Series Details & Credits
| HBO | Release Date: October 20, 2019 |
Summary:
The Damon Lindelof series based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel of the same name is set in an alternative 2019, where there is no Internet, Robert Redford is president (28 years and counting), and the police wear masks to protect their identities.
Genre(s):
Drama, Action & Adventure
Recent Episodes
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S1:E3. She Was Killed by Space Junk
Air Date: November 3, 2019
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S1:E2. Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Air Date: October 28, 2019
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S1:E1. It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice
Air Date: October 20, 2019
Positive:
33
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
IndieWire
Oct 15, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The series’ scope is astonishing given its subject matter, and even more so given its relentless entertainment value. Through six episodes, “Watchmen” has already provided a bounty of intelligent theories to study and debate, but it’s designed to be one helluva good time, as well.
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Oct 17, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Oct 15, 2019
Oct 29, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
If you’ve never read the comics or you didn’t see the movie, some of the references are going to fly by unnoticed, and it’s going to be a challenge to keep up with all the new developments without knowing about the past events that led to all of this. Still, regardless of your depth of knowledge about this universe, certain episodes stand alone as strikingly effective set pieces.
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Oct 15, 2019
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Jun 11, 2020
5 of 10 users found this helpful55
Feb 12, 2020
It’s amazing, gripping, wild and exciting. I love how it isn’t a direct adaptation of the comics but a continuation. The fact that it sends the incels sobbing into their fleshlights is just a bonus.
10 of 14 users found this helpful104
Oct 20, 2019
37 of 105 users found this helpful3768
Nov 16, 2019
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
4 of 13 users found this helpful49
Oct 22, 2019
This is not Watchmen. This is bad political propaganda. Thanks, I'm not hungry. One point for music.
46 of 81 users found this helpful4635
Jan 29, 2022
Stay away. I see why it was cancelled after a season. How can you take something as beautiful and perfectly crafted as the Watchmen story line and turn it into such woke tripe.
0 of 5 users found this helpful05
Oct 22, 2019
Unfortunately this TV series has nothing to do with the watchmen, and it's sad. :(
37 of 69 users found this helpful3732
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: October 20, 2019
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S1:E3. She Was Killed by Space Junk
Air Date: November 3, 2019
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S1:E2. Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Air Date: October 28, 2019
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S1:E1. It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice
Air Date: October 20, 2019
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Season 1 Overview