‘Watchmen’ Director Stephen Williams Dissects The Visual Vocabulary Of ‘This Extraordinary Being’ [Interview]
Police wearing masks and purposefully not identifying themselves during nationwide protests? Police brutality coming to a horrific head? Racist extremist groups attempting to exert their influence on the national discourse? These aren’t just issues that have struck America over the past few months, these are narrative themes plucked right out of Damon Lindelof’s “Watchmen,” an almost year-old mini-series that’s cultural relevance continues to flourish in the most heartbreaking of ways. One of the episodes of the HBO series that feels most poignant at this time is “This Extraordinary Being,” a chapter directed by Stephen Williams and written by Cord Jefferson and Lindelof.