WATCHMEN Leads 2020 Emmy Nominations with 26

Who watches the Watchmen?  Emmy nomination voters, apparently.

Variety has details on HBO's limited series Watchmen, based on the classic DC Comics maxi-series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, leading the nominations for the 2020 Emmy Awards with 26 total, including acting nominations for Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jean Smart, Louis Gossett Jr., and Jovan Adepo. 

The Disney Plus series The Mandalorian earned an impressive 15 nominations for its first season, while HBO's Westworld picked up 11 nominations.  Netflix's Stranger Things and the FX supernatural comedy What We Do in the Shadows both earned 8 nominations, while CBS All Access' Star Trek: Picard earned 5 nominations.

Other recognized geek-favorite shows include Amazon Prime's Carnival Row and The Boys, Fox's The Simpsons, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, and Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Lost in Space and Mindhunter.

You can read the full list of nominations HERE, but this is the breakdown for the shows listed above...

WATCHMEN (26 Nominations)

Outstanding Limited Series

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie -- Jeremy Irons as Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie -- Regina King as Sister Night/Angela Abar

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie -- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Dr. Manhattan/Cal Abar

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie -- Jovan Adepo as Hooded Justice/Officer Will Reeves

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie -- Louis Gossett Jr. as William Reeves

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie -- Jean Smart as Laurie Blake

Outstanding Writing For A Limited Series, Movie Or Dramatic Special -- "This Extraordinary Being" -- Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson

Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie Or Dramatic Special -- "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" -- Nicole Kassell

Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie Or Dramatic Special -- "Little Fear of Lightning" -- Steph Green

Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie Or Dramatic Special -- "This Extraordinary Being" -- Stephen Williams

Outstanding Music Composition For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special

(Original Dramatic Score) -- "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" -- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics -- "This Extraordinary Being" / Song Title: "The Way It Used To Be" by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Outstanding Music Supervision -- "This Extraordinary Being"

Outstanding Main Title Design

Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Period Or Fantasy Program (One Hour Or More) -- "An Almost Religious Awe"

Outstanding Casting For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special

Outstanding Cinematography For A Limited Series Or Movie -- "Little Fear of Lightning"

Outstanding Cinematography For A Limited Series Or Movie -- "This Extraordinary Being"

Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes -- "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Limited Series Or Movie -- "A God Walks into Abar"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Limited Series Or Movie -- "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Limited Series Or Movie -- "This Extraordinary Being"

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special -- "This Extraordinary Being"

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Limited Series Or Movie -- "This Extraordinary Being"

Outstanding Special Visual Effects -- "See How They Fly"

THE MANDALORIAN (15 Nominations)

Outstanding Drama Series

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series -- "Chapter 8: Redemption" -- Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance -- "Chapter 8: Redemption" -- Taika Waititi as IG-11

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score) -- Ludwig Göransson

Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program (Half-Hour) -- "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian"

Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour) -- "Chapter 7: The Reckoning"

Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes -- "Chapter 3: The Sin"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series -- "Chapter 2: The Child"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series -- "Chapter 4: Sanctuary"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series -- "Chapter 8: Redemption"

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Limited Series, Movie Or Special -- "Chapter 6: The Prisoner"

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And

Animation -- "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian"

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And

Animation -- "Chapter 2: The Child"

Outstanding Special Visual Effects -- "Chapter 2: The Child"

Outstanding Stunt Coordination For A Drama Series, Limited Series Or Movie

WESTWORLD  (11 Nominations)

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series -- Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series -- Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay

Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Period Or Fantasy Program (One Hour Or More) -- "Parce Domine"

Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (One Hour) -- "Parce Domine"

Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes -- "Parce Domine"

Outstanding Main Title Design

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Limited Series, Movie Or Special -- "Crisis Theory"

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) -- "Parce Domine"

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) -- "Parce Domine"

Outstanding Special Visual Effects -- "Crisis Theory"

Outstanding Interactive Extension Of A Linear Program -- "Free Will Is Not Free Interactive Experience"

STRANGER THINGS (8 Nominations)

Outstanding Drama Series

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series -- "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt"

Outstanding Music Supervision -- "Chapter Three: The Case of the Missing Lifeguard"

