Tag: Watchmen
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How ‘Watchmen’ Balances Pleasing Comic Book Fans and Newcomers Alike
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel Watchmen is a dense and complex work. When the HBO adaptation was announced, the biggest question would be how closely it would follow the graphic novel, and whether you needed to read it beforehand. The truth is, you can argue both for and against reading the graphic…
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‘Watchmen’ Shifts Its Focus to Lady Trieu, Who May Be More Dangerous Than Veidt Ever Was
This week’s Watchmen episode, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own” nearly threw me for a loop. It took me a while to figure out what the big connection was this episode, and it all starts with those eggs. This episode gave us some major keys to figuring out how this series is…
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‘Watchmen’ Says That “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own”
After three stellar episodes in a row, Watchmen stumbles ever so slightly with episode four, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own.” That’s not to say this episode is bad. It’s just the first episode we’ve encountered that feels like, well…filler. Almost everything that happens this week is meant to set up something…
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‘Watchmen’ Guide, Week 4: Questions We Have After “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own”
Much like poor, stranded Adrian Veidt on his little wooden boat, I too pull theories out of the murky depths only to toss them back like discarded clone babies when they turn out to be mostly, if not completely wrong. Four episodes down and Watchmen remains an impenetrable mystery box filled with deity dildos and…
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‘Watchmen’ Review: Hong Chau Breaks Some Eggs in an Enthralling Episode 4 — Spoilers
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Watchmen” Episode 4, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own.”]Coded language, deceptive truths, and a general aura of mystery dominate the fourth episode of HBO’s “Watchmen,” an altogether perfect thematic drive for a story framed around a false-fronting billionaire. Lady Trieu (played with nuanced tenacity…
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‘Watchmen’ Star Regina King on Developing Sister Knight with Damon Lindelof & Why She Signed on
From show creator Damon Lindelof and based on the iconic graphic novel co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, the HBO drama series Watchmen is set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws and the police conceal their identities behind masks to protect themselves from a terrorist organization, known as the Seventh…
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Superhero Bits: ‘The Boys’ Season 2 Arriving in 2020, ‘Ironheart’ and ‘Thunderbolts’ Rumors & More
Is Tom King working on some kind of secret Watchmen project? When will the second season of The Boys arrive on Amazon? When will the series finale of Arrow be airing? Will Ironheart and Thunderbolts be getting their own Marvel movies? Does a moment in Avengers: Endgame visually reference Back to the Future Part II?…
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Regina King Talks The Mixing Of Genres In ‘Watchmen’ & The Series’ Social Commentary [Interview]
Recently, Regina King attended the San Francisco “Watchmen” premiere, organized by HBO, presenting Damon Lindelof‘s (“The Leftovers“) bold, highly-acclaimed adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons‘ iconic, comic book series. A thorough departure from the majority of the graphic novels, Lindelof’s envisions a new alternate universe in which white supremacy has seemingly risen to power…
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HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Everything You Need to Know About Damon Lindelof’s Take On the Classic Graphic Novel
After “The Leftovers’” series finale in 2017, there were a lot of questions about what Damon Lindelof’s next TV project would be. Prior to “The Leftovers,” he’d done “Lost,” a series that’s finale had received—and to this day, still receives—a far different response than the universally-praised conclusion to the later series. But with the goodwill…
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HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ May Only Be One Season, Damon Lindelof Suggests [New York Comic-Con 2019]
Tick-tock. Time is of the essence for Damon Lindelof‘s upcoming Watchmen series, which continues the story of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons‘ groundbreaking 1986 graphic novel. Set in modern day, the HBO Watchmen series imagines what would happen in the aftermath of the world-shattering event at the end of the original graphic novel. Maybe Robert…