The just-released trailer for HBO’s Watchmen uncorks a fascinating world where vigilante justice hides behind both masks and badges. The series is an extension of the famed graphic novel by A…
uncorks a fascinating world where vigilante justice hides behind both masks and badges. The series is an extension of the famed graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons but it is neither an adaptation nor a direct sequel but an unusual revisitation to the world of the original story for a new saga that follows the familiar mythology in unexpected ways. has come up with enough compelling characters and themes that the experiment is worth watching on its own merits.
The trailer shows Don Johnson as Tulsa Police Chief Judd Crawford and Regina King as Tulsa Police Detective Angela Abar, but the two are also active in street justice of a different sort, as menacing masked operatives operating outside the law.
In the graphic novel, masked heroes were outlawed and hunted down. In the new series that history serves as a backdrop for the show’s updated exploration of authority, duplicity, conspiracy, justice, rendition and perception. In the trailer, as scenes of masked mayhem play out, an academic-sounding voice-over offers an empty textbook explanation of the costumed vigilante psyche. “People who wear masks are driven by trauma. They’re obsessed with justice because of some injustice they’ve suffered, ergo masks. To hide the pain.” The image shifts to an skeptical King who corrects the self-satisfied speaker: “I wear the mask to protect myself.” The smug academic glosses over the debate. “Right. From the pain.
The series premieres on HBO on October 20 and the defiantly eclectic cast includes Jeremy Irons, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tom Mison, Hong Chau, Andrew Howard, Jacob Ming-Trent, Dylan Schombing, James Wolk, Frances Fisher and Sara Vickers.
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