Damon Lindelof's 2019 HBO limited series expanding the Watchmen universe, set in an alternate present-day Tulsa and centering the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as a foundational historical trauma.
Used superhero genre conventions to address American racial violence — making the Tulsa Race Massacre the dramatic core of a prestige TV series — demonstrating that genre entertainment could carry the weight of the most difficult American history.
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