Yeah the visual motifs are so well thought out thematically... this is so obviously written by people who understand ‘Watchmen’ so deeply in their bones that it never feels a bit like fanfic. This is real artists taking up Moore’s work as a challenge and fucking GOING FOR IT.  It’s bracing to finally see the book…

Metropolis is liberal by 1930s/40s standards but not by 2019 standards. And a lot of liberals by 1930s/1940s standards which includes FDR (which was acknowledged in this episode when Will’s wife said (“You think FDR is gonna do anything? More like Eleanor.”) were like how you correctly said “and certainly most of the…

Oh, and one more thought that just occurred to me: Will is inspired by seeing the story of Superman (brought to us via the American immigrant narrative, as symbolized by the accented newsstand guy whose copy he looks at), thinking it mirrors his own story, but the actual baby cast away from their home planet in this…

Sure felt great watching a black superhero beating up Klan members and racist cops. For Lindelof to make this out of a comic that many right-wingnuts liked (by misunderstanding the text and have been crying and moaning all over the internet about this show “ruined” the comic) is simply amazing.

This is now the second prestige television show in the past year to use “My echo, my shadow and me” by the Ink Spots (the first being Better Call Saul)

I have no adequte words. It’s both an immense relief and a genuine pleasure to see that not only does Damon Lindelof actually seem to UNDERSTAND the original comic, but also that he’s not afraid to go deeper and poke the very foundations of the storytelling that the original comic was riffing on in the first place.…

That had to be one of the most incredibly directed and edited hours of television in recent memory. Stephen Williams can take a bow. The craftsmanship that was constantly on display, most especially in the first 30 minutes had me riveted. The partial sets, the split focus, the jump shots, the framing it was…

I always read Adrian as sort of a clean-cut bon vivant, what with his tendency to give saucy interviews to lifestyle magazines and show off his acrobatic skills on TV. So Irons’s basic affect seemed right to me.

Oxymandius was born in the Mid-Atlantic, and has an accent to match.

I assumed it said “Save Me, Dickheads!”

I took his comment to mean that he’s an idiot.

Monica, going back to the Peter Gregory days, has always been more comfortable being one of the guys than being one of the girls. It helped her survive in an extremely male-dominated industry, but now it’s biting her in the ass.

Amanda Crew really sold the hell out of that. Monica and Richard both have a look when they…

I think Wade’s last minute decision to recover the disposed security system component points to him recognizing that he’s in danger and will attempt to mount some sort of defense, even if it’s only slipping out a window and hunkering down in his squid shelter.

It’s Jeremy Irons playing Jeremy Irons.  I was willing to accept it in the prison because its 30+ years and he’s gone a little batty.  But it’s jarring in what’s supposed to be the same era as the comic.

In an episode featuring giant squids dropped on New York, consumer cloning, pills that contain memories, and a rescue SOS being created on one of Jupiter’s moons with clone bodies, a freshman U.S. Senator whining about being given a seat on the Appropriations Committee was by far the hardest thing to believe.

Wasn’t “Nostalgia” that cologne or perfume that Veidt was putting out in the comic? Was that supposed to have some kind of mental effect that I didn’t realize? Man, I love this show so much. Every single piece of it is fascinating. It’s so dense and playful, but also really incisive and personal. I seriously don’t…

great review as usual.

Really great episode, and not least because it gave us so many answers. I love Tim Blake Nelson, and I hope the ending isn’t implying he’s about to get written off the show. Also, he’s just about the only person from this generation with something like a superpower.

The senator’s pun was a groaner, but the support…

I really dug the idea of getting an acorn and “planting” it to see your family tree. I’d go to museums if something like that was actually there.

I read the series as a tween myself, and have re-read it every year since. I can say this series is one of the reasons I decided to leave the Catholic Church at 16 and decided to explore other types of spirituality. I just finished The Secret Commonwealth and cannot wait for the next book as it deals so much with what…