HBO’s Watchmen is one of the most exciting, ambitious and intensely weird series of the year

The series is the second adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's classic graphic novel, following Zack Snyder's 2009 film.Sensing the indifference that Snyder’s adaptation has acquired since its release, Lindelof made a smart decision right at the beginning: Hiswould not be a retelling. Nor would he go the second-most obvious route and adapt the middlingseries of prequel comics that DC pumped out back in 2012. Instead, he would cast his Watchmen into the future – well, our future.

Avoiding obvious settings like New York, where much of Moore and Gibbons' series took place, Lindelof situates his Watchmen in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's here where racial tensions are the highest in the country, thanks to the lingering pain of the Greenwood Massacre of 1921 .

That’s not nearly all. The Oklahoma police fear for their lives and now wear masks to protect their identity. Caped crusaders are hunted by the FBI, there’s no such thing as the internet or cellphones, the super-powered Dr. Manhattan has left Earth for Mars, and every now and then tiny little extra-dimensional alien squid fall from the sky.

If all this sounds like, well, a lot, that’s because it is. Lindelof refuses to hold his audience’s hands as he ventures down some truly weird narrative paths. It is dynamic and bold storytelling, though it will be impenetrable for anyone who hasn’t read Moore and Gibbons’ original series .

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