'Watchmen' will not be getting a second season

The first season of HBO's Watchmen is also the final season of Watchmen.

Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof told USA Today that he has no interest in doing a second season of the show that took inspiration from the famous graphic novel.

Normally this wouldn't deter a network from continuing on with a successful show, and Lindelof even gave HBO his blessing to make more Watchmen, but nope. HBO programming chief Casey Bloys told USA Today that they'd only be interested in making more Watchmen if Lindelof wanted to do it.

"It's really in Damon’s thinking about what he wants to do," she told USA Today. "If there's an idea that excited him about another season, another installment, maybe like a Fargo, True Detective (anthology) take on it, or if he wants to do something different altogether. We’re very proud of Watchmen, but what I’m most interested in what Damon wants to do."

About Watchmen, Bloys specifically said: "It would be hard to imagine doing it without Damon involved in some way."

And so the first season is all we have, and unless Lindelof or HBO change their minds at some point in the future, that final cliffhanger will just hang in mid-air forever.

But that's kind of nice, isn't it? To have a single season of something that never dragged on too long or took any weird creative turns in later seasons that upset fans? Or never give a popular musical artist a chance to bizarrely be inserted into a scene that destroys viewer immersion?

Let's just leave this one alone.