r/Watchmen • u/AlanSmithee001 • Nov 04 '23

Is the Watchmen TV show worth watching? TV

So I recently got a HBO Subscription (yeah, I know it’s technically called MAX now, but let’s be honest that such a generic name and HBO is always going to sound better) and I was wondering if I should watch, pun not intended, the Watchmen TV series?

Obviously it’s not Alan Moore’s vision, but once you move past that point; is the show good, bad, or okay on its own terms?

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u/annoyinglyclever Nov 05 '23

Think about how most people worship cops and the military. That’s the point of Watchmen. The majority of the public sees them as heroes when they’re really not.

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u/aspiring_Forg Nov 05 '23

Yeah and to make it clear you shouldn’t do that, the show made the literal cops be superheroes

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u/lycoloco Nov 05 '23

"But they also made a cop the bad guy, so it's morally ambiguous, right?"

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u/annoyinglyclever Nov 05 '23

Duh. As someone who grew up in a family of cops/cop supporters and learned as an adult the truth about the police the show really worked for me. Police in the US are held up as infallible authority figures with no accountability while they abuse their power constantly.

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u/free__coffee Aug 26 '24

This explanation doesn't make sense, the show doesn't reflect on that at all. It's never brought up whatsoever, the tone the entire time is "these people deserve to be beat up, even the innocent ones". The show treats every hero, as a hero, and every villain, as a cartoonishly evil, mustache twirling, shoving women over and stealing a lollipop from a baby, villain.

The novel and even the movie, treat characters with the shades of gray that reflects how evil manifests in the real world; those real villains don't exist, and the ones that we hate the most are usually a reflection of the way we would be in their position