Proof Watchmen is titled in name only
From the Nicole Kassell, EP and director:
“Like a lot of us, I was left reeling from [the] election of 2016. So, wrestling, personally, with what’s happening in this country, when I read the pilot, honestly, I was shaking,” Kassell explained. “It felt like this is the answer, to me, for what I can do now to respond to this political time. As hard and scary as it is to take on, I’m so grateful to have been a part of it.”
Now what the hell does the 2016 election have anything to do with Watchmen? Because the EP is bitter that their candidate lost, she's going to exude her bitterness through the show that she is producing and directing at the cost of the integrity of the source material. That is unacceptable!