Episode 7: Women, Power, and Stereotypes in HBO's Watchmen

The creators of HBO's Watchmen did a great job of subverting a lot of comic book story tropes. Instead of a plot that just revolves around literal good guys and bad guys, the lead character in the series is the badass African American Angela Abar, played by Regina Knight. Angela is a bakery owner and an ex-cop who moonlights as the vigilante Sister Night. In this podcast episode, three badass CMU students, Caroline Holmes, Clyzte Sun, and Cristina Pullen go under the hood to show the ways in which the show's creators fell into some unfortunate gendered and racial stereotypes when it came to the leading ladies of Watchmen: Angela Abar, Lady Trieu, and Laurie Blake.