10 Worst TV Villains Of The Last 10 Years

Damon Lindelof’s ambitious quasi-sequel to Watchmen had far loftier ambitions than a simple superhero series, and for the most part it achieved its goals admirably. The social commentary was genuinely bold (winding up the weirdos on the socials in the process), and the scenes with Ozymandias on Europa were often genuinely breathtaking.

The series only occasionally tipped its hat to more standard comic book fare, and it was here that it came unstuck. Lady Trieu, the antagonist/antivillain of the piece, never quite worked as the focus of the story’s climax.

While she was given an interesting backstory (the daughter of Adrian Veidt courtesy of stolen sperm) and was portrayed excellently by Hong Chau, she was properly introduced too late in the day, and more problematically had a rote evil mission. She felt the world was an unfair place, wanted to rebuild it in her image, and would go to any extremes in order to achieve this.

Watchmen was idiosyncratic and brave for the most part but this could have come out of any factory produced Marvel movie of the last decade. In bowing to genre convention, the show lost its momentum at the worst possible moment.