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Watchmen
Little Fear of Lightning
Directed by
Steph Green
TV-MA
S1 • E5
Nov 17, 2019
60m
8.9
7.3
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The origin story of Looking Glass is at last revealed, as is the truth behind the greatest hoax in American history. Far away, The Smartest Man In The World plots a daring escape.
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Cast of Little Fear of Lightning
Regina King
Angela Abar / Sister Night
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Cal Abar
Jeremy Irons
Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
Jean Smart
Laurie Blake
Tom Mison
Mr. Phillips / Game Warden
Sara Vickers
Ms. Crookshanks
Jacob Ming-Trent
Panda
Andrew Howard
Red Scare
Paula Malcomson
Renee
Steve Coulter
Simmons
Chris Whitley
Captain Metropolis
Philip Labes
Young Wade Tillman
Julia Vasi
Roxy
Karen Beyer
Well Dressed Woman
Michael Rubino
Police Officer
Ariel Milner
Child
Tim Peek
Elder
Eileen Grubba
Cynthia Tillman
Ryan Hope Travis
Jerry
Austin Freeman
Knot Top
Watchmen - S1 • E5 Ratings & Reviews
AwardsWatch
Dewey Singleton
Tim Blake Nelson is a wonderful compliment to Regina King and I truly can't imagine this series without those two.
Lainey Gossip
Sarah Marrs
This is another perfect example of Watchmen walking the line of grounded reality and superhero fantasy. I think it treads this boundary better than any other attempt at "dark and gritty" superheroes.
Tell-Tale TV
Kevin Lever
Watchmen continues to deliver something unlike anything else on television, a character-driven fine line of masterful writing and careful revealing that weaves with great success toward something we may not know yet, but feels greater by the episode.
Cultured Vultures
Huw Saunders
Through focusing in on one character, Watchmen steps back to take on a wider viewpoint. And as it looks into the abyss, the abyss looks right back.
Flickering Myth
Martin Carr
With an inventive use for frozen corpses, a little funhouse action and some Robert Redford revelations and Watchmen continues to up the ante.
Vox
Constance Grady
Even with minimal knowledge of the comic, the squid attack still lands; it's a moment of pure Lovecraftian horror, and I absolutely buy that it would traumatize Looking Glass forever.
Vox
Allegra Frank
A squid attack feels normal enough for Watchmen, despite its inherent absurdity. It's the impact of the attack that is meaningful, sculpting Looking Glass into the lonely, sexually repressed man we've come to know in the episode's contemporary storyline.
Tor.com
Leah Schnelbach
The image of Young Wade, naked, screaming "WHAT HAPPENED???" as the camera pans back to reveal the Squid in Manhattan, may be one of the best pieces of television I've ever watched.
Vox
Emily VanDerWerff
"Little Fear of Lightning" is a character showcase, following Looking Glass for nearly its entire running time. But "Lightning" tells a darker and sadder story about what it means to live in a world where you survived an experience that's roughly as rare.
Tom & Lorenzo
Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
That push-pull of the fantastical and the disturbingly mundane is part of what's making this show so completely engrossing.
The Undefeated
Soraya Nadia McDonald
In a show that doesn't shirk on backstories, even for minor characters, Little Fear of Lightning is uniquely illuminating.
The Ringer
Daniel Chin
Officially past the halfway point of the season, Watchmen is finally beginning to answer more questions than it raises.
The Daily Dot
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Watchmen's America is as messed up as our own, just in a different way. The main storyline is about racism and injustice in Tulsa, but as the show zooms out, we see that everything is being manipulated behind the scenes by powerful white men.
Rolling Stone
Alan Sepinwall
Few traumas imaginable are greater than nearly being killed in a world-altering alien attack, and we see throughout "Little Fear of Lightning" just how much Wade's life has been defined by that incident, and the nature of his survival.
New York Times
Scott Tobias
The episode is a clever subversion of the superhero origin story. None of the Watchmen beyond Dr. Manhattan have real superpowers, but Looking Glass is defined by his weakness and vulnerability, which are not traditionally heroic qualities.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Angelica Jade Bastién
There are moments that split our lives in two. Cleaving life into a unique before and after. For Wade Tillman, most often referred to as his alias Looking Glass, such a moment came in 1985 Hoboken.
indieWire
Ben Travers
"Little Fear of Lightning" grounds its arc in Wade's journey, which gives the audience a literal human tether, and further still, really, it's all based around one question: "What happened?"
Entertainment Weekly
Christian Holub
As a Tim Blake Nelson fan, I've been dying to know more about Looking Glass since the show began. So what more could I want from a new episode than a deep dive into his backstory and an honest-to-god depiction of the squid?!
Entertainment Weekly
Chancellor Agard
In last week's episode, the ever-cynical Laurie told Angela, "People who wear masks are driven by trauma"... Wade is a prime example of what Laurie said about vigilantes in last week's episode.
AV Club
Joelle Monique
Religion, PTSD, and that insidious plot give us three new themes to marinade in. Plus, they actually drop the squid! Comic book fans rejoice, we have been avenged.
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