This Exclusive Watchmen Swatch Is Yours When You Subscribe To HBO Go On Toggle

And Oscar and Emmy winner Regina King plays one such persona non grata — a cop by day, and a masked vigilante named Sister Night, er, by night. The nine-part series, which premieres Monday (Oct 21) centres on Sister Night’s investigation into a white supremacist group.

A deconstruction and a satire of the comic book superhero, the original Watchmen was once thought to be “unfilmable” because it’s too sprawling and complex to made into a feature. That was until Zack Synder cracked the code with his 2009 adaptation, which opened to mixed reviews.

The TV series — which also stars Jeremy Irons, Jean Smart and Don Johnson — has nothing to do with that movie, but promises to be just as massive, mingled, and subversive as the iconic source material.

“For those who love learning about historical events, for those who love the graphic novel, and for people who just like new out-of-the-box type stuff, that’s all in the show,” says King in Entertainment Weekly. (If you know little or Jack about the comic books, click here for a primer.)

But Watchmen isn’t the only one vying to be your next favourite HBO show, now that Game of Thrones is out of the picture.

There’s also the His Dark Materials, dropping Nov 5. Based on Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy, the fantasy saga stars Logan’s Dafne Keen as an orphan girl searching for her missing pal in a parallel universe where people wear their souls outside of their bodies, in the form of animals or daemons.​​​​​​​The eight-part first season (a second one is already in production) also stars James McAvoy, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Ruth Wilson. The first book in the trilogy was made into a lackluster 2007 feature film starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman.

Both Watchmen and His Dark Materials will tide us over until the return of Westworld (Season 3 is partly filmed in Singapore!) in the first half of next year. But that’s another story for another time.

To mark the launch of Watchmen, Toggle is giving away an exclusive Watchmen Swatch (worth $100 and not sold in any Swatch outlets) with each HBO Go annual subscription at $119.98 (that’s under $10 per month) on Toggle.

A total of these 200 limited edition timepieces are up for grabs. The promotion is valid till Nov 30. While stocks last. To subscribe, click here.

Watchmen premieres Oct 21 (Mon), HBO (Toggle, Singtel TV Ch 420, StarHub Ch 601), 9am; same day as the US. His Dark Materials premieres Nov 5 (Tue), 10am. Both shows are also on HBO Go.

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