That would certainly be different from the stories that have been told in the “Watchmen” universe before, in which Vietnam is a sideshow or a backdrop. ADWhen plans for a “Watchmen” show were announced, it initially seemed like HBO was resurrecting yet another piece of intellectual property, albeit a relatively highbrow one. But Lindelof’s show immediately distinguished itself with an opening recreation of the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa. Rather, Vietnam and Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American people end up occupying that vacated space, but largely in service of other people’s stories. The survivors and descendants of the Tulsa massacre deserved the story “Watchmen” told this season.

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2019 17:03 UTC