Watchmen (2019)

Ambitious, imaginative, provocative and engrossing. ... A triumph of style and substance, it never sacrifices pace for preaching or pontificating. At least in the first six episodes made available to critics, it remains every bit as entertaining as it is intriguing.

This is breathtaking, ambitious television that only gets richer with each subsequent episode.

Told through a complex and riveting mystery, a murder investigation is at the center of “Watchmen’s” first season. It’s up to Angela Abar/Sister Night to do the unraveling. King balances her divergent roles as mother, wife, friend and vigilante with a mix of grace, sincere affection and ferocity. ... After an unevenly paced premiere episode, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of this new series. But after episode two I was all in.

Relentlessly entertaining, odd and creative... Watchmen is a tour-de-force, no doubt, but there's a landing that definitely needs to be stuck.

He’s packing a punch. Watchmen is a show that will be scoured for clues about yet-to-be-birthed fan theories, even as it’s an intrinsic provocation of the sorts of genre fans who were angered by Star Wars centering women and people of color, or outraged by the suggestion that certain superheroes, James Bond, or Hermione Granger might be black. It’s not just that Watchmen’s main character is a black woman, it’s how the new show reframes what came before it.

You may not always be sure what you're watching, but good luck taking your eyes off Watchmen. [28 Oct - 10 Nov 2019, p.8]

To tackle the meanness and violence of history in a truly serious way — with superheroes or with mere magnificently brave mortals telling the story — demands a focus “Watchmen” simply lacks, and attempts to make up for with a tone of increasing dudgeon. What “Watchmen” sets out to do, taking the opportunity of an artwork perceived as unadaptable and writing a whole new story, is admirable. But both that original artwork and, more crucially, this story deserve better.

The critics got this one right. It's bold, innovative, creative and brilliant. Highly recommended.

I thought it was ok. As I understand for those who are comic fans of original Watchmen they hated it as this twisted the story, for me as someone watching who never have read those comics, only seen movie, I thought it was ok, nothing impressive.

I had high hopes for this one, but after 5 episodes I'm sure they're leeching out of original Watchmen popularity. I mean, the show is sometimes surprising and make you curious what happens next, but not in a sense that you care about it. Good for killing time but you wouldn't notice if it suddenly ends.

Wasted potential. I wasn't going to watch this at first because it just seemed overall uninteresting at first but after a few friends recommended it, I decided to give it a shot. While I do enjoy a few aspect and characters, specifically Looking Glass was cool. The show is too embedded in modern messages to take most of the dialogue and storylines seriously. A lot of the characters make really dumb decisions that they never would've done in the graphic novel.

I can't In good conscious give this anything other than a negative score. It got a few pints for the cinematography which was good. But this is nothing like the movie, or comics. Does not have the same charecters, themes, not in the same time..... This just isn't Watchmen.