WatchmenHBO writer Cord Jefferson on how the show eerily predicted America's current ugly moment by mining its past
being prescient on a lot of these subjects, and someone replied along the lines of, “That show was pro-cop.” Does it surprise you that someone could take that away from these nine episodes?
I rewatched the pilot this morning, and it was so strange seeing the traffic stop sequence only a few days after. In the show’s modern America, where Robert Redford is president, cops have to get authorization from headquarters before they can draw their weapons. What were the conversations like coming up with that concept?
But Redford’s been president since the late Eighties in the show, and things are about as bad there as they are here. Having a progressive administration running the country for thirty years has not fixed the fundamental rot in America, it seems. How did having such a diverse room play out in terms of the black writers in the room bringing a differeIt was really interesting, because there was such a diversity of opinion. One of the white writers, Jeff Jensen, his father was a police detective. I think his fatherSo he came from a background where he saw his dad do a very impressive, heroic thing as a police officer.
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