Holy shit! what an ending to an excellent season 1.
What the fudge is this show, the first and second episode made no bloody sense at all, episode 3 will definitely determine if I continue watching this. Right now it's missing a lot of elements that make a good show. Not impressed
This is one of my most anticipated series for this year.
Ffffffffinally...adult superhero shows have arrived
That was a very enjoyable watch. From start to finish. Even despite the fact that I had/have no prior knowledge of the source material. Even though I was clueless from the beginning and remained clueless until six or seven episodes in, every second was immensely enjoyable. But now that it's over, and I've completed watching it, I can't help but feel disappointed at myself for taking as long as I did to finally understand, even if it was just mildly, what was going on. I'm sure this would be so much more enjoyable to watch a second time, and that's saying quite a lot. Of course, I doubt I'll ever get around to it. Like I never do when I say I'll rewatch a season of a show or a show in its entirety. I know there's so many details, information, and references that will raise the level of enjoyment for those deeply familiar with the source material, and deeply invested in the show overall. As someone who's still pretty clueless about everything, really, in regards to the show, even I think the hate directed at this show by certain people is completely and utterly ridiculous. Don't succumb to what those people are saying and not bother giving it a shot as a result. This show is enjoyable for those who have no idea what's going on, and don't have prior knowledge to assist them. And this show is even more enjoyable for those that do.
I wasn't expecting to love it this much when I first started watching. But it was just so clever, and every aspect of it, from the acting, and the direction styles, to the cinematography, and the amazing soundtrack (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross are hard to beat), was just so beautifully and precisely crafted to serve the story. The writing in this show genuinely excellent, and often multilayered in its delivery - in particular "She Was Killed By Space Junk", and "A God Walks Into Abar" are especially magnificent.
If you aren't familiar with the Watchmen universe on some level, then it's true, you'll miss some of the references and double meanings that really elevate the show. However I do also think that it's possible to watch it without any prior knowledge, as the show throws everyone into the deep end - fans and newcomers alike, and reveals the state of the world and the characters that occupy it in small increments. If there's something that the audience needs to know, you just have to have a little patience, and a healthy dose of curiosity, and trust that the writers will reveal the necessary information at the right moment. But it's worth sticking around for.
That said, it probably won't be for everyone, and there will undoubtedly be people who find some aspects of it offensive. And that's fair enough. But I will say that while the show is often unflinching in its delivery, it rarely feels gratuitous.
It's true, I'm firmly in the contingent of those who enjoy this type of story, and I'd been looking forward to watching this for a while, but the quality of Watchmen took me by surprise (and I can be quite critical of these things). The story is peculiar (sometimes downright bizarre), and delightful, and fast paced (but then also occasionally meandering), and often unsettling. But providing you like your stories a little weird, there's plenty to stick around for, and Watchmen has some of the best writing I've ever seen in television. I can't recommend it enough.
garbage don't waste your time
Loved every second of it.
Well .. I will stop watching it after 4 episodes
Really? It is very boring show .. I cant imagine this show is producted by HBO .. Garbage
Watched the first episode of this show, and it was very difficult to follow, very scattered and almost made no sense most of the time. Really weird cross between a spaghetti western, black / white warring set in our time. Too weird for me.
Slept many times while watching it..
It is a really WEIRD show. Wouldn't watch it again.
While taking a break from the emotional turmoil of real-world racial injustice, I finally sat down to binge this. The most timely story we've had in quite awhile, damn. Regina King is superb! Certainly deviates from Alan Moore's source material, and the mess that was the feature film. But the original production that is left is refreshing, historical, prescient, self-aware, and quite necessary. I enjoyed the drama and was grateful for the message. Can't believe it won't be renewed, HBO fucked up on that.
I wanted to finish the season before rating it. I honestly thought the SJW agenda in it was a satire. After watching the whole season, it is not. They are seriously producing this. It has absolutely nothing to do with Watchmen and if you liked the movie or the comic, I'd recommend to not waste time on this garbage.
First 5 episodes were tedious to get through, but after that the shows began to be a lot more interesting. I hate very slow beginnings.
