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.
