All of Our Memories, All at Once

I involuntarily caught this show. I’m juggling a lot of different apps and it was HBO’s turn to be my top spot. I added it on to my Hulu subscription so that I could watch “The Outsider” and “The New Pope”. I didn’t know that “The Watchmen” would grab me.

And it didn’t. Not at first. I remember being underwhelmed by the film a decade ago and the first two episodes didn’t click right away as to where we had left off from the film. It’s a slow burn and like “The Killing” it’s one that you have to give room to breathe. Regina King blew me away and following her on this journey made for a binge-worthy show.

Survivors and Debt

Bad shit went down in this small Oklahoma town in the 1920’s. People were killed, families were torn apart and justice was never served. As the show will lay out, that shit happens everywhere. What it explored was to ask, what is our responsibility to this pain?

If you survive horrible trauma, do you continue with your life and live like the haters never wanted you to? Or do you seek out revenge? Let’s go with option B and think it through. What happens if you seek out that revenge? Does it satiate your anger and pain? Are you then granted a clean slate? I don’t know. I want to say that you don’t go after them, that you live your life and leave them be, but I’m also petty and if it…