A young man journeys through Jim Crow America, facing both racist terrors and surreal, malevolent spirits.
Suspenseful. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Max.
For a TV-MA, this one goes further: strong sex and nudity. Beyond that, real scares and several jump scares.
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The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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