Director Nicole Kassell breaks down why the show’s prescient pilot feels so relevant to the Black Lives Matter protests and President Trump’s recent Oklahoma rally
The HBO series Watchmen starts off its story in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. A young boy sits watching a silent film in a theater as a siren wails in the distance. He’s watching Bass Reeves, one of America’s first Black U.S. deputy marshals, on-screen in pursuit of a crooked sheriff.
Reeves lassos the man, then prevents the growing crowd from taking matters into its own hands. “There will be no mob justice today,” the boy in the theater says proudly, echoing the actor playing Reeves. “Trust in the law,” the boy says, just as an explosion hurls him and his family into unrelenting chaos. As his father carries him to safety,...
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