So the first episode of the anticipated adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel is finally out as of this sunday.   What’s your guys’ first impression of the show?  I’m still on the fence about it.  While historically it makes sense to paint HP Lovecraft as a racist, as much as he may have regretted that worldview before he died, I feel like the show might bang that drum a lot throughout the run of the show and that seems wrongheaded to me.  Also, of the monsters we’ve seen so far I’m not quite sure if any of them are actual Lovecraft creations or if they’re just “Lovecraftian”.   

Watching Jackey Robinson smash up what I think was a Starspawn with a baseball bat was probably either the most stupid or most amazing thing I’ve seen in a TV show in a good long while though.