The Roush Review
Sundays, 9/8c, HBO
MASKS ARE ALL the rage in HBO’s mesmerizing, mystifying and overstuffed fantasia inspired by the 1980s cult comic . Bad guys wear them—so do cops and costumed vigilantes—and it’s not always clear just who the heroes are. Visionary writer-producer Damon Lindelof (, ) chose not to remake the influential graphic novel but to use it as canon for a sprawling and disturbing new fable set 30-plus years later. (I now know how some viewers felt diving into that complex world lacking intimate details of the dense mythology.)
