This review contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 4, titled "If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own." Check out our recap of Watchmen episode 3 here.
With its fourth episode, titled “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own,” HBO’s Watchmen finds itself in a major way. While the show’s central mystery remains vague — as it did in last week’s Brecht-laden entry “She Was Killed By Space Junk” — lingering questions of what and why (and malformed political mechanics) fade into the backdrop. Instead, the focus falls on characters we know, and their respective inherited traumas. It’s with this episode, written by showrunner Damon Lindelof along with Christal Henry, that the series’ emotional scope finally begins to crystalize.
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With its fourth episode, titled “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own,” HBO’s Watchmen finds itself in a major way. While the show’s central mystery remains vague — as it did in last week’s Brecht-laden entry “She Was Killed By Space Junk” — lingering questions of what and why (and malformed political mechanics) fade into the backdrop. Instead, the focus falls on characters we know, and their respective inherited traumas. It’s with this episode, written by showrunner Damon Lindelof along with Christal Henry, that the series’ emotional scope finally begins to crystalize.
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