The cast is hit or miss. I loved Jeremy Irons, Hong Chau and Jovan Adepo. I really didn't like Regina King. It's party due to how her character is written. She is supposed to be everything: Caring mother, badass vigilante, sensual lover. I found her utterly boring and quite unrelatable. That's of course a matter of personal taste.
The original score is quite good, but the selection of stock music is pretty cliche and rather uninspired.
The story has a lot of flaws and a lot of logic holes. I won't spoil anything, so I won't go into too much detail. The biggest problem to me (at least in the beginning) was the unlikely antagonist threat. It's very 2019 however, which will make the show feel dated soon. It made me cringe often.
I understand that Watchmen is about alternate history, but that still doesn't sell me the idea that some people are just evil. The show introduces the concept of "secret racists" (spelling it even out). These are people who don't act racist, even have close sincere friendships with people of different ethnicities, BUT ARE EVIL because...well...the show doesn't really make that clear. However, it leaves no doubt those evil people deserve no less than death as punishment.
By the end I had stopped caring who makes it, except for one character. That one is then being judged harshly...by today's standards, for something he did 35 years ago in a situation of extreme threat, something that's supposed to be morally highly ambiguous (even in the original comic). The woke squad has no problem with harsh judgement, however.
Neither have I: mediocre at most, where it could have easily been great.
The original score is quite good, but the selection of stock music is pretty cliche and rather uninspired.
The story has a lot of flaws and a lot of logic holes. I won't spoil anything, so I won't go into too much detail. The biggest problem to me (at least in the beginning) was the unlikely antagonist threat. It's very 2019 however, which will make the show feel dated soon. It made me cringe often.
I understand that Watchmen is about alternate history, but that still doesn't sell me the idea that some people are just evil. The show introduces the concept of "secret racists" (spelling it even out). These are people who don't act racist, even have close sincere friendships with people of different ethnicities, BUT ARE EVIL because...well...the show doesn't really make that clear. However, it leaves no doubt those evil people deserve no less than death as punishment.
By the end I had stopped caring who makes it, except for one character. That one is then being judged harshly...by today's standards, for something he did 35 years ago in a situation of extreme threat, something that's supposed to be morally highly ambiguous (even in the original comic). The woke squad has no problem with harsh judgement, however.
Neither have I: mediocre at most, where it could have easily been great.