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) -- "Chapter Eight: the Battle of Starcourt"

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) -- "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt"

Outstanding Special Visual Effects -- "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt"

Outstanding Stunt Coordination For A Drama Series, Limited Series Or Movie

Outstanding Interactive Extension Of A Linear Program -- "Scoops Ahoy: Operation Scoop Snoop"

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (8 Nominations)

Outstanding Comedy Series

Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series -- "Collaboration" -- Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil

Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series -- "Ghosts" -- Paul Simms

Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series -- "On the Run" -- Stefani Robinson

Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program (Half-Hour) -- "Resurrection", "Collaboration", "Witches"

Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series -- "Resurrection"

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And

Animation -- "The Return"

STAR TREK: PICARD (5 Nominations)

Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling -- "Stardust City Rag"

Outstanding Period And/Or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) -- "Stardust City Rag"

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Limited Series, Movie Or Special -- "Absolute Candor"

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) -- "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2"

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) -- "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2:"

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: 1984 (4 Nominations)

Outstanding Period And/Or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) -- "The Lady in White"

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Limited Series, Movie Or Special -- "True Killers"

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special -- "Camp Redwood"

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Limited Series Or Movie -- "Camp Redwood"

CARNIVAL ROW (3 Nominations)

Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music -- Nathan Barr

Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes -- "Aisling"

Outstanding Main Title Design

THE SIMPSONS (3 Nominations)

Outstanding Animated Program -- "Thanksgiving of Horror"

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance -- "Better Off Ned" -- Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, and Todd Flanders

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance -- "Frinkcoin" -- Hank Azaria as Professor Frink, Moe Syzslak, Chief Wiggum, Carl Carlson, Cletus Spuckler, Kirk Van Houten, and Sea Captain

BLACK MIRROR (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series -- "Smithereens" -- Andrew Scott as Chris Gillhaney

BOB'S BURGERS (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Animated Program -- "Pig Trouble in Little Tina"

THE BOYS (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) -- "The Name of the Game"

 

THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Children's Program

DOCTOR WHO (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Derivative Interactive Program -- "The Runaway"

LOST IN SPACE (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Special Visual Effects -- "Ninety-Seven"

MINDHUNTER (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (One Hour) -- "Episode 6"

RICK AND MORTY (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Animated Program -- "The Vat of Acid Episode"

STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Short Form Comedy Or Drama Series

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE (1 Nomination)

Outstanding Children's Program

The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards is scheduled to air Sunday, September 20th on ABC.

THE FANDOM ZONE 174: "See How They Fly" Is Up!

"She is clearly a raging narcissist whose ambition knows no limits.  It’s hubris, literal hubris.  Anyone who seeks to attain the power of a god must be prevented at all costs from attaining it.  But believe me, that girl will not rest until she has us all prostrate before her, kissing her tiny blue feet."

"Raging narcissist, hunh?"

"Opus esse uno, unum cognoscendi -- It takes one to know one."

-- Ozymandias and Laurie Blake, Watchmen: "See How They Fly"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I are back with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "See How They Fly", the season finale of the HBO series Watchmen, featuring Regina King as Angela Abar, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Doctor Manhattan, Jeremy Irons as Ozymandias, and Hong Chau as Lady Trieu!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like both of us being off for Christmas vacation, our thoughts on whether the Watchmen season finale stuck the landing, the debate over Watchmen having a second season, the Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus", the abandoned mind-control aspect for the season finale, the other two possible endings for the season finale, Adrian killing eight years waiting for Lady Trieu to rescue him from Europa, Bian artificially inseminating herself with Ozymandias' sperm, Lady Trieu meeting her father in Antarctica, Adrian's humbling space message to his daughter, Lady Trieu's need for an audience being her downfall, the Russian Doll of Angela being almost killed during the White Night, the end of the 7th Kavalry, Joe Keene Jr. turning into a pile of red goo, the return of Looking Glass, Adrian's using frozen squids to defeat Lady Trieu, the return of Archie, Adrian finally being arrested for murdering three million people, Jon saying goodbye to Angela, Angela finally coming clean to her family about her secret identity, Will telling Angela that Dr. Manhattan could've done more, Angela making the decision to eat the egg, the Sopranos-esque fade to black, why the ambiguous ending was a good call by Damon Lindelof, Dale Petey being revealed as Lube Man, our favorite quotes of the episode, the critics doing a coordinated hit-job on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and more!

