I think it's fair to say that Damon Lindelof and his crew of writers, directors, and performers did not need to go this hard when it came to HBO's Watchmen. It would've been so easy to just hard-R adapt Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic series, cast John Cena as Doctor Manhattan and maybe, like, Walton Goggins as Rorschach*, and call it a day. Instead, this show decided to become a masterclass in updating an artwork for the era it's aged into, and the absolutely remarkable "This Extraordinary Being"—directed by Stephen Williams, written by …