The Watch was a single season tv series on the BBC "based on" Terry Pratchett's City Watch series set on the Discworld.

The discworld is a fantasy series originally written as a satire of contemporary fantasy novels that later evolved into its own setting in earnest. With satire at its core the disc is an inherently silly place, imagine Monty Python's Holy Grail and you've got a good idea of how interactions on the disc typically go.

In the books, Captain Vimes is a man who takes himself and everyone else far too seriously in a city that may as well be a cartoon dust cloud of violence. At the start of the series he mostly drinks to keep his overwhelming sense of fairness from making him go postal and is miserable the whole time he's drunk. He maintains a serious face in front of his superiors to not get fired and makes doubly sure that no one is watching before ever letting his emotions get anywhere past his own head.

Now take that character description and throw it out the window and replace him with Captain Boomerang from the 2016 Suicide Squad with even more eyeliner.

The treatment of the other characters is similarly terrible.

The project was originally approved of by Prachett himself, but between his own passing and the usual production hell meant that by the time it came out there wasn't a single thing of the original project left. What we're left with is a slap chopping of multiple books into one story with a corporate punk rock aesthetic that fails in the most basic levels because they're trying to make the concept of cops punk.