Watchmen review: A look at Angela’s history with Judd
With the death of Judd still hanging on our new characters, this week’s episode of Watchmen explored more of the history of this alternate timeline and Angela’s past.
This week’s Watchmen began to give us answers and then presented us with about a thousand more questions. When Angela begins to look into the death of Judd, she discovers more about the Chief, as well as more about herself than she ever thought possible. She is told that Judd had “skeletons in his closet” and so she goes to literally look in his closet at his memorial.
The sad part is that Angela isn’t disappointed. Judd was either the Grand Wizard of the KKK (or just a member) or had a family member who was one and preserved their robes in his home. Angela, shocked by the discovery, takes the robes to confront the man who killed him.
What Angela does learn is about her real family. Angela’s grandfather is named Will and is the man who hung Judd from the tree. A victim of the Tulsa Massacre, Will is still mainly a mystery but when Angela goes to see if he qualifies for the racial injustice beneficiary, she discovers her own familial connection to him.
The episode does give us a glimpse into the Christmas Eve that resulted in Angela being shot and “retiring” from the police force and we see how she became the mother of her children. When her partner was attacked in his home on that same night, they killed both he and his wife in bed, leaving his children without parents. So Angela takes the three in and wakes up in the hospital bed, seeing Judd first and thus their close-knit relationship begins.
So maybe part of her anger over the robes comes not from not knowing but more from a distrust of both Will and now Judd with neither party there to answer her questions as the end of the episode featured Will being taken in her car by a mysterious ship. So, basically, we’re left with a lot more questions and a few answers.
Worried that there’d be no Ozymandias, the biggest of drama queens? Don’t worry! Jeremy Irons returns on horseback. Eh, sorry, Ozymandias returns on horseback and seemingly lives the same day again, complete with a cake and a song and ending in a production of his five-act play and the death to one of his employees. Mr. Phillips plays Dr. Manhattan pre-blued and is burned alive only to reveal that Ozymandias has a bunch of clones of this man? (Honestly, Ozymandias is the biggest drama queen and it is kind of fascinating.)
It seems though that the more characters we meet, the less we can trust any of them all. But then again, we’re seeing this all through Angela’s eyes and who really knows if we can even trust Angela in the long run. It is anyone’s game.
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