Is there hope for Lovecraft Country?

The show, simultaneously (recently) cancelled by HBO Max and the recipient of 18 Emmy nominations, does not have an official new home, but the speculation is out there that perhaps it will get picked up by Apple TV+.

The hope stems after the show’s creator and showrunner Misha Green inked a multiple-year overall deal with Apple, following what sources say was a competitive bidding process for the writer/exec producer. At Apple, Green will create and develop new TV projects exclusively for the streaming platform.

This could just be wishful thinking, but Lovecraft Country earned 18 Emmy nods in categories ranging from best acting to best writing to best stunts. That’s a near-record number of nominations for a cancelled show. The overload of nominations makes it hard to hard to understand its cancellation, as does fact that the season one finale in October was the most-watched episode of an original series on HBO Max in its first day of availability.

Season one of Lovecraft Country was inspired by the horror-drama novel of the same name, The book, written by Matt Ruff, follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he travels through 1950s Jim Crow America with his friend, Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) , and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) as the group battles supernatural monsters – and worse, human ones – while searching for Freeman’s missing father. 

On the off chance there is a season two, Green does have a plan on where the show would go. On Tuesday, Green tweeted a look at the second season ‘Bible’, showing the direction the show would have gone.

Green said that season two would’ve been dubbed Lovecraft Country: Supremacy, and tweeted that it would “begin[s] in a new world, and that new world is a country that sits where The United States used to sit”, referencing the Sovereign States of America. She also shared a map of a divided United States, including new areas for “Tribal Nations of the West,” the “Whitelands,” the “New Negro Republic,” and the “Jefferson Commonwealth.”

It may never come to pass, but perhaps if the show garners a few crucial Emmy wins, someone will pick it up.

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