Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own.
Stars: Regina King, Yahya AbdulMateen II and Tom Mison
Full Cast: Sara Vickers, Jeremy Irons, Andrew Howard, Louis Gossett Jr., Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Dylan Schombing, James Wolk, Lily Rose Smith, Adelynn Spoon, Danny Boyd Jr., Frances Fisher
Episode Guide
Season 1
December 15, 2019Episode 9 See How They Fly
December 8, 2019Episode 8 A God Walks into Abar
December 1, 2019Episode 7 An Almost Religious Awe
November 24, 2019Episode 6 This Extraordinary Being
November 17, 2019Episode 5 Little Fear of Lightning
November 10, 2019Episode 4 If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own
November 3, 2019Episode 3 She Was Killed by Space Junk
October 27, 2019Episode 2 Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
October 20, 2019Episode 1 It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice
Best Watchmen Episodes
Top 20 (Ranked)
December 8, 2019
9.5 8807 votesS1E8 A God Walks into Abar
9.5 8807 votesS1E8 A God Walks into Abar November 24, 20199.2 8468 votesS1E6 This Extraordinary Being
9.2 8468 votesS1E6 This Extraordinary Being November 17, 20199.0 7125 votesS1E5 Little Fear of Lightning
9.0 7125 votesS1E5 Little Fear of Lightning December 1, 20199.0 6588 votesS1E7 An Almost Religious Awe
9.0 6588 votesS1E7 An Almost Religious Awe December 15, 20198.8 6050 votesS1E9 See How They Fly
8.8 6050 votesS1E9 See How They Fly November 3, 20198.5 6958 votesS1E3 She Was Killed by Space Junk
8.5 6958 votesS1E3 She Was Killed by Space Junk October 20, 20198.0 9490 votesS1E1 It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice
8.0 9490 votesS1E1 It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice October 27, 20198.0 7308 votesS1E2 Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
8.0 7308 votesS1E2 Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship November 10, 20198.0 6088 votesS1E4 If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own
8.0 6088 votesS1E4 If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own Watchmen Trailer
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User Reviews
Watchseries; Don't let the whiny reviews stop you from watching a great series and I read the comic. Damon Lindelof did a great job with this series. I swear people are always looking for something to be offended by. The characters are good and the storyline is good. Watch the show for yourself and stop reading reviews from people who are easily triggered. There was nothing cliche about Watchmen. Trolls really need to be prevented from making reviews because their reviews all sound the same.
Don't let the whiny reviews stop you from watching a great series and I read the comic. Damon Lindelof did a great job with this series. I swear people are always looking for something to be offended by. The characters are good and the storyline is good. Watch the show for yourself and stop reading reviews from people who are easily triggered. There was nothing cliche about Watchmen. Trolls really need to be prevented from making reviews because their reviews all sound the same.
Watchmen watchseries. I really wanted to like it. I'm all about thought provoking shows, and ideas that challenge society. This show feels like it completely missed the entire point of the original graphic novel. The original Watchmen focused on many different political issues that gave it a larger over arching narrative on society. That's absolutely not what this show does. It's way too on the nose and comes off more like pandering to very specific demographic rather then talking about society as a whole and how all of the systems in it are broken and apart of the problem. It felt disjointed. Story elements make no sense. Characters make decisions that make no sense. Things that should easily be explained to progress the story left the myself and people who I watched this with more confused then engaged. It feels like it takes elements of the original story and misrepresents and misuses them.
Made it through the third episode, then just got tired of being told how bad white people are. If there was a point to all of this, I could not care enough to hang around and find out what it was. I can honestly say this is the worst example of reverse racism I've come across since M.A.N.T.I.S. Huge disappointment.
What an absolute disgrace to the Watchman name.
The comics and 2009 movie did such a fantastic job focusing on big picture issues, tackling the tense geopolitical climate during the Nixon administration, deep philosophies such as the meaning of life and the people's right to know vs. international peace.
The HBO television show stripes away all that and instead focuses solely on race. The white supremacists have adopted the Rorschach mask as their symbol (which is incredibly misguided as that's not what he stood for), and the mask wearing police hunt down these white supremacists with a shoot first ask questions later mentality, using torture on suspects without batting an eye.
No doubt supporters of the show will declare that haters are either too dumb to understand the show's little mysteries or are just plain racists if they dislike the show.
If Hollywood wants to create a race-baiting radically liberal television show, by all means go for it, just please don't call it Watchmen. Add this to the unfortunate miss column for Alan Moore along with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I absolutely love the worldbuilding in this series. But the fundamental ideas were done far better in the sequel comics, this is by far the worst portrayal of Rorschach's legacy compared to Doomsday Clock and Rorschach (comic by King). There's no dissection of his original beliefs, they took a minor fan theory then ran it into the ground so hard it made the 7th Kavalry generic after episode 2.
I think this show would have benefitted from adapting some of the material from the comics, such as the 2nd Rorschach or psychologist's son in Doomsday Clock who was on a similar level of complexity as the original character in terms of backstory and morality.
The majority of the comments here came after one episode. One. Episode. I'm now 4 episodes deep and this story is great. It is timely. It is scary. It's exciting.
Episode 4 starts with a message, "If you don't like the story, write your own."
That is absolutely right.
I have never reviewed a show after four episodes but I traveled to IMDB and saw the rating and felt obligated. This show has acting, cinematography, sountrack, you name it.
It is doing what a good series should and building the story. This show is great. Watch it.