Damon Lindelof Heard Some ‘Hard Truths’ in the ‘Watchmen’ Writer’s Room

A conversation about race with the Watchmen creator, who was challenged by the most diverse group of writers in his career

Tirhakah Love
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8 min readOct 23, 2019

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Illustration: Mark Hill/HBO

DDamon Lindelof’s new HBO series, Watchmen, finds the writer and show-runner a very long way from the “middle-aged white men and women having…

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Tirhakah Love
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African from Texas• Staff Writer at LEVEL • Black politics, Celebrity interviews, TV & Film Criticism • Previously: MTV News, San Francisco Chronicle