Happy Halloween! Everyone waiting for the next surprise? It's an episode on Lovecraft Country, for us. We had some thoughts, here. A white author tries to write about a black family using the X-Files formula and Lovecraftian horror themes ... then the book gets picked up by HBO for a pulpy series. Do the pieces fit together?

We find some favorite theological ideas about names and power, who gets to go adventuring, and whose stories get told, and by whom. There's a lot of Genesis connections, here. We also talk about where white supremacy's power winds up as it loses its grip on the magic in this show, what temptations that carries, and how that stacks up against other ideas put forth by Black Panther or Watchmen.

And as is so often the case with a good horror film, we point out where the scariest parts of Lovecraft Country come not from the fake monsters, but the real horrors that get mixed in. Check it out, Believers!