SPOILER ALERT: the following article contains massive spoilers, including the ending. If you have not yet seen the movie, proceed at your own risk!
With every episode, ‘Lovecraft Country’ gets crazier. In its fifth episode, which is perhaps the most shocking episode of the season yet, it pushes the boundaries of its storytelling and resorts to the kind of body horror that makes your skin crawl. It delves deeper into the study of race relations and how different your life can be should the color of your skin be a different shade. Along with this, it also diverges significantly from its source material and creates its own mythology, which only makes things more intriguing. SPOILERS AHEAD