Abar-ation

What’s your favorite episode of TV from 2019?

“A God Walks Into Abar” from Watchmen is my pick. Explores the nature and mystery of causality, of memory, of stories and where they come from and why we tell them. By collapsing time it shows that the past is ever-present, and that the future is built from that, inexorably.

With all that, it still somehow manages to explore our fixation on identity over humanity, how we might get past that, and how to begin thinking about the unspeakable racial trauma of our past.

And it manages to be funny, too. Highly recommended.