HBO's Watchmen is the undisputed winner of the Television Critics Association's 2020 Awards, taking home four major awards that point toward a promising future at the Emmys later this month.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Damon Lindelof's acclaimed TV continuation of the iconic 1986 graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons won the coveted Program of the Year Award. In addition, Watchmen also won awards for Outstanding New Program and Outstanding Achievement In Movie, Miniseries, Or Special, as well as Individual Achievements in a Drama for actor Regina King, who played Angela Abar/Sister Knight. The show is currently up for a record total of 26 Emmy nominations at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Alongside Watchmen, a few other HBO programs managed to snag wins at the TCA. Succession received the Outstanding Achievement In Drama award while Robin Thede's sketch comedy series A Black Lady Sketch Show took home Outstanding Achievement In Sketch/Variety Shows. HBO and Watchmen's only major competition was the series Schitt's Creek, which won two awards for its sixth and final season.

Upon its release in the fall of last year, Watchmen received critical acclaim for its use of the superhero mythos to provide a scathing exploration and indictment of racial and power politics in America. Taking place 34 years after the events of the graphic novel in an alternate 2019, the show explores a massive conspiracy across Tulsa, Okla., that weaves together generations of institutionalized racism, police brutality and a rebirth of white supremacy.

Despite releasing in late 2019, many of its themes have since gained new significance in 2020, including the use of masks for protection during COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests causing a reckoning over U.S. police upholding systems of white supremacy following the deaths of following George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Most notably, Watchmen's depiction of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre marked the first time many U.S. viewers actually learned about the incident, despite happening almost a century ago and being one of America's worst recorded cases of racial violence.

Developed by Damon Lindelof, HBO's Watchmen stars Jeremy Irons, Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Jean Smart, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tom Mison, James Wolk, Adelaide Clemens, Andrew Howard, Frances Fisher, Jacob Ming-Trent, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, Lily Rose Smith and Adelynn Spoon.

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