This Free Streaming Marathon Couldn’t Have Had a Better Timing

With recent protests against racism and police brutality plaguing the United States of America, there couldn’t have been a better time to highlight the agenda of “Black Lives Matter” and that’s what HBO is going to do by making available for anyone to watch for free all the episodes of its hit television series ‘Watchmen‘ which premiered few months ago.

The streaming will start on June 19th, to commemorate ‘Juneteenth’, the day slavery ended in USA, through Sunday, June 21 on HBO’s website. This is part of the network’s initiative to highlight “Black experiences, voices, and storytellers”. The company in a recent release said, “HBO is proud to offer all nine episodes for free of this timely, poignant series that explores the legacy of systemic racism in America”.

The series takes its inspiration from the 1986 comics series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The story ranges from superhereos to the stigma related with race and the consequential trauma. It’s set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of the real-life 1921 Tulsa massacre, which is also depicted in the opening moments of the show.

Regina King, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Jeremy Irons starrer show, takes you back and forth between different eras, but nowhere the focus is lost from the issue of race in America. Watchmen was critically well acclaimed for the way it handled the matter of systemic racism and how the American police force is effected because of white supremacy.