HBO's Watchmen (spoilers)

[FlameOn]

Watchmen director leaves. HBO will not be renewing the show for a second season

Despite the commercial and critical success of HBO’s Watchmen, the network will not pursue a second season.

In an interview with USA Today, Casey Bloys, HBO’s president of programming, said that creator Damon Lindelof was not interested in bringing the show back. “It’s really in Damon’s thinking about what he wants to do,” Bloys said. “If there’s an idea that excited him about another season, another installment, maybe like a Fargo, True Detective anthology take on it, or if he wants to do something different altogether. We’re very proud of Watchmen, but what I’m most interested in is what Damon wants to do.”

Although Lindelof had previously stated he was “thinking” about a second season of Watchmen as long as he had the right idea and the right motivation, that evidently never came to fruition. In a follow-up with USA Today, Lindelof said that he has already told the story he wanted to tell and is ready to move on. However, he did say he has “given his blessing” should HBO want to go forward with another creator.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-t...elof-bows-out/

[KTrain]

It sucks we won't get more but I'd rather this than a sub-par season 2 by someone else. It was a great self-contained season.

[Rando]

https://variety.com/2020/tv/awards/w...es-1203510971/

In the ongoing saga of whether HBO’s “Watchmen” will continue after its initial, acclaimed season late last year, the pay cable network announced on Friday that it is reclassifying the show from a drama series to a limited series, including for “any possible future installments.”

The move aligns HBO’s awards season campaign for “Watchmen” with how executive producer and showrunner Damon Lindelof had talked about the show from the start, as a self-contained story with a beginning, middle and end, rather than an ongoing story told over multiple seasons.

But the reclassification also underlines the uncertainty of whether “Watchmen” will return at all, especially given HBO’s equivocating on “possible” new iterations of the show.

[PsYcNeT]

Doesn't need a second season. Let it exist as the only good adaptation put on film.