The Watchmen movie is one of my all time favorite movies, containing complex themes and morally conflicted characters. The show lacks everything that made the movie a masterpiece. While the movie is a moral dilemma hiding within a superhero movie, the show is a superhero TV show hiding within a show that claims to have interesting ideas. Racists are bad people; such an interesting idea.
The first two episodes start off strong, balancing the weird sci-fi superhero elements with the racially driven drama. After that it just goes downhill. The plot twist makes very little logical sense, the villains of the show are some of the least interesting villains I've ever come across, and even the twist villain is boring and predictable. In the end, the whole point of the show is that racism is bad, and time travel superpowers are weird to think about.
4.3/10. Don't watch it unless you have a lot of time on your hands and want to watch a plotless but exciting superhero show.
The first two episodes start off strong, balancing the weird sci-fi superhero elements with the racially driven drama. After that it just goes downhill. The plot twist makes very little logical sense, the villains of the show are some of the least interesting villains I've ever come across, and even the twist villain is boring and predictable. In the end, the whole point of the show is that racism is bad, and time travel superpowers are weird to think about.
4.3/10. Don't watch it unless you have a lot of time on your hands and want to watch a plotless but exciting superhero show.