Whowatches the Watchmen ? The exact sort of people they do n’t really want see them , it wrench out .
HBO just shed a sword young trailer for Damon Lindelof ’s sequel - take on the seminal vivid novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons . It , like ourpriorlooks at the show — set in a worldafter the original comic , a world turned strange and even more grimly dystopian by Ozymandias ’ destruction of New York City — examines how , after eschewing cloak vigilantism for decades , club has returned to embracing the masquerade … and notin majuscule way .
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Regina King’s got something to hide under her snazzy superhero look.Image: HBO
masque hide identities , they hide design , they hide traumas . And this newfangled poke wants you to have it away that , as Regina King ’s Angela Abrahams takes on a vigilante identity of her own to run down a mysterious radical of terrorists calling themselves the Kalvary , donning ink - blotted masks of their own akin to the one have on by Rorschach .
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It ’s a gentle skewering of our own superhero fascination of the second , as for all the cool costume these ego - made heroes and baddie don , it ca n’t help but all look deep , deeply messed up . Which is the item , in the end .
watchman hail to HBO on October 20 .
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