‘Watchmen’: Damon Lindelof Explains the Whole Squid Thing

Spoilers for Watchmen Season 1, Episode 5 follow below.

If you haven’t watched the episode yet, turn back now! Ever since HBO’s Watchmen began, fans of the graphic novel have been waiting to see if the show would address the whole squid thing.

While Damon Lindelof’s excellent series is set years after the events of the graphic novel Watchmen, those events did still happen in the world of these characters, meaning on November 2, 1985, a giant squid plopped down in the middle of New York and killed a whole lotta people.

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