Episode 8, titled "Jig-a-Bobo," is straight-up one of the scariest, if not the scariest, episode of the series thus far and it's also masterpiece with talents firing on all cylinders. I thought of that scene with dread and anticipation during Lovecraft Country's eighth episode, as two figures appeared to the Diana of this world (Jada Harris) and prompted old and new nightmares. We do not talk about it much because it still haunts us to this day. Anyone who watched The Wiz every time it came on TV, at every family reunion, and sometimes after church will remember the sheer nightmare fuel of that scene, which comes out of nowhere and really doesn't have any corollary in the film. at one point two trashcans grow teeth and latch onto Dorothy's arms.
Without warning they start chasing the Oz-bound crew, absolutely terrorizing them in ways that are at once fantastical and weirdly specific to the subway, i.e. Soon, the dolls start growing until they are taller than the busker. The busker doesn't speak so all we get is the squeaky sound of the dolls as they bob on the floor. They're approached by a masked subway busker who has two bouncing dolls hanging from a tray. The Land of Oz has a lot of issues to work through in the areas of equality and its caste system but its infrastructure seems to be doing great. Dorothy (Diana Ross) and company are mid-ease down the Yellow Brick Road when they stop into a subway station, a masterstroke of efficiency. One of the scariest scenes in all of Black cinematic history comes from the 1978 film version of The Wiz, the all-Black version of The Wizard of Oz. Welcome to another week of Scaredy Cat recaps, where I, a habitually terrified person, review what is and is not nightmare fuel on HBO's horror allegory Lovecraft Country.
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