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Mental illness is front and center in “Ratched,” as is sexual orientation.

“Them” can be both hard to watch and hard to turn away from. In “Them,” created by Little Marvin, mental illness is both a cause and result of violent racism. Still suffering from the unspeakable trauma that hastened their departure from North Carolina, Lucky and Henry face hauntings, hallucinations and the certainty that their sanity is on shaky ground. But, like in “Lovecraft,” the supernatural and the racist go hand in hand.

They’ll do anything to keep Black people out of the neighborhood (yes, at that time, Compton was largely white). But when Lucky (Deborah Ayorinde), her husband Henry (Ashley Thomas) and their two daughters relocate to Southern California’s Compton, they find terrors awaiting them.įirst there are the neighbors, all white, led by Alison Pill’s Betty Wendell. Set in 1953, two years before the main action of “Lovecraft Country,” “Them” is a particularly ghastly take on the Second Great Migration, in which some 5 million African Americans moved from the South to theoretically more tolerant parts of the country. This theme applies with even greater conviction to “Them,” the disturbing anthology series on Amazon Prime. One way to sum up “Lovecraft Country”: Jim Crow is horror. “Each episode’s complex themes and historical events also shine a light on the topography of American racism, and really bring the idea that people can be much scarier than giant monsters.” Production designer Kalina Ivanov echoes that thought.

With ‘Lovecraft Country,’ we’re telling a story about generational trauma and Black life in America, and then we put all the monsters on top of that,” Green previously told The Envelope. “For Black people, the real world is just as scary as the horror world.

It also uses music, from Fats Domino to Cardi B, to connect yesterday to today. Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele, combines the fantastic with the all-too-real. Set largely in Chicago, “Lovecraft,” executive produced by J.J. Its torments include real-life horrors (the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, bloodthirsty town sheriffs, burning crosses on the lawn) a white, spell-casting secret society and various monsters, spirits and demons. Lovecraft, the series takes us on a journey through Jim Crow America of the ‘50s, North and South. Take “Lovecraft Country,” the HBO fantasy series based on the novel by Matt Ruff.