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  1. Episode 9 See How They Fly
    Watchmen Finale Recap: A Most Worthy Adversary Angela Abar’s origin story reaches its culmination — or does it?
  2. Episode 8 A God Walks Into Abar
    Watchmen Recap: Fate The season’s penultimate episode gives us some time-tripping insight into Angela and Doctor Manhattan’s complicated, unfortunately doomed love story.
  3. Episode 7 An Almost Religious Awe
    Watchmen Recap: Hero’s Journey We get new insight into Angela’s past, Vietnam’s history as the 51st state, and the whereabouts of the most powerful being in the universe.
  4. Episode 6 This Extraordinary Being
    Watchmen Recap: … and Justice for All The series’ bold reimagining of one of Watchmen’s most mysterious figures is a truly singular episode of television.
  5. Episode 5 Little Fear of Lightning
    Watchmen Recap: Mirror Universe A graceful, moving episode gives us a peek behind the mask and into the lonely life of Looking Glass.
  6. Episode 4 If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
    Watchmen Recap: Looks Like We Have Ourselves a Reckoning A series of prickly confrontations charts the weight and ripple effects of the legacies our characters have inherited.
  7. Episode 3 She Was Killed by Space Junk
    Watchmen Recap: The Great Beyond A new antagonist for Angela appears, and she is carrying some baggage.
  8. Episode 2 Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
    Watchmen Recap: The White Night Violence isn’t just felt but inherited in Watchmen, passed down to transform all those in its wake.
  9. Episode 1 It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
    Watchmen Series-Premiere Recap: Watch Over This Boy Welcome to a brave new world.

The Latest Watchmen News

  1. vulture lists
    Every Zack Snyder Movie, Ranked Superheroes, zombies, and space rebels galore.
  2. rip
    Louis Gossett Jr., Oscars’ First Black Supporting Actor Winner, Dead at 87 His role as Fiddler in 1977’s Roots also earned him an Emmy.
  3. false goodbyes
    Thank God, Watchmen Isn’t Leaving Max The show was briefly unavailable due to a “technical glitch.”
  4. vulture festival 2023
    Cord Jefferson Has Thoughts on the Art of a Good Adaptation “You know it when you see it.”
  5. mcu but the 'c' is a 't' for 'tv'
    Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to Dump DC for Marvel Series Wonder Man Isn’t it ionic?
  6. dr. mad-hatin'
    Who Watches the Watchmen? Not Alan Moore Damon Lindelof tried to appease the writer with a Dr. Manhattan–blue apron, which Moore found “embarrassing.”
  7. into it
    Damon Lindelof Knows When to Wrap Up the Party “People don’t want things to end,” says the Lost and Watchmen showrunner. “I do.”
  8. emmys 2020
    Regina King Wears a Breonna Taylor T-Shirt to the 2020 Emmys Both she and Uzo Aduba honored the 26-year-old during their acceptance speeches.
  9. emmys 2020
    Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Dedicates His Emmy to ‘All the Black Women’ In His Life The actor won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series
  10. predictions
    What Will Win and What Should Win at the 2020 Emmys You can bet on these predictions … probably!
  11. you're a winner baby
    Watchmen. Schitt’s Creak Lead the TCA Awards HBO won in six of the 13 categories.
  12. filmmaking
    Looking Back at Watchmen’s Most Extraordinary Episode With Its Director Director Stephen Williams breaks down the delicate balance of technical ambition and emotional clarity that led to “This Extraordinary Being.”
  13. emmy insider
    13 Emmy-Worthy Performances That Shouldn’t Be Overlooked Akili McDowell in David Makes Man, Shira Haas in Unorthodox, Hunter Schafer in Euphoria, and more of the year’s best TV acting.
  14. happy juneteenth
    HBO Is Streaming Watchmen for Free This Juneteenth Weekend Who’s rewatching Watchmen?
  15. awards
    Watch Damon Lindelof and Regina King’s Peabody Acceptance Speech for Watchmen “I have never been more honored in my life to shut the hell up and listen.”
  16. profile
    Hong Chau Doesn’t Need Your Approval “I don’t task myself with changing minds or being understood anymore.”
  17. psa
    In Their Coronavirus PSA, HBO’s Watchmen Cast Asks: Who Washes the Washmen? Oh boy, if you thought those “My Corona” puns were bad …
  18. lube man
    More Watchmen Likely Won’t Happen Without Damon Lindelof and He’s Not Interested We have probably seen the end of Lube Man.
  19. what were the 2010s?
    All Hail the Pop Culture Remix In TV, film, and literature, the 2010s challenged us to reexamine the stories we thought we knew.
  20. easter eggs
    How Watchmen Built Out Its Universe With Peteypedia Loremaster Jeff Jensen walks us through the show’s supplementary materials, from the Doctor Manhattan dildo to Lube Man’s identity.
  21. chat room
    Jean Smart Has Plenty of Ideas for Watchmen Spinoffs “Laurie & Mirror Guy! It’ll be like Cagney & Lacey.”
