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‘Watchmen’ Season 2: HBO Boss Says It’s “Hard To Imagine Somebody Else Doing It” Other Than Lindelof

January 16, 2020 2:43 pm

Coming in right at the end of the year, HBO’s “Watchmen” not only surprised us by actually being a pretty good sequel to one of the most acclaimed comic book series of all time, but it was one of the best TV s...

‘Watchmen’s’ Ending Was An Awe-Inspiring Mic Drop, Which Is Why There Shouldn’t Be A 2nd Season

Matthew Monagle

December 18, 2019 1:13 pm

Features, Television

“Who watches the Watchmen?” That phrase, so essential to the original comic book series, is noticeably absent from HBO’s adaptation/sequel/"remix" of Alan Moore’s "Watchmen." Once, the idea was that history’s m...

‘Watchmen’: Damon Lindelof Says He Doesn’t Have “A Really Cool Idea And A Justification” For Season 2…Yet

Charles Barfield

December 16, 2019 10:29 am

News, Television

Last night, the first season of HBO’s “Watchmen” reached its stunning conclusion. If you read my review of the series, you know that I am a big fan of what Damon Lindelof and the rest of the writers, actors, an...

#ReleaseTheSynderCut: Damon Lindelof Teases That He’s Seen It As ‘Justice League’ Actors Gal Gadot & Ben Affleck Show Their Support

Charles Barfield

November 18, 2019 10:50 am

News

For two years, we’ve been tracking the progress of the mythical “Snyder Cut” of the Warner Bros. superhero film “Justice League.” The critical and box office disappointment has never sat right with many fans, w...

‘Watchmen’: Damon Lindelof’s Confounding & Brilliant Riff On Alan Moore’s Ideas Of Superheroes, Conspiracy Theories & Questionable Morality [Review]

Charles Barfield

October 25, 2019 3:44 pm

Features, News, Reviews, Television

A seminal, sprawling and dense comic book tome about conspiracies, vigilantism, and the ends-justifies-the-means morality, Alan Moore's complex "Watchmen" (1986/'87) graphic novel—a deconstructive exploration o...

‘Watchmen’ EP & Director Nicole Kassell On Building A Post-Squid World [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

October 18, 2019 9:52 am

Awards Campaign, Features, Interviews, News, Television

Nicole Kassell may not be the first director you'd think of to helm the first two episodes of the HBO series "Watchmen," but that's probably why she was the right choice. Best known on the film side for her di...

Damon Lindelof Says Some Marvel Films Are Cinema: “To Put All Marvel Movies In The Same Box Doesn’t Seem Fair”

Charles Barfield

October 16, 2019 3:04 pm

News

If there’s one person that can serve as the final arbiter of good taste and quality cinema, it’s writer Damon Lindelof. Okay, that might be a little sarcastic, but the truth is that Lindelof has been one of the...

Early ‘Watchmen’ Reviews Reveal Damon Lindelof Is At Least Moderately Successful In Making A Worthy Sequel

Charles Barfield

October 15, 2019 11:44 am

News, Television

Of all the TV series debuting this fall, you’d be hard-pressed to find one that had as much discussion surrounding its very existence than “Watchmen.” Based on the absolutely classic comic book story from the ‘...

Damon Lindelof Says HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Was Written To Run Only One Season

Charles Barfield

October 7, 2019 3:08 pm

News, Television

Networks don’t sit there and greenlight TV series based on superhero properties unless they see it as a potential franchise. Look at CW, for example. Building off the success of “Arrow,” the network has created...

Damon Lindelof Says HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Had To Be A Sequel To Avoid Being The Equivalent Of “A Really Good Cover Band”

Charles Barfield

September 20, 2019 1:51 pm

News, Television

Despite having a comic book foundation of the most critically-acclaimed superhero story of all time, there are plenty of fans that are incredibly apprehensive about Damon Lindelof’s upcoming HBO series, “Watchm...

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