Lovecraft Country Episode 10: Full Circle Review
The season finale of Lovecraft Country, titled Full Circle, has Atticus, Letitia and Montrose stop Christina Braithwhite from using Atticus to become immortal.
This final episode was a bland conclusion to the series. Things happen but they do not matter cause the writers haven't given us a reason to care about the main storyline or the characters. What the writers do care about has already been said tangentially through subplots, historical references and its spinning wheel of pulp fiction metaphors.
Christina Braithwhite, over the last few episodes, has stopped feeling like a proper antagonist. Christina's goal of achieving immortality requires Atticus' blood, which conventionally would make them mortal enemies but the two characters have openly discussed this blood ritual so many times over house visits and traded mutual favors that they have become acquaintances. I don't buy this "it's not personal" dynamic put forth by Christina that Atticus and Letitia conveniently entertain. If someone needed to kill me to achieve immortality, it's personal. This just kills all the tension.
Overall, I am glad I saw Lovecraft Country. It has been quite the rollercoaster ride getting intermittently pumped up and being disappointed every week. Its mix of using pulp fiction genres to talk about social topics was fresh and engaging. Showrunner Misha Green capitalized on that but went too far into it, giving less attention to the main story of the season as the finale showed. The show worked better in parts than as a whole; my favorite episodes were the pilot and the ninth episode, Rewind 1921. It is like the show would rather be an anthology series at times, like a Twilight Zone that focuses on covering black history related social topics.
For me, this story has concluded. If Lovecraft Country gets picked up for a second season, I probably would not rush to see it until I heard decent word-of-mouth.