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The Official Watchmen Podcast

Interview with Directors Nicole Kassell and Stephen Williams

The Official Watchmen Podcast

HBO

Tv & Film, After Shows

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Host Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Emmy®-nominated Watchmen executive producer/writer Damon Lindelof reunite to reflect on the series. Then Mazin is joined by Emmy®-nominated executive producers/directors Nicole Kassell and Stephen Williams to discuss their experiences working on Watchmen and the series’ cultural impact. The Official Watchmen Podcast is produced by HBO® in conjunction with Pineapple Street Studios. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can't hear one from

0:05.0

can't hear under a mask Angela.

0:09.0

Warms need air. Need it. Hi, I'm Craig Mason, and this is the official Watchman Podcast.

0:26.0

And much like Sister Knight's practical family car,

0:30.0

as it fell from the heavens, I have returned. And I'm here today to talk about the

0:36.8

multiple Emmy-nominated show Watchman and to do so I am joined today as always by executive producer and writer Damon Lindeloff,

0:47.6

but will also be joined by two of the key directors of the show, Nicki Cassell and Stephen Williams.

0:53.3

We're gonna start off, of course, with Damon.

0:56.1

And since we last spoke, well, the world's changed a bit.

1:00.7

These days, our faces are hidden, there is civil unrest, Titans of technology

1:06.6

continue to shape our existence in ways we don't understand. It seems

1:10.6

Damon like Watchman was as much a warning as a television show.

1:14.0

It's good to see you again on a screen.

1:18.0

The magic is different.

1:20.0

Separated by COVID.

1:22.0

For sure. It has been strange. I mean the virus is something that no one saw coming

1:26.7

and I don't think anyone could have predicted it. But I think that there are other elements of the show

1:31.4

particularly as it relates to the questions surrounding law

1:35.2

enforcement racial injustice and this reckoning I don't think this show

1:40.0

predicted any of that in fact I saw Yaya giving an interview. They asked him if he

1:45.9

thought that the show was predictive and he said, I don't know, maybe it came a

1:49.1

couple decades too late. Yeah. It's all a matter of perspective, but I sort of, I feel like there have been no shortage of incredible

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