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Watchmen: HBO's Peabody Award-Winner Free for Juneteenth Weekend

In honor of Juneteenth and in memory of those murdered during the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, HBO will be offering all nine episodes of Damon Lindelof's Peabody Award-winning series Watchmen for free. Starting Friday, June 19, and running through Sunday, June 21, Lindelof's pseudo-sequel to Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins' comic book classic starring Academy Award winner Regina King will be available exclusively on HBO.com and Free On Demand.

In addition, a marathon of the series is scheduled for HBO and HBO Latino starting at 1 pm ET/PT on Friday, June 19 (episode 101 at 1 pm; episode 102 at 2:03 pm; episode 103 at 2:58 pm; episode 104 at 3:51 pm; episode 105 at 4:43 pm; episode 106 at 5:43 pm; episode 107 at 6:44 pm; episode 108 at 7:42 pm; and episode 109 at 8:45 pm). Juneteenth (also referred to as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day) is an unofficial holiday that commemorates the date in 1865 when Texas officially proclaimed that all enslaved persons were now free, making it the final state in the union to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and marking the end of slavery in the United States.

A Look Back at Bleeding Cool's Watchmen Reviews

Bleeding Cool praised how powerful the Nicole Kassell (Castle Rock)-directed series premiere "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" was (check out our review here), while "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship" kept the momentum going by deepening the conspiracies at play (review here). Jean Smart's Agent Laurie Blake took center stage in "She Was Killed by Space Junk", elevating the tension while serving as "devil's advocate" (review here).

"If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own" (review here), introduced us to Lady Trieu (Hong Chau), saw Angela (Regina King) look to Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson) for help when things started hitting too close to home and revealed how Adrian (Jeremy Irons) "trains" new servants as his escape attempts continued We learned Wade Tillman aka Looking Glass' "origin story" (and possibly his final days) in "Little Fear of Lightning" (our review here), as Agent Blake places Angela under arrest but not before she goes "nostalgic".

Angela comes to understand her true past and the truth about "This Extraordinary Being" Will (Louis Gossett Jr. – review here), a truth that starts with the formation of the Minutemen. "An Almost Religious Awe" (our review here) brought with it the major reveal that Dr. Manhattan has been with us the entire time, and he's a major part of the Seventh Kalvary's plan.

With the penultimate episode "A God Walks into Abar" (review here), we were offered a look back at the seeds of Angela and "Cal's" tragic (and apocalyptic) love story – the heart of our series. Which brought us to season/series finale "See How They Fly", where the machinations of the Seventh Kalvary, Sen. Keene, Lady Trieu, "Calhattan", Adrian, Angela, and Agent Laurie come to a head – as the world of Lindelof's Watchmen comes to an end… and to a beginning (review here).

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