People can say what they want about HBOS Watchmen or Lovecraft Country, but you have to give em credit for doing the one thing most modern and/or woke media set in historical times seem to be afraid of doing. Eschewing the politically correct history trope and showing how people of colour & other minorities were actually treated before the civil-rights movement. Seriously, look at most modern media set in the past (The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Beauty & the Beast remake, Lady And The Tramp remake, Spirit Riding Free, Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2, the various recent BBC period dramas etc), not only do many of them feature black people in times & places where they were nonexistent, said black people are treated no differently from the white people, even having interacial relationships without anyone batting an eye (The Nutcracker and the Four Realms & The Lady And The Tramp remake). HBOS Watchmen and Lovecraft Country on the other hand do nicely avert those tropes (even if it is to push an agenda) and I can respect them for doing that.
