Watchmen (The TV Series)

Warning! There’s a prediction/possible spoiler near the end!

In my less-than-humble opinion, a TV series based on a movie based on a graphic novel is never going to go well. It’s a bit like the sci-fi view of cloning: successive copies are always a little less perfect than the first generation.

The Watchmen franchise has managed to get around this by making a perfect copy of the original, and then pretty much rewriting the original for the TV series. So far, the results are … encouraging. Couple of things to bear in mind though:

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Come on, who couldn’t guess what was coming next…?

 

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Girls is one of the those really odd TV shows that I’ve followed from the beginning. What makes it odd – for me – is that I have no idea why I’m such fan. None of the characters are particularly likeable; they don’t have particularly interesting lives and none of them have grown since the show started.

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