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Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 9 See How They Fly

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Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 9

See How They Fly

Aired Dec 15, 2019

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Everything ends for real this time.

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With its interconnected storylines, stellar performances, and complex themes, "See How They Fly" does the impossible and ends Damon Lindelof's adaptation of Watchmen spectacularly.

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Nick Schager

The Daily Beast

12/17/2019

Watchmen practices what Will preaches: exposing American scars in the hope that doing so is a gateway to renewal.

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Alex Abad-Santos

Vox

12/16/2019

I've really enjoyed this entire season, and though I don't know if I love the finale as much as episode six or eight, I really enjoyed how it unspooled the season's mysteries

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Allegra Frank

Vox

12/16/2019

The poignancy of their [Angela and Dr. Manhattan's] relationship in particular made the conclusion land for me, as it carried increased emotional heft.

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

03/11/2024

A phenomenal take on a beloved comic book classic

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Christopher Hooton

NME (New Musical Express)

07/13/2021

Tonally self-aware, this was a much more coherent Watchmen than Zack Snyder's, but for a story that's supposed to send up the genre in a lot of ways, it didn't feel hugely different from a regular DC or Marvel blockbuster.

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Dewey Singleton

AwardsWatch

01/21/2020

The last 2 minutes of this episode has all the potential of being debated in the same vein as The Sopranos finale.

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Synopsis

Everything ends for real this time.

Director: Frederick E.O. Toye
Creator: Damon Lindelof
Executive Producer: Damon Lindelof, Nicole Kassell, Tom Spezialy, Stephen Williams, Joseph E. Iberti
Screenwriter: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Action, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Dec 15, 2019