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Be sure to come back next month, as Jesse and I joined once again by DJ Nik from The Whiskey & Cigarettes Show to discuss the final two parts of "Crisis on Infinite Earths", the sixth annual Arrowverse crossover event, based on the classic 1985-86 DC Comics maxi-series and featured in episodes of Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow!

THE FANDOM ZONE 173: "A God Walks into Abar" Is Up!

"The way I experience time is unique, and for you, particularly infuriating."
-- Doctor Manhattan to Angela Abar, Watchmen: "A God Walks into Abar"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I are back with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "A God Walks into Abar", the eighth episode of the HBO series Watchmen, featuring Regina King as Angela Abar, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Doctor Manhattan, Jeremy Irons as Ozymandias, and Louis Gossett Jr. as Will Reeves!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like Bootstrap Paradoxes and "the chicken or the egg" debate, Jeff Jensen writing Team Titans for DC Comics, Yahya Abdul-Mateen taking over as Doctor Manhattan, Lex Luthor not imagining that Superman would pretend to be human, Jon introducing himself to Angela in a Saigon bar, Angela thinking Jon is cosplaying Doctor Manhattan, the moment Jon falls in love with Angela, Doctor Manhattan passing his powers onto someone else, why it doesn't matter to Doctor Manhattan that he took over Calvin's body, young Jon and his father taking refuge in an English manor house during World War II, young Jon witnessing sex for the first time, Dave Gibbons working with the Watchmen TV series, Angela taking on the 7th Kalvary by herself, the first Watchmen post-credits scene, the answer for why baby squids are randomly raining down on Earth, Adrian's ego wanting people to know that he was responsible for the giant squid hoax in 1985, Adrian creating the Doctor Manhattan amnesia device 30 years ago, learning how Adrian ended up on Europa, the awkward moment where Angela indirectly caused the murder of Judd Crawford, our favorite quotes of the episode, Jesse not being able to talk, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week, as Jesse and I review "See How They Fly", the ninth (and possibly final) episode of HBO's Watchmen, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!

THE FANDOM ZONE 171: "An Almost Religious Awe" Is Up!

"I’m tired, Joe.  I’m tired of all the…silliness.  You want me to ask you why I’m strapped to a chair in an abandoned J.C. Penney, or what that cage is for?  Fine.  Just know that I don’t give a shit."
-- Laurie Blake to Senator Joe Keene, Watchmen: "An Almost Religious Awe"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I are back with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "An Almost Religious Awe", the seventh episode of the HBO series Watchmen, featuring Regina King as Sister Night/Angela Abar, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Cal Abar, Hong Chau as Lady Trieu, and Jean Smart as Laurie Blake!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like Hall & Oates vs. Paul Young, Jesse being unsure if he wants another season of Watchmen, more of my wondering about Cal's mysterious "accident", Dr. Manhattan's reaction to Vietnamese soldiers surrendering to him, the Batmanish origin of Sister Night, that awkward moment where young Angela's grandmother dies before she's able to bring Angela back to the American mainland, young Angela's obsession with watching the Sister Night VHS tape, Lady Trieu using mnemodialysis to help Angela recover from her overdose of her grandfather's Nostalgia pills, Bian asking Angela why she hides her activities as a cop from her kids, that awkward moment when Angela learns she's getting memory dialysis from an elephant, Angela learning that Lady Trieu's Dr. Manhattan phone booths are a data mining operation, my argument that Lady Trieu is Ozymandias' daughter, Jane confessing to Laurie that she's part of the Seventh Kavalry conspiracy, Laurie falling through a trap door in Jane's living room, Senator Joe Keene's racist statement about the system being rigged against white people, the 7K's plan to turn themselves into Doctor Manhattan, wondering why Lady Trieu didn't want Cal to come inside, Damon Lindelof cleverly ducking questions by telling people which specific episodes things do or don't happen, my ruining The Sixth Sense for my wife Lori and our friend Tom, Angela taking a claw hammer to Cal's forehead, Ozymandias farting in his trial, our favorite quotes of the episode, racists on social media being upset when a non-white actor is cast as a traditionally white character, Watchmen not helping Tulsa's tourism industry, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week, as Jesse and I review "A God Walks into a Bar", the eighth episode of HBO's Watchmen, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!