Overall rating: not bad 7/10
It gets better and better.. Just wow.. Amazing and mesmerizing. Regina has done a great job. Let's see how the last 2 episodes handle the load.. I'm loving it so far.
What a pill of shit this was. Why they call it watchmen ? Why they give license to all the fucking incapable of hollywood
Overrated and hyped
Don't waste your time.
Movie was much better.
FUCK Alan Moore and all the other pretentious assholes shitting on this legend. Worth every second and then some.
Exceptional in every way; thematically rich, aesthetically breathtaking, and emotionally devastating
Watchmen is an exceptionally good show. By default, of course, there will be fans of the comic who'll dislike it on principle. There will also be those who accuse it of pandering to a liberal PC agenda (look at the negative (and frankly, hilarious) review bombing on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes), and there'll be those who simply don't like the idea of a Watchman TV show with a black woman at its centre. Make no mistake, however, this show has been put together by people who know, appreciate, love, and understand the comic. Thematically complex, aesthetically breathtaking, brilliantly acted, Watchmen is an exceptional piece of television.
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A politically charged superhero show that is brave and has something to say.
Idk. Superhero stuff generally just loses my interest after a few episodes. Very few exceptions.
I only actually enjoyed 3 of the 9 episodes of this show. The rest, despite having maybe a couple of good moments, were mainly snoozefests in my opinion. I really didn't care for a lot of the characters or for most of the plotlines. Jeremy Irons and his scenes definitely stole the show (for me at least). All that being said, the final two episodes were utterly fantastic, and I was glad to have suffered through everything else just to get to those episodes. Lastly, I'd like to add that my opinions here are from someone who has never had any experience with any other Watchmen content in any form.
Okay, i have watched this show. Now I understand why this show is canceled. I have expected something else, but not this. I haven’t see this this high level of shit coming.
It's not bad; but it's really style over substance. The original comic is great but there's little to no reason for police officers to come up with characters like this. How do they go to work - do they all have fake bakeries?
wtf, she doesn't make a scrambled egg and give it to her kids hahahaha what an idiot.
writers really needs to cut like 60% of their dialog.
Loved this take on Watchmen. I thought it was such a fitting both homage and sequel to the original story. It was told in such an engaging and interesting way. I absolutely loved that Veidt gets arrested for killing all those people 20 years ago, and that Dr Manhattan's power, if it gets transferred at all, is going to a black woman. Such lovely poetic justice.
My only niggle is the character of Dr Manhattan - such an overpowered character cripples the logic of your story and creates a lot of circular loops that I find to be narratively unsatisfying.
What an amazing show! Inventive, brave, incredibly cinematic, full of surprises, perfectly enjoyable for people who don't know Watchmen but so much deeper for the fans, great acting, great direction, smart writing that has faith in the intelligence of the viewers... simply great. Also, episode 8 is unbelievably good.
How the heck is no one talking about the great dark soundtracks of this show. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross at their best! Had to stop watching multiple times and listen to the track on youtube in loop.
It is confusing, excellently WTFing and I love it!
As someone who knows literally nothing about Watchmen (minus seeing the movie all those years ago), I found my self saying "Uh wtf just happened?" about 20 times. I really hope this show explains all the randomness soon. ...Why was it raining squid?
Overall, it was very entertaining, though.
That one episode is enough for me to drop it, normally I give even the worst shows 2-3 episodes. Too many other, good, entertaining stuff to watch.
I was very enthused about this once I heard it was Lindlehoff at the helm. The Leftovers is one of my all time favorites, and this series promises to be a deep dive thematically with him at the helm. The series opener is as smart and interesting as I expected, but I was happy to see that it delivers on the action elements, as well. Very solid beginning - I'm psyched to see where it goes.
I was not prepared for this show to likely become the thing I'm most psyched about in this surrounding two years; and yet here I am, witnessing all signs pointing to the rest of the season living up to that honor.
This was soo much better than the poor trailer for it originally had me expecting. Yes, I later learned more information — that Damon Lindelof, of LOST and The Leftovers, was behind it — eventually getting me more interested; but I certainly wasn't confident, given the trailer.
