TV review: WatchmenHBO
,” the 1980s DC Comics series whose popularity demands adaptation and whose singular vision makes that near-impossible, might be too much itself to bring out the best in any artist. But it has brought out the most in Damon Lindelof.
Our protagonist is Angela Abar , whose role as a Tulsa police detective is her second of three identities; to the public, she’s a retired cop and professional baker, the better to shield her from a growing vigilante movement’s anti-police violence. Some 27 years into the presidency of Robert Redford , society is riven by unrest that necessitates cops wear masks, just as do the white supremacists who pursue them.
The ambition on display here is pleasing and, if not new for Lindelof, then new for “Watchmen”: 2009’s film adaptation, helmed by Zack Snyder, plodded painfully through its story’s beats without any of the source’s dark wit. That film, too, lacked the sense this property at its best evinces, that of the ways individual people are wrecked by history even as they affect meaningful change on it.
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