‘Watchmen’ Team on Show’s Approach to Historic Racial Atrocity: ‘Imagine What Else You Don’t Know’
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variety.comJoe Otterson TV Reporter“Watchmen” picked up 26 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, making it the most nominated show of the year.
Part of the critical praise the HBO limited series received was due to its exploration of a real moment in American history that is often overlooked: the Tulsa massacre of 1921, in which white citizens attacked an affluent Black neighborhood known as Black Wall Street, killing people and burning stores and homes to the ground.“We wanted people to understand that even in the context of this piece of fiction that the show started with something that really happened,” series creator Damon Lindelof told Variety. “For me, I didn’t know about Tulsa until about two years before we made the show.
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