THE FANDOM ZONE 170: "This Extraordinary Being" Is Up!

"I believe there is a vast and insidious conspiracy at play in the city, and I have evidence that a secret plan is being developed by—"
"A new crime boss who calls himself Moloch the Magnificent.  Now, this villain is planning to harness the sun’s energy into a deadly solar weapon, threatening every man, woman and child in New York.  So, if you’ll excuse us, fellows, the Minutemen have a city to save.  But first, let’s talk about your savings and our good friends at National Bank…"
-- Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis, Watchmen: "This Extraordinary Being"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I are back with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "This Extraordinary Being", the sixth episode of the HBO series Watchmen, featuring Jovan Adepo as Hooded Justice/Will Reeves, Jake McDorman as Captain Metropolis/Nelson Gardner, Regina King as Angela Abar, and Louis Gossett Jr. as Old Will Reeves!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like finally getting on track for reviewing Watchmen, the series finally winning people over, the great decision to make Hooded Justice an African-American cop instead of a German wrestler, the recent Murphy Brown reboot, Hollis Mason's description of Hooded Justice in his biography Under the Hood, Fred Trump's reported ties to the KKK, Angela reliving her grandfather's memories, Will releasing there's only one way to take out the Cyclops conspiracy, hypnosis and mesmerism, Hooded Justice's Caucasian makeup vs. Sister Night's black makeup, the double meaning of the Minutemen not accepting Hooded Justice if they knew who he was, Captain Metropolis betraying Hooded Justice's plea for help with the Cyclops conspiracy, the original Watchmen comic book series being groundbreaking for comics as an artform, Laurie trying to keep Angela grounded in her own memories, the big revelation of how Judd Crawford was hanged, our favorite quotes of the episode, the news vendor reading Action Comics #1, some "Crisis on Infinite Earths" CW crossover news, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week, as Jesse and I review "An Almost Religious Awe", the seventh episode of HBO's Watchmen, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!

THE FANDOM ZONE 169: "Little Fear of Lightning" Is Up!

"I’m gonna show you something, and after you see it, you’re gonna walk out of here, and you’re never gonna be afraid of big teleporting aliens ever again.  Because I’m gonna set you free.  In return, I’m gonna ask you to do me a favor.  Call it a squid pro quo."
-- Senator Joe Keene to Wade Tillman, Watchmen: "Little Fear of Lightning"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I are back with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "Little Fear of Lightning", the fifth episode of the HBO series Watchmen, featuring Tim Blake Nelson as Looking Glass and James Wolk as Senator Joe Keene, and introducing Paula Malcolmson as Renee!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like my being on the disabled list, Damon Lindelof not assuming Watchmen will get a second season, actress Paula Malcolmson being everywhere, Jules Verne's 20,000 League Under the Sea, young Wade Tillman as a Jehovah's Witness spreading the word of God in New Jersey, Roxie manipulating young Wade in the mirrored funhouse, the origin of Looking Glass, finally getting to see the Squid in live-action, Wade's cover as a marketing researcher, Michael Imperioli's cameo, Wade being severely paranoid, the horrible moment when Wade's ex incinerates an imperfect dog clone, Wade as a Squid support group advisor, Steven Spielberg's fictional Pale Horse film, Senator Keene working with the 7th Kavalry, wondering where the 7K got the portal technology from, Wade learning that Ozymandias was behind the squid hoax and arranged for Robert Redford to become President, Adrian finally piercing the barrier of his prison, Looking Glass betraying Sister Night to Laurie, Sister Night downing the entire bottle of her grandfather's Nostalgia pills, Laurie pulling a Columbo move, our favorite quotes of the episode, news about Stargirl airing episodes on the CW one day after airing on DC Universe, not needing superheroes to have a great superhero show, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week, as Jesse and I review "This Extraordinary Being", the sixth episode of HBO's Watchmen, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!

