Unabridged: Talking HBO’s Watchmen Series with David Dennis Jr.

Friend of The Stacks David Dennis Jr. is back to help us break down the 2019 HBO limited series Watchmen, in honor of our July book club episode about Alan Moore’s iconic graphic novel. We discuss David’s obsession with the show, its pivotal race moments and one special ingredient that the series added to its source material.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.

The Movement Made Us by David Dennis Sr and David Dennis Jr

• Watchmen (HBO)

• Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)

• “Ep. 277 Watchmen by Alan Moore — The Stacks Book Club” (The Stacks)

• Regina King

• Damon Lindelof

• Rap Stories (ESPN, Andscape, David Dennis Jr)

• “Bun B” (Rap Stories)

• “Big K.R.I.T.” (Rap Stories)

• “MC Lyte” (Rap Stories)

• “Curren$y” (Rap Stories)

• “Freddie Gibbs” (Rap Stories)

• “Goodie Mob” (Rap Stories)

• “Ja Rule” (Rap Stories)

• “Between Me & You” (Ja Rule ft. Christina Milian, 2000)

• All My Sons by Arthur Miller

• “Did It On’em” (Nicki Minaj, 2010)

• Top 10 by Alan Moore, Zander Cannon and Gene Ha

• Jean Smart

• Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

• Tulsa race massacre

• Lost (ABC)

• The Leftovers (HBO)

• “This Extraordinary Being” (Watchmen, HBO)

• Cord Jefferson

• “All-Time 100 Novels: Watchmen” (Lev Grossman, Time)

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan

• “Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture” (Maureen Ryan, Vanity Fair)

• George Zimmerman

• Kyle Rittenhouse

• Bruce Wayne/Batman

• Clark Kent/Superman

• The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)

• Black Panther (Ryan Coogler and Marc Forster, 2018)

• Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996)

• Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax

• Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank

• Green Lantern by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp

• Geoff Johns

• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

• Simone Biles

• Oklahoma! (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943)

• Rodgers and Hammerstein

• “Breaking Down the Season Premiere of ‘Watchmen’” (The Watch)

• Juliet Litman

• Oklahoma! (2019 revival)

• Around the Horn (ESPN)

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