Review of Holy Ghost

Lovecraft Country: Holy Ghost (2020)
Season 1, Episode 3
7/10
Seems random but it's very Lovecraft
10 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This was a decent return to form after the very rushed and quite silly second episode. Truth is they are all deeply drawing from not just Lovecraft but from the Cthulhu Mythos wider universe and also the Call of Cthulhu role playing game. But presumably most viewers won't be aware of this. The end result is that the connective tissue between them is very weak. Taken on it's own merits this is actually a good hour of entertainment. There's quite a few ghost stories in Lovecraft, they tend to be his earlier works before the mythos was fully developed (post "Dagon"). And this is also an almost note for note interpretation of the classic Call of Cthulhu scenario, "The Haunting" - with a lot of "The Terrible Old Man" and a bit of "Herbert West - Reanimator" thrown in for good measure. I am definitely going to keep watching. The lodge (Silver Twilight Lodge - clearly) has some interesting potential and it wont be long before we see the Great Old Ones I'm sure, though Cthulhu was way way too small in the dream sequence in episode 1.
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