Watchmen Vs. His Dark Materials
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4 min readDec 13, 2019
In the fall, two highly anticipated series debuted on HBO: Watchmen on Sunday nights and His Dark Materials on Monday nights. Both shows have similarities, but one has clearly outshone the other in its creativity, inventiveness, humor, and unpredictability.
Both TV shows are based off classic literary source materials. In the case of Watchmen, it is the titular graphic novel by Alan Moore from the mid-80s…