When Hippolyta Freeman flew haphazardly through a portal in the wall of a remote observatory, the act gave me a metaphor about Lovecraft Country itself that I didn’t grasp until after the finale. “I Am” came seventh in a dizzying (and many times, dazzling) stack of episodes based on Matt Ruff’s graphic novel of the same name. Plenty of people have opined on what Lovecraft Country missed in its ambitious debut season, and who its failures might have harmed, to the point where much of the discussion about it has become adversarial: adoring fans vs. naysayers. I didn’t disagree with most of the critiques, nor…
Lovecraft Country Is a Portal, Not a Landing Place
