Watchmen - Season 1, Episode 03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
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The series deals with the life of a group of masked vigilantes as outlaws. The series reveals the nostalgia of the pioneering graphic novel of the same name. In a short time, the chain was able to try to break its own new ground away from the past.
Jean Smart sauntered into the Watchmen adaptation on a pair of stilettos... and the world of this series suddenly got weirder, more fun, and much closer in style and feel to the original graphic novel.
This episode is an incredibly deep and layered exploration of Laurie's psyche, and all the damage that was done to her by the superheroic men in her life.
What's fascinating to watch is how Jean Smart's Laurie Blake wields her exacting, dry sense of humor like a lethal weapon that's designed to keep people off-balance and prone to telling on themselves.
"She Was Killed By Space Junk," is a downright genius episode that manages to bring an outsider's view onto the events of the first two episodes and give them a new perspective.
With her tough attitude and elaborate one-way calls to Mars, Jean Smart is extraordinarily fun to watch, but not quite as interesting to analyze. What you see is what you get.
The third episode of Watchmen, captured the best elements of the series' complex roots and aspirations, delivering a compelling character study and a vehement condemnation of self-indulgent idol worship, all while very much earning its last laugh.
