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Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 2 Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship

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Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 2

Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship

Aired Oct 27, 2019

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As Angela relives haunting memories of an attack on her family, she detains a mysterious man who claims responsibility for Tulsa's most recent murder; an original play is performed for an audience of one.

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Damon Lindelof and his team refuse to hold back as they continue to subvert expectations in the absolutely confounding, but positively riveting "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship."

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Soraya Nadia McDonald

Andscape

11/04/2019

One of Watchmen's many laudable qualities is the way it employs allegory in its exploration of who holds power in America, and how the lived realities of race are difficult to shake, no matter who is in charge.

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Scott Tobias

New York Times

11/01/2019

So much of Watchmen is about upending our assumptions, though, that it's worth acknowledging what we've actually learned, just to have one foot planted on terra firma.

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Angelica Jade Bastién

New York Magazine/Vulture

11/01/2019

3/5

For black American folks, inheritance is a slippery thing given all that slavery and its modern remnants have stripped from us.... inheritance is what makes the world-building of this stunning Watchmen episode so rich and tantalizing.

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

03/11/2024

Tonight’s episode, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship,” demonstrates exactly that by answering a few lingering mysteries from its initial outing, and creating more than we thought possible.

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Christopher Hooton

NME (New Musical Express)

07/13/2021

It might get tiring if Watchmen becomes simply a sequence of mysteries to unravel and characters to decode, but for now it's proving an intriguing puzzle.

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Dewey Singleton

AwardsWatch

01/21/2020

While the first episode laid the groundwork for this universe, the second episode served as a bridge into what's to come this season.

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Synopsis

As Angela relives haunting memories of an attack on her family, she detains a mysterious man who claims responsibility for Tulsa's most recent murder; an original play is performed for an audience of one.

Creator: Damon Lindelof
Executive Producer: Damon Lindelof, Nicole Kassell, Tom Spezialy, Stephen Williams, Joseph E. Iberti
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Action, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 27, 2019