“Watching Watchmen” (HBO, 2019) intends to analyze how Damon Lindelof’s limited TV series could be considered as an example of successful transmediadaptation, acting as a bridge to a beloved comic book while creating a narrative entity that completely holds on its own. As the series offers a continuation of the original comic book, thus creating a transmedia narrative experience for the readers/viewers, it also retroactively updates some of the original content that was intentionally left uncertain in the original comic and enables the series to shape itself into a brand-new story arc. In that space of negotiation between the original narrative and the series, adaptation truly takes shape as the writers’ room adapted what made Watchmen relevant during its original release to the ills of contemporary America.