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  Review by Tay ★★★★★ 21

  me, giving something a star-rating in the year 2019? it's... dare i say... a thermodynamic miracle.

  but Watchmen is more than a miracle—it is far more planned, articulate, masterful than chance. as a newcomer to the graphic novel and Synder's film, i find myself delighting in an alternate reality, for the most part. it is dark, violent, morally askew, erotic, crude, self-referential and self-critical. but it is also a very masculine text, both literature and film; it is universal inasmuch that the universe is made in the image of powerful men with faulty egos, hubris.

  this Watchmen, though? it is of today, of yesterday, of a long history not represented, acknowledged, documented enough. the writers exploded an already fleshy political…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 4

  "You can't heal under a mask, Angela. Wounds need air."

  AND I BELIEVE IN TELEVISION

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  Review by Josiah Morgan ★★★★★ 14

  Lindelof's career has been focused on the limitations of our presence in time, the limits of our aging and the hurt that ripples outward from where it is created inside of us. The new step that Watchmen takes is to make this focus disciplined, racially motivated, and formally coherent: the central narrative act of Mesmerism is intrinsically tied not just with the inception of the superhero genre but also the inception of film itself. Where the original comic was a critique of the medium at the time, Watchmen entangles a critique of the propagandist dimensions of media in relation to the long-term sprawl of history.

  So, it's an imperfect work from television’s ballsiest writer. It is both dorky and a…

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★ 9

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  seemed like a whole lot of fuss just to get to “dr. womanhatten when?” needed more lube man.

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★★ 11

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I will think of the way this show portrays Dr Manhattan for the rest of my life. genuinely life changing shit in a way that shakes my body to the core, bringing me consolation and beauty in a way I was never expecting. can’t believe the show was able to adapt the ways his brain experiences time and incorporate it into the montage perfectly, instead of removing itself from humanity and showing how he loses his grasp on love, but by connecting him so deeply to another person that he’d give up every single thing. the way Episode 8 uses his soft voice and immaculate editing to show the entirety of a relationship, the crushing lows, the overwhelming highs and…

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  Review by ♦️•Lily•💋 ★★★★★ 4

  “Jon, come back, where are you?”
  “I’m in every moment we were together, all at once.”

  Probably the best comic book related piece of 
  tv/film ever made

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  Review by Erik 🎼 ★★★★★

  HBO: you WILL cry over this naked blue man

  me: WHATEVER YOU SAY MR LINDELOF

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  Review by Kevflix And Chill ★★★★★ 10

  I think this is my third time watching this. Literally binged it all in a single sitting this time.  I just absolutely love this series. Love the nonlinear storytelling and how the show builds mystery and intrigue in the beginning and follows through with some truly excellent payoffs. Reznor and Ross score f🤩ks and the soundtrack choices both incredibly thematic and cinematic. The entire cast slays, essentially every moment. Even the smaller roles. Standout performers for me are Jean Smart and Tim Blake Nelson, and I’m obsessed with Nelson’s mirror mask that looks magical on screen. This is definitely up there as one of my favorite shows of all time. Coincidentally, I didn’t realize it it at the time but…

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  Review by Syaoran ★★★★½

  Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

  A "superhero" show that actually took risks and tackled serious subject matters. Damn, Watchmen ain't playing. This shit is bananas.

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  Review by coffee ★★★★★ 4

  “This is the moment.”

  the greatest TV we’ve gotten since Twin Peaks The Return. masterful stuff. it’s honestly kind of a miracle that television this good still exists today, television this focused, television this enthralling, television this consistent. lindelof is a god. all hail.

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  Review by Noah Thompson ★★½ 14

  Is there life on Mars?

  I guess it wouldn't be a complete year without at least one more unpopular opinion. I'll keep this one simple because as much as I didn't like it, I don't really hate much of anything in it. My complaints about Watchmen can be summed up in two ways: Just about every examination about race and other American issues felt very surface level, a good idea or a scene rearing its head every once in a while. Otherwise, the film just suffers from being a slog. I never became truly invested with any of the new characters, the dialogue not helping any of that, the visuals were often flat, and this somehow managed to have a…

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  Review by al ★ 12

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Another in the hit series of shows dumb people think are really smart.

  Such highlights as:
  -a character in all seriousness asking "what came first the chicken or the egg?"
  -lampshading the baffling racial politics of blackface Dr. Manhattan
  -does this thing where it plays a song and the lyrics line up with what's happening on screen except 5 times an episode
  -Regina King being as lost as all the viewers in the show, going "what the fuck?" at least 3 times an episode
  -Both siding the police and also justifying torture a bunch
  -Social justice as a product with nothing meaningful to say (and told by a white person)