Tag: Doctor Manhattan
REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 9, “See How They Fly”
AlexGherzo | Dec 16, 2019 | 0
HBO’s official description of “See How They Fly,” the Watchmen season (series?) finale, highlights one of the larger sticking points with the sequel series: “Everything ends. For real this time.” In trying to carve out a reason for itself to exist, Watchmen the show undermines the original...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 8 “A God Walks into Abar”
AlexGherzo | Dec 10, 2019 | 0
“A God Walks into Abar” fills in plenty of Watchmen’s blanks, particularly the ones last week’s episode created when it revealed that Angela’s husband Cal is actually Doctor Manhattan. There are still elements that don’t make sense, and Angela remains a flat character, but it’s an ente...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 7 “An Almost Religious Awe”
AlexGherzo | Dec 2, 2019 | 0
If nothing else, “An Almost Religious Awe” assures us that Watchmen is completely off its rocker. This show is bugnuts crazy, and while I imagine Damon Lindelof and the rest of the people behind it think making everything about race is a shortcut to gravitas and intellectualism, the lunacy and s...
Read MoreComic-Con 2019: Watchmen Trailer Never Compromises
AlexGherzo | Jul 21, 2019 | 0
The Minutemen are striking again as HBO unveiled a trailer for Watchmen, their new show based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel, at Comic-Con this weekend. Premiering in October, the series from Damon Lindelof stars Jeremy Irons, Regina King, Don Johnson, Louis Gossett Jr., and Tim B...
Read MoreWatchmen: Embracing a Darker Superhero Evolution
brettstevens | Mar 4, 2019 | 0
1978’s Superman: The Movie has stood as a symbol for the archetype of what people felt a superhero was supposed to be: save the citizens, beat the villain, stand tall as a guardian of righteousness. But somewhere along the line, perhaps having its roots ironically embedded into the cynicism of...
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