History YMMV / LovecraftCountry

* UnfortunateImplications:
** Some viewers have pointed out the [[https://forward.com/culture/453706/hbo-s-lovecraft-country-contains-a-plot-point-that-resembles-an-age-old/ antisemitic]] implications surrounding the character of Hiram Epstein in episode 3, likening it to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel blood libel]] a centuries-old belief that Jewish people would steal the blood of non-Jewish children for use in rituals. Notably, this is unique to the series, as the character in the book was named Hiram Winthrop and, while an abusive husband and father, did not engage in human experimentation.
** After the airing of "A History of Violence", representation of the LGBT and ''especially'' Indigenous communities have left their audiences [[https://medium.com/@popcultureconnections/lovecraft-country-was-great-until-it-wasnt-from-sundown-to-a-history-of-violence-8febafd2ce3d very troubled]] for the treatment of Yahima.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The crew singing "Sh-Boom" in the car together. Even [[GrumpyBear Montrose]] joins in!

* FridgeBrilliance: Christina inherits only some of her family's favors, but remains on the outs with her father due to being a woman. She seems to fully accept Tic as family, suffers Emmett Till's fate to understand the despair of black people, repeatedly aids the black protagonists, and is clearly quite taken with Ruby in particular. She's also willing to kill everyone to get what she wants. She represents that portion of white women who know and empathize with black people, but still side with oppression when it helps their ends.

* {{SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments}}: The crew singing "Sh-Boom" in the car together. Even [[GrumpyBear Montrose]] joins in!

* HarsherInHindight: Bobo asking the Ouijia Board if he'll have a good time on his vacation.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Montrose [[spoiler: killed a Native American Two Spirit in cold blood]], Ruby [[spoiler: anally raped a man to PayEvilUntoEvil]], George [[spoiler: doesn't live past the second episode]], and Tic [[spoiler: executed an innocent nurse during the Korean War.]] This is in addition to being a bleak and horrifying show contrasting CosmicHorror with HumansAreTheRealMonsters. Some viewers are tuning out as a result.

* FridgeBrilliance: Christina inherits only some of her family's favors, but remains on the outs with her father due to being a woman. She seems to fully accept Tic as family, suffers Emmet Till's fate to understand the despair of black people, repeatedly aids the black protagonists, and is clearly quite taken with Ruby in particular. She's also willing to kill everyone to get what she wants. She represents that portion of white women who know and empathize with black people, but still side with oppression when it helps their ends.

** [[DirtyCop Captain Seamus Lancaster]] is the brutal, corrupt and racist officer who has designs on rising in his lodge at the Sons of Adam, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introducing himself]] by subjecting Letitia "Leti" Lewis to a "rough ride" as a form of torture and interrogation. Having delivered multiple victims for the [[PlayingWithSyringes horrific experiments]] of Hiram Epstein, Lancaster has an immortal body that he maintains by having black men abducted and murdered so he can take their body parts and organs to replace his own, even infecting young Diana with a curse to murder her should she not obey him.
** "[[Recap/LovecraftCountryS1E3HolyGhost Holy Ghost]]": [[MadScientist Hiram Epstein]], years ago in the basement of the [[HauntedHouse haunted Winthrop house]], captured eight black men and women and tortured them to death in a variety of ghastly experiments. Hiram kept the souls of his victims trapped in the Winthrop house in torment for years afterward, among his mutilated victims a woman [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled on railway spikes]] and a football player whose head has been reduced to a wailing infant through a deranged time travel experiment.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Montrose. He has a history of beating his son and still threatens to do so to this day, sabotages Tic's attempts to use magic in order to protect the family, and [[spoiler: killed a Native American Two Spirit without breaking a sweat]], and for a while was highly disliked. The revelation that he is a [[spoiler:self-hating homosexual who slowly learns to accept himself over the series]], and that many of his faults stem from trauma not only at the hands of his own father but also witnessing the Tulsa Race Massacre in his childhood, has helped some warm up to him, but for many the [[spoiler: murder]] still leaves a bad taste in their mouth.
** Tic himself gets this namely for his treatment of his father. Everyone accepts that the abuse Tic dealt with as a child is going to leave a heavy rift between them and he doesn't owe Montrose much, but as Montrose tries to explain his past, including witnessing the Tulsa Race Massacre firsthand and [[spoiler:forcing himself to stay in the closet for fear of being killed or worse]], Montrose staunchly refuses to accept any form of apology or even try to understand why he might freeze up after time travelling back to those events. As such, there are some viewers that think Tic is justified and others that think he should give Montrose a chance. The other place in Tic has detractors is the fact that he [[spoiler: helped torture an innocent nurse to death in Korea]]; saying that and the American Military Complex still doesn't justify what he did and that he got off easy just because Ji-Ah learned about his past.
* BrokenBase: In the finale, [[spoiler: Diana]] killing [[spoiler: Christina]]. Some people are against it because they don't like [[spoiler: Diana being exposed to such trauma at such a young age]]. Other people are for it simply because [[spoiler: Christina had it coming, especially after everything she did to hurt Diana's family and friends]]. And then there are fine with it happening, but question the narrative payoff the scene is supposed to have since the two characters [[spoiler: have barely directly interacted with each other through the whole show]].