This year has been a fantastic one for the superhero scene in pop culture. From "Endgame" to "Spiderman: Far From Home," to the newly released "Joker" starring Joaquin Phoenix, there practically is some kind of superhero piece for anyone.

And with the premiere of the new HBO series "Watchmen," that "for everyone" piece rings true.

The series, which is based off the comic of the same name, reimagines American society where the country has finally reconciled its long past of racism with reparations for African Americans. Robert Redford is president, the U.S. won the Vietnam war and colonized the country and Watergate never happens, causing Richard Nixon to be president for an additional several terms.

"Watchmen" then follows Tulsa, Oklahoma police detective Angela Abar (Regina King), a bakery owner by day and a vigilante by night, who seeks out an underground white supremacist group known as the Seventh Cavalry that seeks to revert the United States back to its pre-reparations society. The Cavalry has since been abolished when Redford imposed reparations (which are based off the real-life 1921 race riots that unfolded in Tulsa), but as the pilot unfolds we see how the group works and its ability to re-organize itself as a legitimate threat to this new contemporary American society.

There are so many reasons why I'm so excited to see this series unfold. One is its amplification of real-life historical events that we seldom hear about in history class. The Tulsa riot was one of the largest state-sponsored insurgencies on black Americans in recent U.S. history. It turned what was once a "black Wall Street" into ruins. I hope that "Watchmen" can help audiences engage with more of this unheard history.

Another dynamic I love about this show is that it dismantles some of our expectations of what a superhero series should look like. Not only do we see Regina King play a cunning, black, female superhero but also we see the antagonists as real-life antagonists that don't really face any scrutinization as we see in the show. The white supremacists are targeted and watched intensely as a national security threat, depicted in a way that it seems so hard to imagine in the real world.

The bottom line is "Watchmen" is an exceptional piece for anyone who loves the superhero genre, shows that can be classified as "woke" or simply both. Its pilot episode is an eye-gluing, mesmerizing and contemporary piece for how we should be tackling white supremacy in the real world.

New episodes of "Watchmen" premiere Sundays at 11/10c on HBO.