As the series goes on, I am genuinely amazed and astounded by what unfolds; episode five, in particular, stands out to me. I’ve never seen racism portrayed in such a poignant way, it’s extremely clever and a testament to Green’s fantastic adaptation skills of Lovecraft Country which is originally a book.

When we are introduced to Ruby, who is a plus-size woman, we can see that she is the backbone of the family, cleaning up after her sister’s shenanigans. It appears that she’s not given a chance just to exist. Until a white man called William presents her, as he puts it, an “opportunity of a lifetime” – a chance to be a white woman through the power of magic.

This is a perplexing offering at first but in a world where Ruby is stuck working a minimum wage job, ignored by society and even experiencing colourism within her own community, perhaps the prospect of white privilege isn’t so bad to her.

Ruby looks physically exhausted as she tells William that being Black feels like a “rat race at the finish line… but if I was in your skin I wouldn’t even have to run”. And she’s right. When she transforms into a slim white woman, she accidentally bumps into a Black boy. The police show up immediately and without hesitation accuse him of molesting her. Ruby wants to run away but quickly puts her hands up and so does the little boy, an action that Black people are so accustomed to – the Black Lives Matter symbol “hands up, don’t shoot” is upsettingly familiar to all of us now. The officers comfort her instantly, “Let’s get you somewhere safe, madam,” they say.

Lovecraft Country: “Why I find the show's depiction of white privilege chillingly accurate”