Watchmen

Not only is it an incredibly well-crafted series on all the best fronts of cinematography, story, effects, editing and acting performances, the way it spun the original Watchmen storyline around itself was mesmerizing. New, interesting characters combined with old favorites, and even a few shadows of their ghosts.

The performances by Regina King, Don Johnson, Time Blake Nelson and Yahya Abdul-Mateen III just to name a FEW of the outstanding roles, were award-worthy across the board.

Jeremy Irons, Jean Smart, Hong Chau, Louis Gossett, Jr...these were revelatory performances. Now a weak link among them.

Like a good book, I couldn't put it down and it left me wanting more. If you haven't seen it, you don't know what you're missing. I'm gonna go rewatch the series for a fourth time now.

Promising start, I will definitely come back for the next episode...in fact, pretty sure I ll watch the whole season. I wanna point out the good cinematography...I wasn't expecting to be this good after watching the trailers.

To start off I haven't read the novel which probably make my opinions of this somewhat void. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this show maybe even more than I thought I would. I watched the movie quite a while ago, and I have to say that I liked the series better. For an "outsider" it was at times hard to follow the plot and who was who, but as a whole the story was engaging and suspenseful. The comedic parts here and there were a good balance to the more serious stuff. You wanted to watch the next episode, which is more than you can say about some series. The racial aspect was present like in many shows today, but for me at least not in a way that ruined the experience. Regina King and Yahya Abdul Mateen were the clear cut stars of the cast. Believable acting and good chemistry between them. Also Jean Smart and Jeremy Irons deserve praise for their roles. Usually have a difficult time coping with Irons, but here he's quite alright. The wheels came off a bit in the finale, which was a shame, but it didn't deter the fact that this was a well made show that would have deserved a continuation. At least I would have watched it.

For the folks out there calling this show "Woke" you actually might be a racist. This show is not "Woke"... Charlies Angels was Woke. Dark Fate was Woke... Watchmen is just great storytelling with a diverse cast and poignant, rarely discussed historical topics.

Seriously, did anyone at any point during high school and college ever once bring up Tulsa 1921? No? Yea me neither.

This show isn't preaching at us and I really appreciate. For the first time in what feels like an eternity there is a strong female lead who is believable and doesn't need to tell us she's a strong female lead. She isn't some stupid Fing supermodel who looks cute holding a gun trying to make us believe her 105lb a$$ can beat up a grown man. THAT folks is woke horsesh**.

I haven't seen this many African American actors on one show/film this mainstream since Black Panther. I love it.

Regina King is truly fantastic and I'm so happy shes the face of something so mainstream.

I'm only a few episodes in but im hooked... all I ask is please Damon Lindelof... don't "Lost" us here.

So aparently everyone is trashing this show because of the race issues? Come on people, now taking that aside, this show has really started strong, respecting the characters of the original graphic novel but also introducing new ones, and if you're a big fan of Watchmen, you will love the references, can't wait for the next episode.