This has me remembering how good the movie actually was... I kind of lost track of my memories of how intense it was and how involved it's last act was...
Anywho, on to the real reason I had to post something.. Timepoint 59 mins and 59 seconds in the episode is what finally gave me what I was truly waiting to validate: that there was no way that the soundtrack could be so NIN without actually being NIN / Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross.
10/10.
I think this will be tough to get into for those who haven't seen the movie or read the series. I did both, but I still had to read through some recaps after each episode to make sure I knew what was going on. Basically, it just won't hand you much in the way of exposition.
If you can invest the brain effort to keep track of the story though, I think it's worth it. In terms of superhero shows, it's much more similar to The Boys than any of the Marvel/DC stuff out right now: it's more mystery/suspense over the long term than episodic action.
Regina King is fantastic.
THANK GOD THIS SHIT GOT CANCELLED. FINALLY JUSTICE AND COMMON SENSE PREVAILS. ABOUT TIME SOMETHING THAT NEEDED CANCELLING GETS CANCELLED. BYE NOW.....
A woke rape of the Watchmen universe
Stellar writing, stellar cast and a stellar remix/adaptation! This is amongst the best new shows of 2019.
Wounds need air.
Fantastic show
Surprised, very surprised. Right away watching this 5 years in the future, I know it's only 1 season and assume the ending will suck. A cliffhanger probably, leaving me wanting more and wrapping up almost nothing. I still however took the leap and watched it.
Boy was I mistaken. I don't know if they knew beforehand that the show was going to be a one and done season. If not? Masterful writing either way. It ends beautifully, an amazing wrap up that many shows absolutely fail at accomplishing.
Genuinely happy I watched this.
When the producer of this show tried to contact Alan Moore about this show, he was in no uncertain terms, told to f off and no one from HBO should ever attempt to contact Moore ever again because of how utterly disrespectful and destructive they had been of Moore's masterpiece. There are plenty of garbage shows out there. This one is nuclear waste.
This series is utterly confusing. Perhaps because I haven't seen/read anything from this before. :person_shrugging: At least it's short. (and I simulwatched it with a group of friends which is always better!)
Very good show, hooked from the first episode. It made me go back and re-watch the movie.
Probably not worth re-watching ever.
Watchmen is entertaining all the way through. It makes you think about the present and history of the US at times. It has its flaws, but it works very well as an intriguing miniseries and has a perfect ending.
Some major plot twists here which I didn't see coming, great acting & directing
you can see lindelof challenging himself at every step. everything he's written up to this becomes natural part of it, building an unprecedented universe of his own where his unmistakeable touches fuse with the vision of everyone working on any individual project or aspect of a project, which only in his case makes me feel better about my blanket disregarding of directors and DP's (despite putting in work) when it comes to tv. (word to composer too, he got another one.)
he's god pulling the strings, and i don't know of any other TV or Film writer who has internalized this to such a degree, on such a refined scale. to brasenly hop right back on his bullshit coming from a show that was intended as reconciliation for the show previous, (which it succeeded at!) full steam ahead right back into unbridled indulgement. all under the same coherent thematic umbrella.
this is a :asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:black superhero tv show:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:!
on hbo!
centering around a whole race war!
regina king is born IN F:pound_symbol::pound_symbol:KING :asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:VIETNAM:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: and ends it all on her own john wick.
:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:hong chau:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:, vietnam, petite lady with LONG D:asterisk_symbol:CK
post netflix disillusionment aside, tv is still very much the best it's ever been right now, allowing shit like this to escalate to where it can actually become a thing that exists, when The Leftovers for all its acclaim was flirting with cancellation for its whole run. these execs are stans now.
you can't heal under a mask angela
regina king for best actress. & i'm talking lifetime achievement, cuz this aint just about theatrics
canceled seriously.. what the hell is wrong with you people.
so it ended only after one season?
This could be a good show if you could see what's going on, turn on a few more lights!
Mixed feelings on the first episode. It's not bad. Hope it goes somewhere cool, but kind of weirdly pessimistic.
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A W E S O M E!