  22. chat room
    Regina King Would ‘Absolutely’ Sign Up for Watchmen Season Two But only if it’s “at least comparable to this first season, which is going to be really hard to do.”
  23. tv ratings
    Watchmen Is a Solid Hit for HBO, But Will It Return for a Second Season? Based on the ratings, there’s little doubt HBO would love to bring Watchmen back.
  24. close reads
    Watchmen Gave Us All the Answers Did we need them?
  25. easter eggs
    A Guide to Watchmen’s Stealth Easter Eggs The HBO series is packed with subtle background references to the original comic. Here, some of the deepest deep cuts you may have missed.
  26. watchmen
    Let’s Crack Open Watchmen’s Egg Symbolism Eggs have been a key part of Watchmen’s iconography since the first episode, often in a not particularly subtle way.
  27. lube man
    Watchmen Unmasks Lube Man, in Its Own Slippery Way Thank you, Peteypedia, for the tip.
  28. spoilers
    Damon Lindelof Knows Exactly What Happens After Watchmen’s Cliff-hanger Finale “It didn’t feel that ambiguous to me.”
  29. close reads
    Let’s Talk About Watchmen’s Egg-cellent Finale The surprising ties between Angela’s fate and the Beatles song “I Am the Walrus.” No, really!
  30. lingering questions
    12 Lingering Questions From the Watchmen Finale This just wouldn’t be Watchmen if “See How They Fly” wrapped everything up in a neat bow at the end.
  31. lingering questions
    Where Is Lube Man, Watchmen? Plus eight other very important questions we need answered in this week’s finale.
  32. lingering questions
    10 Big Questions From This Week’s Watchmen “A God Walks Into Abar” asks us to consider the world from Doctor Manhattan’s perspective, and boy is it a confusing perspective!
  33. chat room
    How Watchmen’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Learned About the Doctor Manhattan Twist “I said, ‘Oh shit, I’m going to have to get in shape.’”
  34. backstories
    How Watchmen Brought Doctor Manhattan to Life With a Saigon bar, a whole lot of blue makeup, and full-frontal nudity.
  35. lingering questions
    10 Big Questions From This Week’s Watchmen “An Almost Religious Awe” gives us some critical Angela backstory and confirmation of the Kavalry’s plans, but where do we go from here?
  36. spoilers
    How Watchmen Set Up That Big Twist The entire season has been laying the groundwork for a major character reveal. Let’s review the hints we got along the way.
  37. chat room
    Don Johnson Loved Hurling Insults at His Knives Out Co-stars The actor talks Rian Johnson’s new whodunit, Watchmen, and why he wants to revisit Nash Bridges.
  38. watchmen
    In Watchmen’s Clothing, the Past Is Present The HBO series weaves the threads of complex and often painful personal histories throughout its characters’ costume choices.
  39. chat room
    Watchmen’s Jovan Adepo on Playing Young Will Reeves And how he (literally) shared the role with Regina King in a mind-bending episode that reworks Watchmen’s history.
  40. spoilers
    Who Is Hooded Justice? Watchmen Has a Stunning Answer. Watchmen writer Cord Jefferson talks Hooded Justice, generational trauma, and the show’s best episode yet.
  41. lingering questions
    9 Big Questions From This Week’s Watchmen “This Extraordinary Being” gives us a big revelation about Hooded Justice and puts the series’ inciting mystery to bed. Sort of.
  42. close reads
    Watchmen Beautifully Wrestles With Toxic Nostalgia “This Extraordinary Being” is a dizzying exploration of memory and the dangers of failing to see the past for what it was.
  43. lingering questions
    14 Big Questions From This Week’s Watchmen “Little Fear of Lightning” cracks the mystery of Looking Glass, and raises a host of new questions in the process.
  44. chat room
    Watchmen’s Tim Blake Nelson Would Never Drop a Giant Squid on Manhattan “I’m not a utilitarian.”
  45. lingering questions
    10 Big Questions From This Week’s Watchmen “If You Don’t Like My Story Write Your Own” introduces a mysterious new character who raises some new possibilities for where this story is headed.
  46. briefcases
    Why Watchmen Turned Laurie Into a Comedian, and Gave Her That Big Blue Dildo Jean Smart’s FBI agent is a key character from the graphic novel in a very different position.
  47. lingering questions
    12 Big Questions From Watchmen’s Third Episode “She Was Killed By Space Junk” presents us with some major new characters, a mysterious clock, and a very complicated joke. Let’s break it all down.
  48. lingering questions
    Our 18 Biggest Questions About This Week’s Watchmen How did Angela survive the White Night? What happened to her parents? And why does Will keep speaking in riddles?
  49. backstories
    How Watchmen Staged an American Massacre “I was like, My God, how did this happen?”
  50. black oklahoma!
    Watchmen’s Alternate Universe Has a New Spin on Oklahoma! Much like our world’s Sexy Oklahoma!, the series’ all-black production of the famed musical has social commentary on its mind.
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