What happened to us? What happened to the American Dream?

Watchmen S01E01
It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice

Regina King as Angela Abar in Watchmen S01E01:“It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”

1.01 | 1.02

Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I’ve longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in human coupling, millions upon millions of cells compete to create life, for generation after generation until, finally, your mother loves a man: Edward Blake, the Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate, and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds, it’s you — only you — that emerged. To distill so specific a form, from all that chaos; it’s like turning air into gold. A miracle. Now dry your eyes, and let’s go home.

WATCHMEN
2009 | dir. Zack Snyder

“People’s lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and sometimes they can’t talk about them… I know how that is.”

– Watchmen (2009) dir. Zack Snyder

Watchmen S01E06
This Extraordinary Being