Episode 674: Old Things in New Masks

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink 2019’s HBO television series based on Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s 1980s comic book, on the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, which figures prominently in the plot of the show. The show considers history, trauma, healing, and the role of memory in all of those.

And just in case you were wondering about the reliability of memory, Michael York wasn’t even in The Lion in Winter. In 1968, he was doing Romeo and Juliet. It was… Timothy Dalton!

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Episode 674: Old Things in New Masks originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]