WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Lovecraft Country Season 1, Episode 10, "Full Circle," which aired Sunday on HBO.
While Atticus Freeman's story may have come to its bloody, foretold end with Lovecraft Country's Season 1 finale, there are plenty of directions the HBO series could go in a potential second season. And with the threat of the Sons of Adam and Christina Braithwaite having been neutralized, the future for the series largely lays in the next generation, with an entire multiverse of possibilities across time and space at their disposal.
Hippolyta's Powerful Cosmic Implants
After stealing an orrery belonging to the Sons of Adam, Tic's aunt, Hippolyta, accessed a secret planetarium and opened a portal to the multiverse. Hippolyta then received cosmic implants in her wrist from an advanced race, allowing her to travel to alternate dimensions or different points in history. Using these implants, she reunited with her deceased husband, George, by heading to an alternate universe, and let Atticus travel back to Tulsa 1921. This power makes Hippolyta the series' most powerful character and provides infinite directions for the show to potentially go next, including the possibility of Atticus returning from an alternate universe or earlier point in history before his sacrificial death.
Hippolyta's daughter, Diana, also became something of a steampunk hero in the series finale, fitted with a robotic, prosthetic arm to replace the limb that was withered after she had demons purged from her body. In addition to her powerful new arm, Diana inherited the shoggoth summoned to defend Atticus, with it fighting off Christina's shoggoth before Diana avenged her cousin by snapping Christina's neck. Hardened by her experiences, Diana has turned into a no-nonsense warrior just like her mother, only with a monstrous companion and steampunk-powered arm.
Letitia Lewis & Atticus' Son, George
And then there's Letitia Lewis, still pregnant with Atticus' son, George. Named for Atticus' beloved uncle, George will become the last living descendant of Hannah, the runaway slave who opposed Titus Braithwaite and stole his mystical Book of Names in the 19th century. George is destined to write a paperback novel that recounts his family history, including his father's death at Christina's hands. While Leti was unable to save Atticus or her half-sister, Ruby Baptiste, from Christina's machinations, she remains the individual most well-versed in the Book of Names' power, especially now that she has cast Hannah's spell to sever white people's connection to magic.
With an entire multiverse of possibility and all of time and space to explore, Lovecraft Country has plenty of room to move forward, even if Atticus' story has come to a definitive end. The characters Tic left behind are much more powerful and accomplished, having weathered unspeakable horrors and emerged hardened by their experiences. While Lovecraft Country has definitively concluded the conflict against the Braithwaites, characters like Ji-Ah prove there are plenty of supernatural terrors beyond the confines of the United States that could cause problems in the future.
Starring Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Aunjanue Ellis, Abbey Lee, Jada Harris, Wunmi Mosaku and Michael K. Williams, Lovecraft Country airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.