WATCHMEN Season 2 Could Go Full AMERICAN HORROR STORY
Mike Sprague
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It looks like the second season of HBO’s Watchmen could go the whole American Horror Story yearly anthology route. Which makes sense to me.
Lost and The Leftovers creator Damon Lindelof tells THR: “…Am I interested in a second season? The answer to that question is yes, in the same way, that I’m interested in anything that calls itself Watchmen. I do find it interesting, where the story could go next. More importantly, I think we always think about how season two of a show is the continuing adventures of the first season of the show. That’s what happened on Lost. That’s what happened on Breaking Bad. ”
He adds: “But there’s another thing that’s happened on television. Look at season two of The Wire. That season, it’s the docks. McNulty and the cops are relegated to being second-stringers, no pun intended, in the second season of The Wire. The third season is “Hamsterdam,” the fourth season is a deep dive on public schools. I think Watchmen, not unlike Fargo or True Detective, can accommodate a much larger space of storytelling. That’s interesting to me.”
Finally, he says: “As for me? I haven’t had the idea. I had to convince myself if this was going to be a satisfying nine-episode series, we wouldn’t bury things for later, having done the opposite of that thing on both Lost and to some degree The Leftovers.“
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The series is based on the celebrated graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and takes place in Tulsa, Okla., 34 years after the original story. After a white supremacist attack on the local police department, which leaves only two surviving cops on the beat, laws are passed that allow them to hide their identities behind masks. One of these cops, Angela Abar, adopts the identity of Sister Night and fights racists while dealing with the decades-long legacy of the vigilantes.
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