1/3/2021
Terry Pratchett s beloved Discworld book series gets another TV adaptation, this time as a police procedural for BBC America, with Matt Berry and Wendell Pierce in supporting roles.
“Is this death?” asks a character in the inky-black opening scene of BBC America’s fantasy police dramedy
The Watch, addressing a hooded figure whose only visible attributes are his pointed claws, his gleaming sword and his glowing, blue-hued not-quite-eyes. “Obviously,” deadpans Death (voiced by an unseen Wendell Pierce). It’s not the stylized Grim Reaper that unnerves, but the ease with which the deceased man, police chief Sam Vimes (Richard Dormer), accepts his bleak destiny.