‘Lovecraft Country’ Creator Misha Green On Tonight’s Finale, Season 2 & “Meaningful Sacrifice” - Deadline

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight’s Lovecraft Country Season 1 finale.

“As an artist, I make art to start conversations, and one always hopes their art is a reflection of the times,” says Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green in a definite understatement of the discourse and timeliness of the HBO series that wrapped up its first season tonight.

Certainly, tonight’s fiery Green penned and Nelson McCormick directed “Full Circle” finale hit those bullseyes hard – as my colleague Dino-Ray Ramos details here in his recap and analysis of the season ender?

In that vein, Green chatted with me about the Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors and Michael Kenneth Williams starring series, the surprises of “Full Circle” and subsequently what a likely second season could entail?

DEADLINE: So, with George’s upcoming birth, Atticus’ posthumous letter to Montrose and Diana’s bloody killing of Christina, sure feels like there’s a second season coming.

GREEN: Nothing is official yet, but I envision a second season that carries on the spirit of Matt Ruff’s novel by continuing to reclaim the genre storytelling space that people of color have typically been left out of?

DEADLINE: What this the way you wanted the first season to end when you started on the project.

DEADLINE: Broadcast during a pandemic and as a bitterly divided America faces not just an election but a renewed focus on racial injustice and institutionalization brutality from the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, Lovecraft Country has become a touchstone in the cultural discourse.

I’ve been excited to see all the discourse around Lovecraft Country, and I hope it continues long after the finale.

With all the genres and mythologies Lovecraft Country explored and its unveiling of sorts of a secret history of racism in America, what did you want to do with the finale.

GREEN: With the finale I wanted to bring the arc of the first season to a close, while opening a door to the next.

— Misha Green (@MishaGreen) October 12, 2020?

DEADLINE: Like you did on Underground, Lovecraft Country has woven in real historical events such as the brutal murder of Emmett Till and the 1921 Greenwood massacre.

GREEN: Historical references were baked into Matt Ruff’s novel – sundown towns, the Tulsa Massacre, the Green Book — which is one of the reasons I was initially drawn to it.

— Misha Green (@MishaGreen) October 19, 2020