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Black actors make Emmys history with the most wins in a single year

The Los Angeles Times 21 Sep 2020
At 24, Zendaya became the youngest performer ever to win lead actress in a drama series for her harrowing turn as Rue in “Euphoria.” And King tied screen icon Alfre Woodard for the most Emmys won by a Black performer with her lead actress in a limited series victory for her performance as Angela Abar in “Watchmen.”.
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Damon Lindelof on Possibility of Watchmen Season 2

Coming Soon 03 Jul 2020
“I am seeing a lot of people who respond to the show are catalyzed and interested in what the world would look like if it were being reshaped by Angela Abar,” Lindelof said. “I don’t have a good answer to that question, but that’s why it cut to black when it did (laughs).
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Watchmen star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's The Trial of the Chicago 7 movie heads to Netflix

Digital Spy 02 Jul 2020
Related ... Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who played Cal Abar in HBO's Watchmen and Black Manta in Aquaman , will play defendant Bobby Seale in the movie, alongside the likes of Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, and Mark Rylance ... Related. New on Netflix this week ... It's not all bad news, though, as Damon did later reveal that he would \ ....
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Regina King unveils first image from directorial debut ‘One Night In Miami’

NME 20 Jun 2020
It will be the first feature film directed by King, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk, and who stars as Angela Abar, aka Sister Night, in HBO’s Watchmen. Black history IS American history! I am so excited that ...
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Damon Lindelof ‘Is Thinking’ About ‘Watchmen’ Season 2 – ‘Hard to Imagine’ Doing It Without ...

The Wrap 15 Jan 2020
Ever sinceWatchmen” ended its first season with the a fade to black just before Angela Abar (Regina King) was going to find out if she could walk on water, fans have been waiting for any news about a potential second season ... The show has not been renewed for a second season, despite performing well for HBO ... Also Read.
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How Damon Lindelof steered HBO's TV adaptation of Watchmen to its incredible conclusion

The Independent 17 Dec 2019
Black Mirror (2011- ) ... Black Mirror (2011- ) ... Reinventing Watchmen by making its subject white supremacy rather than the Cold War – not to mention making its hero Angela Abar (King), an avenging black police-ninja – also meshes with Moore’s critique of the superhero genre, as he put it in a 2016 interview.
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Watchmen Finale Recap: A Most Worthy Adversary

New York Magazine 16 Dec 2019
Over the course of its inaugural season, Watchmen has been a ...
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Exclusive: Watchmen's Yahya Abdul-Mateen II responds to trolls who think the show is too political

Digital Spy 13 Dec 2019
Watchmen says something new about race, trauma, and the exploitation of Black bodies on screen Just like co-star Regina King before him, Cal Abar/Dr ...
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A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: ‘Watchmen’ and the intersection of comic books ...

Alternet 13 Dec 2019
As it turns out, the lord of subatomic matter, time, and space has been walking among us for all this time in the body of a black man. We know him as Cal Abar (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), husband to Angela Abar (Regina King), who operates under the masked persona of Sister Night ... Life doesn’t begin that way for Angela Abar.
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The Importance of Watchmen ’s Latest Twist

The Atlantic 09 Dec 2019
God exists, and he’s not only American, folks; he’s black ... As for being a black man playing one of the most powerful characters in comic history, Abdul-Mateen said the significance didn’t strike him until after the series began airing. Black superheroes exist, of course, but they’re a rarity in Watchmen .
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‘Watchmen’ episode 6 may be the best TV episode of 2019

The Daily Dot 25 Nov 2019
After swallowing a bottle full of pills containing her grandfather’s memories, Angela Abar falls into a series of black-and-white flashbacks, beginning with a young Will Reeves (Jovan Adepo) joining the NYPD ...Beware the Cyclops,” says another Black officer when Reeves first joins the force.
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“Watchmen” reimagines Moore’s comic in Tulsa history

The Collegian 21 Nov 2019
Like many of the black residents of Tulsa, Abar is a descendant of those living in Tulsa during the race massacre, but unlike many of them she spent her much of her life in South Vietnam, the 51st state in the union. Additionally, Abar gains a pseudo-antagonist in Laurie Jupiter, one of the original “Watchmen,” who, by 2019, hunts masked vigilantes.
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The coolest Easter eggs in HBO’s ‘Watchmen’

The Daily Dot 19 Nov 2019
The comic’s best-known example is the serialized pirate horror story Tales of the Black Freighter, which the show references on a couple of occasions. a Black Freighter Inn in Tulsa, and the egg farmer in episode 3 reading the novel Fogdancing by Max Shea, who wrote Tales of the Black Freighter.
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