HBO has set the premiere date for “Lovecraft Country,” a new drama series set in Jim Crow-era America from J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele.
Premiering Sunday, August 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and streaming on HBO Max, the 10-episode series comes from showrunner and executive producer Misha Green and is based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff.
“Lovecraft Country” is described as following “Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he journeys with his childhood friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) on a road trip from Chicago across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father Montrose (Michael Kenneth Williams).