Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi!

Following on from his pieces accompanying Lovecraft Country, Stewart Hotston turns his attention to two other shows as well – Watchmen and The Boys

The reason I want to compare them is that they’re all relatively contemporary, all delivered by showrunners who care about the issues contained within and all tackle core issues around the type of society in which we want to live. The window through which I’m looking at them is how their BIPOC characters exercise agency against the shows’ main antagonists – all of whom are there explicitly to eradicate BIPOC both in the local context of the stories and also in the wider world of the shows.

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