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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8075878" data-attributes="member: 7023840">So, in fairness, I'm a big fan of Lovecraft, and also a big fan of the show (so far- only two episodes in). I haven't read the book the series is based on.But I think of it kind of like, well, the movie Naked Lunch. If you've ever read the book Naked Lunch, you know that it's unfilmable. But if you've seen the film, you know that it somehow captures the essence of the book in many ways (and of other Burroughs stories), while also not being the book at all. It's different.I tend to view this in a similar way. It's most definitely not cosmic horror! But so far, it's playing on, and with, those tropes. At every turn, the scariest things are often not the unknowable madness of infinities beyond, but the very knowable racism of the time.It's a constant subversion of the tropes as to what is monstrous. Personally, I really like it; it plays against the typical Lovecraft. Then again, I've always felt that "Lovecraft" is really hard to bring to the screen (Annihilation, The Thing, and Event Horizon all being "Lovecraftian" without being of the mythos).</blockquote>