Watchmen. Finished the last episode.

Holy fuck, that is some tight writing. Just excellent in all its aspects, even the parts that didn’t quite gel. It said so much so well. This NYT review captured it best.

It’s hard to overstate how risky, how primed for disaster, was the challenge that the creator, Damon Lindelof, signed up for. First, to adapt a notoriously hard-to-adapt subversive superhero comic. Then to lovingly, impishly subvert that subversion, extending the story backward and forwards in time. To do all that while reframing the story as an antiracist pulp thriller, weighty without being pompous or exploitative. Oh — and could it also be electrifying and playful and fun?

Exactly. When it opened with the Tulsa Massacre in the first episode, I thought, “There is no possible way this could go well.”

I was so wrong. What a great show, art.