the finale’s final death for just a second: Diana (Jada Harris), wielding the furious power of her cousin’s Black shoggoth (again, subtext is text in “Lovecraft Country”), walks up to the half-crushed body of Christina Braithwhite (Abbey Lee) and stares down at trapped villainess. Christina pleads with the teenage girl to save her; hoping, even expecting the young Black woman to help this once invulnerably privileged white lady — even though Christina just murdered Diana’s dear friend and family member, Tic (Jonathan Majors).

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Naturally, this being “Lovecraft Country” — HBO’s latest off-the-wall horror show masquerading as prestige TV — the most extreme choice plays out: Diana first reveals a sleek, new, far-too-advanced-for-1955 robot arm and then proceeds to use said arm to crush Christina’s throat until blood explodes through her gleaming metal fingertips.

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