THE FANDOM ZONE 168: "If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own" Is Up!

"Well, people who wear masks are driven by trauma.  They’re obsessed with justice, because of some injustice they suffered, usually when they were kids.  Ergo, the mask.  It hides the pain."
"I wear the mask to protect myself."
"Right.  From the pain.  So, did nuns murder your parents?  Or were you raised by nuns after your parents were murdered?  No judgment, I used to dress up and fight bad guys too."
-- Laurie Blake and Sister Night, Watchmen: "If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I have returned with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own", the fourth episode of the HBO series Watchmen, introducing Hong Chau as Lady Trieu, and featuring Regina King as Sister Night and Jean Smart as Laurie Blake!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like the Chinua Achebe novel Things Fall Apart, Lady Trieu's mini-me "daughter" Bian, Lady Trieu offering the Clarks a baby for their house and land, the nod to Superman and the Kents, Lady Trieu's Millennium Clock being more than a clock, Lady Trieu being an acolyte of Ozymandias, Will Reeves working with Lady Trieu, Lady Trieu talking Vietnamese with Sister Night, Lady Trieu possibly being the new Big Bad, Laurie psychoanalyzing Sister Night's reasons for wearing a mask, Cal telling his kids that heaven is pretend, Angela trying to pick a fight with Cal by spoiling the ending of Things Fall Apart, Cal lying for Angela even though he hates to lie, Cal's mystery accident, Sister Night claiming her car that was dropped from the sky, Angela giving Wade the Klan robe she found in Judd's closet, Angela learning about her great-grandparents, Senator Keene dropping the fact that he knows Sister Night's real name, Sister Night chasing after Lube Man, the cop connection between Judd's grandfather and Will Reeves, the Thermodynamic Miracle, Adrian fishing for baby Mr. Phillips and Ms. Crookshanks, wondering how Adrian has an aging machine, Adrian being completely insane and psychotic, Adrian plotting to escape his mystery prison, our favorite quotes of the episode, Max Allan Collins' Road to Perdition, news about the end of the Hulu series Runaways, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week, as Jesse and I review "Little Fear of Lightning", the fifth episode of HBO's Watchmen, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!

THE FANDOM ZONE 167: "She Was Killed by Space Junk" Is Up!

"Men who end up hanging from trees with secret compartments in their closets tend to think of themselves as good guys.  And those who protect them think they're good guys too.  But here's the thing about me, 'Sister Night', I eat good guys for breakfast."
-- Laurie Blake to Angela Abar, Watchmen: "She Was Killed by Space Junk"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I have returned with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "She Was Killed by Space Junk", the third episode of the HBO series Watchmen, introducing Jean Smart as Laurie Blake and Dustin Ingram as Dale Petey, and featuring Jeremy Irons as Ozymandias!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like Damon Lindelof writing each episode, Jean Smart on FX's Legion, Dale Petey's Peteypedia site, Devo coming from Akron, Ohio, Laurie telling Rorschach's Pagliacci joke, Laurie Blake 34 years later, Laurie taking on the Comedian's last name, Laurie hunting vigilantes for the FBI, Dale Petey running a slide projector in 2019, Petey telling Laurie he's not a fan, Laurie making a phone call to Doctor Manhattan to tell him two jokes, Laurie as the girl who threw the brick in the air, Senator Keene implying he can get Dan Dreiberg out of prison, Laurie's owl named Who, Laurie's secret Doctor Manhattan-sized vibrator, Laurie's "cat and mouse" game with Angela, Angela singing "The Last Round-Up" by Gene Autry at Judd's funeral, being suspicious about Senator Keene playing the hero at Judd's funeral, Angela using Judd's coffin and gravesite to shield everyone from a bomb explosion, Adrian launching Mr. Phillips in a protective suit, Adrian donning his old Ozymandias costume, our favorite quotes of the episode, some Batwoman casting news, and more!

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THE FANDOM ZONE 166: "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship" Is Up!

