Television, drug of the nation

Wasn't impressed at all.

It wasn't quite the US/Lovecraft country ripoff the internet was predicting but having sat through the full 10 episodes I have to say the discussions online about it being 'black trauma' porn are pretty spot on. Any deep insight into the black experience during those times is overshadowed by the overt "look how racist everyone was" tone without trying to make any point/commentary about it.

there's seemingly 3 plot lines and none of them really make sense in isolation and when combined everything is just a mess. there might be some lazy metaphors hidden in there but as a story it's just a bunch of tropes cobbled together.

there's a scene halfway through the season (the c** ** * *** one) that is so gratuitously unnecessary I would have happily given up on the show there and then but out of curiosity I persevered to see if I was missing the big wrap up at the end. I really wasn't.