Watchmen ep 6: This Extraordinary Being
This episode was the best fusion of canon and reinvention I have had the pleasure of seeing.
Technically-polished in deploying film craft to tell a story infused with deep anger and sense of injustice carried down generations, it takes the clues of the original Hooded Justice - Minutemen backstory in the comic, turns it on its head in a way that is not only plausible but very satisfyingly brings the pieces together. Of course that was what the hood and the rope meant! Brilliant.
I am enjoying how the stories of each character is tied by a thread: how trauma and pain is behind the mask and how the mask is no solution but inflicts more suffering. I suspect the same will come from Trieu, the trillionaire from Vietnam, now an American colony.
I was nervous and sceptical about this series as yet another cynical exploitation of a comic that was never meant to be a franchise but it has surpassed expectations and instead is ambitious in the story it wants to tell.