"There are people who believe this world is far and good.  That it's all lollipops and rainbows.  I remember what happened to my parents.  You remember what happened to your parents.  You and me, Topher, we don't do lollipops and rainbows, because we know those are just pretty colors that just hide what the world really is -- black and white."
-- Angela Abar, Watchmen: "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I have returned with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship", the second episode of the HBO series Watchmen, introducing James Wolk as Senator Joe Keene, and featuring Louis Gossett Jr. as Will Reeves, Tom Mison as Mr. Phillips, and Sara Vickers as Ms. Crookshanks!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like a double shot of our podcast love, wanting to see Christopher Eccleston as Doctor Manhattan, American Hero Story being a nod to American Horror Story, the slo-mo homage to Zack Snyder's Watchmen, the ridiculously long FCC warning to TV viewers, James Wolk as Bob Benson on Mad Men, everyone needing to pay attention to Joe Keene, the George Catlin painting Comanche Feats of Martial Horsemanship, Looking Glass mooching food like Rorschach, the Tulsa police uniforms being based on the Watchmen black and yellow design, seeing the events of the White Night massacre, wondering how Angela ended up in the hospital after being shot, learning how Topher and his sisters were adopted, the paparazzi using Mothman's tech, wondering if Judd was set up with the robe in his closet, Adrian being abusive to the Mr. Phillips and Ms. Crookshanks clones, Adrian directing "The Watchmaker's Son" play, Mr. Phillips going full frontal with his "Little Manhattan", Angela having to change into her Sister Night costume to interrogate Will, Angela paying off Andy to get him off her porch, Topher's levitating Lego set, Angela learning that Will is her grandfather, Will getting carjacked by a giant junkyard magnet, Peteypedia's obituary of Judd Crawford, our favorite quotes of the episode, some news about the upcoming Netflix series The Sandman, Jean Smart on FX's Legion, and more!

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THE FANDOM ZONE 165: "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" Is Up!

"How do you know he’s 7K?"
"I got a nose for white supremacy, and he smells like bleach."
-- Judd Crawford and Angela Abar, Watchmen: "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice"

Hello again, everyone!  My co-host Jesse Jackson and I have returned with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, we discuss "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice", the first episode of the HBO series Watchmen, introducing Regina King as Sister Night, Don Johnson as Judd Crawford, Tim Blake Nelson as Looking Glass, and Jeremy Irons as Ozymandias!

In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like showrunner Damon Lindelof, our background with the original Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen comic book limited series, the Watchmen characters being a substitute for the Charlton Comics superheroes DC Comics acquired, Dave Gibbons associating with the TV series, Zack Snyder's 2009 Watchmen film adaptation, the TV series being a sequel set 34 years after the original comic book series, star Regina King, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score, Angela's double life as a baker and Sister Night, white resentment toward "Redfordations", The white supremacist Seventh Kavalry twisting Rorschach's legacy for their horrible agenda, old Will Reeves claiming that he lynched Judd, the 1921 Tulsa race riot not being taught in schools, friend of the show Ken Schaefer being curious about Watchmen, people thinking the Watchmen TV series is bad because it's "woke", Judd's murder being the new version of the Comedian's murder, Judd singing "People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma!, why Judd didn't wear a mask like the other police officers, everyone hating Panda, Looking Glass and the interrogation pod, what happened to Dan Dreiberg the second Nite Owl, HBO's supplemental backmatter website Peteypedia, Ozymandias' imperfect clone servants Mr. Phillips and Ms. Crookshanks, Adrian writing a Doctor Manhattan play "The Watchmaker's Son", our favorite quotes of the episode, Fandom Zone news about various comic book TV shows, and more!

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First WATCHMEN Teaser Trailer Introduces an Army of Rorschachs

None of you seem to understand.  They are not locked in here with you.  You are locked in here with them.

HBO has released the first teaser trailer for Damon Lindelof's new series Watchmen, based on the classic DC Comics limited series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, revealing an army of Rorschachs and older versions of some original Watchmen characters.

The one-minute, ten-second trailer opens with a man wearing a homemade mask similar to the one worn by Rorschach.  Looking directly at the camera, he says in a gruff Rorschach-like voice, "We are no one, we are everyone, and we are invisible."  A ticking clock can be heard as the camera pulls back to reveal a small army of men wearing similar masks, standing in a church in front of the faded words "Praise Waiteth for Thee, O God, in Zion" from Psalm 65:1 of the 21st Century King James Version of the Bible.

