Watchmen
Watchmen Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 8.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
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About
"A superhero mystery that confronts American history"
Set decades after the original graphic novel, this HBO series imagines an alternate America where masked vigilantes are outlawed and a Tulsa police detective uncovers a white-supremacist conspiracy tied to the city's buried history. It's dense, visually inventive, and unafraid to detour into extended flashback episodes that recontextualize everything. The tone swings between pulpy superhero mystery and searing historical reckoning, anchored by Regina King's steely lead performance. Watching it feels like solving a puzzle where every episode reshuffles the pieces, demanding close attention but rewarding it with one of the most ambitious single seasons of TV made.
the way it fuses masked-vigilante mystery with a genuine reckoning with American racial history.
you want straightforward superhero action rather than a puzzle-box structure demanding close attention.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice | 8.0 | 12K | 61 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship | 7.9 | 9K | 55 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | She Was Killed by Space Junk | 8.4 | 9K | 53 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own | 7.9 | 8K | 52 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Little Fear of Lightning | 8.9 | 9K | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | This Extraordinary Being | 9.2 | 11K | 61 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | An Almost Religious Awe | 8.8 | 8K | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | A God Walks into Abar | 9.4 | 11K | 63 min | |
| ▶ | 9 | See How They Fly | 8.7 | 8K | 67 min |