81 INSANE DETAILS We Noticed In Lovecraft Country | Easter Eggs And Things You Missed
9,63981 INSANE DETAILS We Noticed In Lovecraft Country | Easter Eggs And Things You Missed. We breakdown the best Easter Eggs and Hidden Details in Season 1 of Lovecraft Country on HBO.
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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're gonna be breaking down 81 of our favourite details in Lovecraft Country.
Now the season starts off by introducing us to Atticus through his dreams. In this we see as the Korean War vet has flashbacks to his time in the war which becomes a pivotal plot point in episode six. Tic meets a version of Ji-Ah which is meant to resemble an alien and when he wakes up we can see that he's reading the John Carter Novel "A Princess Of Mars" which this scene is a reference too.
We can also see the tripods from the HG Well's War Of The Worlds as the torch the landscape.
During the scene we come face to face with the beast Chuthulu which is synonmous with Lovecraft's work.
The monster then gets split in half by none other than Jackie Robinson.
Robinson was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era and he's present in Tic's dreams because the character was brought up hearing stories from his mother and father about how they were saved by a character with a baseball bat during the Tulsa riots. In episode 9 this is actually revealed to be Atticus who time travelled to the event and it's nice that we get a tease of it here.
On the bus we see Atticus and another black passenger forced to sit at the back and above them hangs a sign which reads 'This part of the bus for the coloured race' This is actually a reference to a classic photograph which depicted segregation on buses (image 1)
It isn't the only riff on a historical image either and when Tic and co are driving through the country they pass an ice cream stand in which a black family are forced to stand at the colored side whilst they're ignored by the white staff members. This is actually a reference to an image taken by Gordon Parks who documented segregation in the civil rights era. (image 2)
Another reference to Parks appears not long after when we see a mother and daughter standing below a sign that says 'colored entrance.' The image (image 3) is almost exactly how we see it in the show and it's great that the creative team were able to lace the series with such details.
On the road the group are harrassed at a gas station and upon driving away we see an image for an Aunt Jemima advert behind her. Jemima very much plays into the mammy stereotype and this moment showcases how black people were ostricised by white people whilst they were happy to use their image to sell products and commodities.
We actually see the duality between advertisements for white men and aunt Jemima later in the season, in Strange Case, William stands infront of an advertisement for Wrigleys which shows white men as young and strong. Jemima on the other hand is more of a maternal looking figure, showing that she and black people in general were only deemed to be good enough to look after White people and provide them with food.
Recently Uncle Bens removed their mascot as they felt like it gave off the wrong kind of vibes and played on stereotypes which I feel this show is hinting at.
The show actually has an advert for Cream Of Wheat in Episode 8 and just recently he too was removed from the packaging as the company felt that it reinforced certain stereotypes.
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