A man softly repeats the words "Tick tock, tick tock" over and over as Chief Judd (Don Johnson) steps up to a podium before an assembly of police officers wearing yellow masks and we hear him say, "We convinced ourselves that they were gone, but they were just hibernating."

As the first man's ticking continues, we see a member of the Rorschach Army cocking a shotgun as Chief Judd says in a voiceover, "They came for everybody.  All police."

We see a funeral for a fallen officer, with other officers in attendance wearing yellow masks there as well.

Cal Abraham (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) asks in a voiceover, "Are we safe?"

Angela Abraham (Regina King) opens up a cabinet door, revealing a hooded uniform costume inside.  We see her attaching a police badge to her belt, then see her wearing the hooded uniform and a grey half-mask, joining a man wearing a shiny silver mask at a police crime scene.

The ticking chant intensifies as a man says in a voiceover, "I guess we have ourselves a reckoning."

Next, we glimpse Agent Blake (Jean Smart) opening a silver briefcase, followed by dozens of bodies littering a neighborhood fun fair.

As an timer clock sounds, we see Ozymandias (Jeremy Irons) meditating, followed by Chief Judd being blinded by outdoor field lights being turned on.

We then see a scythe adorned with a pirate flag similar to the Tales of the Black Freighter comic within a comic from the limited series.  One of the Rorschach Army fires a machine gun turret as a family looks up into the sky outside their farmhouse.

Ozymandis pushes down a detonatation plunger as we quick-cut to the man in the shiny silver mask, who is seated before a set of large video screens displaying the 1969 moon landing, a cowboy on a horse, United States soldiers, and an atomic bomb explosion.  In the reflection of his mask, we can see Ozymandias facing him.

We cut back to the church, with the camera pulling back again and revealing even more of the army as they all chant "Tick tock, tick tock..."

The chanting abruptly stops, as we hear a woman ask, "What are you two talking about?"

"Oh, nothin'," replies Chief Judd.  "Just the end of the world.  Tick tock, tick tock, tick--"

If you'd like to check out the new teaser, you can view it below thanks to the official HBO account on YouTube...




Watchmen is scheduled to debut on HBO sometime in Fall 2019.

HBO's WATCHMEN Casts Jeremy Irons as an Older Ozymandias

He doesn't mind being the smartest man in the world, he just wishes it wasn't this one.

Slashfilm has revealed that the upcoming HBO series based on DC Comics' Watchmen has cast veteran actor Jeremy Irons as an older version of Adrian Veidt, better known to Watchmen fans as the superhero (or supervillain) Ozymandias.

Irons was announced for the Watchmen cast several months ago, when it was revealed he would be playing an "aging and imperious lord of a British manor."  According to a report back in June, Ozymandias is officially declared dead in the show's first episode, so Irons may be playing the role in flashbacks, or those reports of Ozymandias' death have been greatly exaggerated.

Irons, 70, is best known as Alfred Pennyworth in the DC Extended Universe movies Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, as the voice of Scar in Disney's The Lion King, and as Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance.  His other films include Red Sparrow, Assassin's Creed, Eragon, Inland Empire, Kingdom of Heaven, The Time Machine (2002), and The Man in the Iron Mask.  Irons' television appearances include episodes of The Borgias, The Simpsons, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Saturday Night Live, and The Civil War.

Created in 1986 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons as a modified version of Charlton Comics' superhero Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, Ozymandias first appeared in Watchmen #1 as Adrian Veidt, the son of wealthy German-American immigrant parents.  As a child, he received high grades in school, and it was noted that he was very intelligent.  He then hid this information from his elders and peers by deliberately achieving average marks.  After his parents' deaths, he inherited their substantial fortune at age seventeen, but chose to give it all to charity as he wanted to make something of himself on his own.  Veidt embarked on a vision quest, following the route of his childhood idol Alexander the Great.  During an excursion into the Middle East, Veidt consumed a ball of hashish and saw visions of the past.  As he finished his travels in Egypt, he realized that Alexander was a pale imitation of Ramesses II, who became Veidt's new hero.  Returning to the US, he began training himself to achieve peak physical condition, becoming a world-class gymnast in the process.

