The reviews for this episode are quite disappointing.
Suddenly everyone is a Lovecraft snob, a Director, an Editor, a horror master. Take your pick.
Coming from a fan of Lovecraft over the last 11 years, I really enjoyed this episode. It's not the directors point to rival or compete with Lovecraft. It's to adapt a story.
People complaining that the episode didn't replicate Lovecraft's writings... Do you hear yourself? Lovecraft is one of the more challenging authors to read. He writes very complex, verbose, and sometimes even convoluted weaving structures.
What does the episode do? It does a great job of presenting that horrifying, unknown darkness. That one-of-a-kind flavor of terror that could only come from Lovecraft. Or adaptations of his work.
It's not a predictable jump-scare 101 presentation. It's a jarring, tense, methodical fall into insanity, blood, and fearful unknowns.
People need to quite trying to be an arm-chair movie-critic and just sit back and enjoy the adaptation.
Enjoy these precious few minutes we get to have in Lovecrafts world. We seldom get to see his works brought to the screens. And, I, for one, hope this can open some more cosmic doors to future possibilities where that can happen more often.
But, it stands less of a chance of happening if some people suddenly decide they are Lovecraft snobs, and want to uselessly shred an otherwise faithful adaption.
Just sit back, enjoy the ride, and be horrified (for all the right reasons!)