• funkpandemic@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I keep telling people to watch the HBO show from 2019. It has some obvious flaws but Regina King is always fire and IMO episode 6 is still some of the best TV I’ve seen.

    It also came out the year before the BLM protests of 2020 and damn was the subject matter relevant. Almost prescient.

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        11 months ago

        Great show, but as a Tulsan the show was hard to watch because it’s a nice city now, but still with some racial tensions. The Tulsa Race Riots were depicted pretty fairly; it was an absolutely heinous event in American history that gets little attention even here.

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      11 months ago

      It’s a good show but it feels like it has barely anything to do with Watchmen. The main villain was so weak compared to what the comic was going for, and the main character is a raging asshole while the show acts like we’re supposed to be sympathetic to her.

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        11 months ago

        the main character is a raging asshole while the show acts like we’re supposed to be sympathetic to her.

        So… like the comic?

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          11 months ago

          That’s what they were going for, but missed completely. In the series it feels like she gets rewarded for being that way, the ending especially sucked.

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            11 months ago

            rewarded

            You are assuming a “just world” framework that is explicitly rejected by the work.

            ending especially sucked.

            I thought it was very tastefully done. But that’s obviously a matter of taste.

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      11 months ago

      I found that show by accident and decided to watch. WOW. It was great.

      Too bad there’s only one season, but oh well. It works if you think of it as a miniseries.

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      11 months ago

      Watchman is a franchise with an intense blessing when so many seem cursed. The movie was made by someone who didn’t understand the comic at all and it turned out fantastically, despite that. Easily the best Snyder product, and I do generally like his goofy ass.

      Then, over a decade later, it has a weird HBO TV show, made by the creator/writer of Lost, someone who did at least understand very well the comics. But someone with a controversial track record, and making a show entirely out of original material. And it SLAPS. I tend to market it as “what if lost was rated R, 1 season long, and perfect”. Still got my fingers crossed for another season, but it doesn’t need it at all.

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        11 months ago

        The Leftovers was also great. Lost had an eh ending, but I wish I could watch Watchmen, The Leftovers, and Lost all over again for the first time. I’m definitely a Lindelof fan.

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      11 months ago

      I like that the series came out when the Doomsday Clock comic came out. They both feature a different continuation of Doctor Manhattan’s story.