Matt Grossman

“There are no maps. You can’t map a sense of humor.” -Sir Terry Pratchett I feel like the negative reviews are all wanting a carbon copy of the books and characters they love. I love those books too, but this quote from their author had always reminded me to not be too precious with this secondhand universe. The Sky movies have shown me I don’t really WANT to see the Discworld on screen as it is on the page. The whole point of The Watch books is that you sometimes have to begrudgingly accept things that are different and learn from them. While very definitely it’s own “inspired by” take, I quite liked the first episode of The Watch. It’s imaginative, stylish, and has a great sense of humor, and maybe most surprisingly; still has the heart of The Watch I love from the books. I loved it. It works as a police procedural, and setting it in this insane city with this fantastic cast portraying these wonderful characters might literally be the only way you’d get me to watch one of those.