Episode 8 of HBO’s Watchmen series offered plenty of revelations — and of course, a few more mysteries — about the story playing out on the screen. Here are some of the key elements you might have missed or simply didn’t know about that can make the Watchmen viewing experience even better.
(Editor’s note: This article was originally published December 9,2019, and has been republished now that the entire series is available to watch for free on HBO.com.)
HBO’s Watchmen series has swiftly become one of television’s hottest series, and the show based on the groundbreaking comic book series isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.
So far, the series has been filled with call-outs to its source material and clues about where the story is headed, with each episode offering even more Easter Eggs and mysteries for fans to ponder. Here’s what to know about episode 8 of the series.
(Note: Plot details from the most recent episode of Watchmen will be discussed below, so make sure you’re caught up with the series to avoid spoilers.)
After episode 7’s big surprise, the newly revealed Dr. Manhattan — who was hiding in the body of Calvin, Angela Abar’s husband — is forced to catch up quickly with the last few years’ events as the threat from the 7th Kavalry arrives (quite literally) on their doorstep. In order to process their current predicament, Dr. Manhattan recaps the key events that brought him and Angela together and up to the present moment in a time-hopping expositional sequence.
While Dr. Manhattan navigates his own timeline, Angela accidentally sets in motion the events that brought her grandfather, Will Reeves (a.k.a. Hooded Justice), to Tulsa and led to him murdering Judd Crawford — essentially kick-starting the entire series and bringing them to this very point. We also learn that it was Adrian Veidt who gave Dr. Manhattan the device that allowed him to hide within Calvin’s body and mind with no memory of his superhuman self, and that Veidt willingly exiled himself on Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, where Dr. Manhattan created a utopian paradise decades earlier.
