| | | We'll walk you through the first episode of this brilliant new show. | | If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser. | | | | |  | | | | HBO's Watchmen Might Be the Most Challenging Series Premiere of All Time | | | | To understand the baggage of Watchmen is to understand the history of comic books—and their transition to the biggest Hollywood genre of the modern era. Watchmen, a 12-issue comic series in the mid-'80s by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, fundamentally changed the medium as we know it. Comic books were still considered a lesser form of children's entertainment when Moore and Gibbons's political, deeply thought-provoking Watchmen series proved that superhero stories could be as challenging as any work of dramatic literature. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | If This Mossack Fonseca Investigation Is Real, I Wonder What Will Turn Up in Russia | | | | Before we dive into the algae-coated chaos that is Camp Runamuck, we should pay some attention to a couple of other interesting developments. Right now, Netflix is running a film called The Laundromat, a Steven Soderburgh work that traces the massive—and allegedly criminal—operations of an offshore law firm called Mossack Fonseca, whose extraordinarily vast alleged money-laundering and asset-hiding empire was revealed through a huge leak of the firm's documents in 2016 that came to be known as The Panama Papers. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Bonobos Just Added an Extra 40% Off to Its Final Sale Items | | | | It's that time of year where stores must clear their racks (both physical and virtual) to make room for winter clothing. It's only felt like fall outside for a week though, so lucky for us, we're still shopping for transitional clothing. At Bonobos, all sales are an extra 40 percent off right now with code EXTRA40. From basic tees to full suits, don't sleep on these sales. Plus, doesn't it always feel so nice to see that extra-extra percent off come out of your cart when you checkout? We scoured the sale for the 23 best picks so you wouldn't have to. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Watchmen's Tulsa Opening Is a Chilling Reminder of a Horrifying Moment in American History | | | | HBO's Watchmen opens in 1921 during the Tulsa Race Massacre, a deeply disturbing real stain on American history, where, on May 31, 1921, a mob of white people attacked a black community. We first see a young boy watching a silent news reel as the violence is breaking out around a theater. He's swept away from the violence by his mother and father and later comes back at the end of the first episode. We see men in KKK white firing guns at helpless men and women. We see planes actually dropping bombs on this small community. It's chilling, and although Watchmen takes place in an alt-history, this event actually took place. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | The Real Story Behind Catherine the Great's Mythologized Sex Life | | | | Legends abound about Catherine the Great—the good kind and the bad kind. In the plus column, the longest-reigning empress of Russia transformed her empire into one of Europe's great and enduring powers, annexing over 200,000 miles of land, building over 100 new towns, and fostering a golden age of development for the arts and sciences. However, Catherine wasn't simply a great conqueror—she was also an enlightened intellectual and a forward-thinking trailblazer, a woman who championed vaccination, uplifted female artists, exchanged letters with leading philosophers like Voltaire, wrote memoirs, and penned the first works of children's literature published in Russia. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Follow Us | | | | | | | | Unsubscribe Privacy Notice | | | esquire.com
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