The fuck? Grant Morrison’s King Mob does not exist contemporaneously, or even in the same universe as, Hooded Justice. There is clearly some in-universe bad guy who uses the same moniker. This is by far the weirdest criticism of this show.

Adrian Viedt is my theory.

It’s also a cheeky detail to consider that in the world of ‘Watchmen’, costumed vigilantism is a cultural product like rock n’ roll— largely created by black innovators and then co-opted by white frontmen.

Yeah apparently (Kand is long done subjecting himself to hate-watching TWD) the main series has Samantha Morton. Kang just assumes that she committed some crime across the pond and EU law decrees that great actors are punishable by conscription to terrible U.S. TV shows.

You have to hand it to the Walking Dead franchise... it’s got it’s brand down pat.

‘Every week I get to see Regina King in a healthy relationship, struggle to uncover her family’s secrets, and molly whop bad guys. A hero like Hooded Justice helps me feel seen in an entirely new way.’

This show is absolutely dismal. It rolls out ‘revelations’ that are barely telenovela-level compelling, the younger actors are terrible, and it manages to feel like it’s a nonstop avalanche of exposition without ever explaining the mechanics or the history of the world enough to make it coherent. The only thing that…

The Superman actors are a wonderful coincidence, but Bass Reeves was an actual person.  

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…

Is this a bit?

Accusing Fury Road of being ‘steeped in nostalgia’ seems extremely dubious to Kang— even as a child of the ’80’s, Mad Max didn’t seem to me like a very in-demand franchise in 2015. And the film made absolutely no gesture towards involving Mel Gibson.

Drive and Social Network are on this list, but Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is not?????

Yep.

Kang thinks the main problem of the show is that the direction/writing doesn’t seem to have any point of view of its own. I’m totally okay with an anti-hero being the protagonist of a story. If anything, ‘Mando’ could be MORE mysterious. But the main character seems more like an avatar of a video game than a…

It totally was Petey.

Doc Manhattan is not on Mars, and Lindelof knows it.  Just like the blue telephone booths, this is a scam that the government keeps going because it comforts people.   

This movie is great. Although, even though I love the Russos and the majority of the post-Avengers movies, I’m sad that this was the high water-mark for the Hulk— both character and effects-wise. Whedon was the only one to get the balance of the tragedy and the heroism right. Afterwards, he became mostly comic…

I remember seeing Iron Man in Times Square with my sister— I was an old Marvel fan but thought superhero movies were on their last gasp of relevance, and couldn’t conceive how yet another superhero origin story would win over a mass audience, much less critical acclaim (even though—or maybe because—The Dark Knight had…

He was! But he’d still be terrible casting for Dan. Patrick Wilson was physically all wrong but managed to do the best acting work in the (terrible) movie apart from Jackie Earle Haley, who was admittedly perfect for Kovacs.

I have several friends who have never read the original book and yet are absolutely obsessed with the show so far. Although at least one of them felt enough information overload in this episode to start attempting to wikipedia the comic.