Watchmen S1E9: See How They Fly
Man, it’s good to have a finale that actually feels like a finale, you know what I mean?
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Man, it’s good to have a finale that actually feels like a finale, you know what I mean?
It’s time to talk about the Doctor Manhattan of it all, isn’t it?
Damn.
Once in a while, an episode of TV comes along that just punches me in the throat, and then I have to find ways to write about it that aren’t just “buh. Guh? Hurgh”. The last one that did this for me was American Crime Story’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but this week’s episode of Watchmen, This Extraordinary Being, might just be coming for that crown.
Can we take a minute right here up top to appreciate Tim Blake Nelson?
Hong Chau, and her delightfully unsettling trillionaire Lady Trieu, is at the centre of this episode of Watchmen. And, for an episode titled If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own, what a gift her introduction has been.
Laurie Blake is finally in on the joke. But the joke is still on her.
Loss comes with a responsibility – and a legacy.
Context, in Damon Lindelof’s new version of Watchmen, is everything.
The Cutprice Guignol 