The all-white parishioners demand to know who has roped in the sheriff, but when they call for a lynching, they’re referring to the white sheriff, not the black marshal who has apprehended him. Lindelof is comfortable playing the heretic. On balance, it’s probably optimal to have read the comic before seeing “Watchmen,” but only if you’re willing to loosen your grip on it. That’s the Damon Lindelof feeling, familiar to anyone who watched his work as a co-creator and showrunner on “Lost” and “The Leftovers,” two puzzle-box shows that sowed confusion and teased out questions they were in no hurry to answer. In the lead-up to “Watchmen,” Damon Lindelof’s “remix,” as he has described it, of the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the question on many viewers’ minds has been, “Should I read the book?” Judging by the explainers and pocket histories in culture pages across the media - including this excellent one by The Times’s Adam Sternbergh - there’s some agreement that the context is helpful, since the events in that book are fully integrated into the TV show.Īnd yet the pilot for “Watchmen,” which aired Sunday on HBO, stands as a profoundly destabilizing experience for all parties - those with a Talmudic relationship to the book those who have never experienced it in any form and those who live in America in 2019, who will recognize parts of their country as reflected off a fun-house mirror. Season 1, Episode 1: ‘It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice’
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