At long last, Watchmen: Chapter II ( now streaming on VOD services like Amazon Prime Video ) will confirm whether an a/v adaptation of the celebrated Don’t Call It A Comic Book (Call It A Graphic Novel) will have the guts to follow through with writer/creator Alan Moore’s nutty-ass vision and drop a gigantic brainsquid on top of New York City. Watchmen: Chapter I (which recently hit streaming via Max ) established the dense story’s alt-’80s setting and morally fraught characters, then left us hanging with no means of seeing how it concludes – although it was so deferent to the source material, none of this should come as a surprise for fans of this highly influential saga about retired superheroes living in the ever-darkening shadow of the Cold War. WATCHMEN: CHAPTER II : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? The Gist: Let’s ketchup: World War III is brewing.
Russia and the U.S. are pointing nukes at each other more aggressively by the hour.
Rorschach (Titus Welliver), he of the morphing-inkblot mask, has been framed for the murders of his former associate The Comedian (Rick D. Wasserman) and ex-supervillain Moloch, and tossed in prison. Separated from her all-knowing, all-seeing, all-blue and always-balls-out-nude husband Dr.
Manhattan (Michael Cerveris) – incredibly separated, because he lives on Mars now in his quasi-Fortress of Solitude so he may ponder the universe all by his lonesome – Silk Spectre (Katee Sackhoff) is staying with Nite Owl (Matthew Rhys). And Ozymandias.