At age nineteen, Veidt named himself Ozymandias (the Greek name for Ramesses II) and became a costumed vigilante, earning a reputation as "the smartest man on the planet” and using his physical skills to non-violently incapacitate opponents.  He debuted in early 1958 by exposing a drug ring in New York City.  An early attempt at his “bullet catch” trick worked, though it deprived him of the first three fingers of his right hand in the process.  Undeterred, Veidt had his entire hand replaced with a bionic prosthesis.  In 1966, he was invited by former Minuteman and adventurer Captain Metropolis to become a member of the Crimebusters, but the group never came to fruition due to the Comedian breaking up the meeting.  It was at this moment that Veidt began to believe superheroics were not enough to save the world, and began plotting to think of a method that could.

Due to the increasingly negative perceptions of vigilantes by the media, Veidt predicted that the public would turn away from them.  Two years before costumed heroes were banned by the Keene Act, Veidt revealed his secret identity, retired from superheroism and marketed his image.  He became very wealthy and was known as a great humanitarian, and used this to bankroll his secret scheme of creating a catastrophic event to deceive the world into uniting against a common enemy and thus avert nuclear war.  Upon completion of his project, Veidt planned to murder all of his (unwitting) accomplices and arrange the psychological deterioration and self-exile of the presumably invincible Doctor Manhattan.  Fellow vigilante Edward Blake, a.k.a. the Comedian, stumbled upon Veidt's plans.  This led Veidt to personally murder the Comedian at the beginning of Watchmen.

Veidt was first seen when Rorschach visited him to get his opinion on Blake's murder and to warn about a possible serial killer targeting superheroes.  Rorschach was unconvinced of Veidt's theory that Blake was assassinated by a bitter arch-rival.  Veidt was one of the few people attending Blake's funeral, at which he reminisced about the failed Crimebusters meeting.  Later, Veidt narrowly escaped an assassination attempt that left his assistant dead.  The would-be assassin died from an unseen cyanide capsule before Veidt could interrogate him.

Rorschach and Nite Owl deduced that Veidt was behind the whole plot, after they linked one of Veidt's shell companies to a plot to discredit Manhattan.  The duo realized that Veidt exposed Manhattan's former lover, colleagues, and an enemy to radiation and deliberately monitored them for cancer, so Manhattan would flee Earth out of either guilt or public enmity.  When Rorschach and Nite Owl arrived at Veidt's Antarctic retreat, he easily overpowered both of them and explained his plan to save humanity from itself -- teleporting a biologically-engineered, telepathic creature to New York, which would kill millions and convince the world that they were under extraterrestrial attack.  The US and the Soviet Union, on the brink of nuclear confrontation, would then join forces against the supposed alien invaders.  He also admitted to framing Manhattan. killing the Comedian. framing Rorschach for the murder of Moloch, and staging the attempt on his own life, killing his attacker in the process.  When Rorschach and Nite Owl asked him when he planned to execute his scheme, Veidt revealed that it was completed before they arrived, saying, "I did it thirty-five minutes ago."

When Doctor Manhattan and Silk Spectre confronted Veidt, he attempted to disintegrate Manhattan, but he soon reformed himself.  Silk Spectre attempted to shoot him, but he caught the bullet and knocked her out.  Realizing that exposing Veidt's plan would undo the early stages of world peace, most of the heroes agreed to remain silent on the plot. Rorschach, a moral absolutist, prepared to return to the US and reveal Veidt's plan to the world, but ultimately let Manhattan kill him.  Before Manhattan left Earth to create life in another galaxy, Veidt asked him if he "did the right thing in the end."  Manhattan replied that "nothing ever ends", leaving Veidt in doubt about how long the peace would last.  Unbeknownst to Veidt and the other characters, Rorschach previously mailed a journal to a newspaper detailing his findings about Veidt's plan.  It was left ambiguous whether the newspaper ultimately published its contents.

Irons will be the second actor to portray Ozymandias in live action, after Matthew Goode in the 2009 Watchmen film adaptation by Zack Snyder.

Watchmen is expected to debut on HBO sometime in 2019.