Her gaze lingers on his empty seat at the dinner table, and she’s upset when she learns Atticus will no longer be staying over to keep them company. We know she wanted to do some of the travelling, and she deserves to. We know that she has a knack for astronomy-we’ve seen Dee sketch her photo with a telescope, and she discussed stargazing on the phone with George. What might the characters’ worlds look like without George? We’ve learned that not only does Hippolyta copyedit for The Safe Negro Travel Guide, she also does most of the behind-the-scenes work: typing up entries based off of George’s travel.
As she says, “something doesn’t feel right.” The unknown is haunting her. She senses something more complicated happened than George being shot by a sheriff. But Hippolyta is smarter than they’re giving her credit for. But how can they explain what happened back in Ardham when they aren’t even processing it themselves? The three have avoided each other since George’s funeral. It’s frustrating to watch Montrose, Atticus, and Leti lie by omission. She promptly buys a new copy, but she’s in turmoil: she knows she’s not been given the whole story. We see her holding onto George’s copy of Dracula, his favorite book, before she begins ripping out the pages. Hippolyta is not only mourning the death of her husband, but she’s angry about the shifting world around her, too. It’s been three weeks since George’s funeral and the characters are all feeling his absence. So thankfully, Atticus doesn’t question Leti or her sanity-he simply says, ever so gently, “Walk me through it.” He’s a good friend to Letitia in this moment, and it’s also in service of the plot-similar to last week, this obstacle must be overcome by the episode’s end. After “Whitey’s on the Moon,” I’m on board for almost any expansion of the show’s supernatural logic. Ghosts of the haunting kind are a new addition to the world that the audience has already had to accept as possible by the time Letitia utters their existence. Yes, we had monsters, and yes, we had wizards trying to open up doors to Eden-but we didn’t have specters of this manner.
What’s interesting is that if we were to rewind the clock on Lovecraft Country’s story just an hour, back in Ardham, this type of horror was not necessarily a given within the show’s world. “My house is haunted.” Letitia delivers this news to Atticus late into the episode with a weary matter-of-factness that’s accrued over the last month of her life.
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