Browsing: Lanterns

From episode one, Lanterns has made it clear that Hal Jordan and John Stewart don’t trust each other. But we really thought that when the chips are down and things get bad, these guys would pull it together and figure out how to work with one another. After all, these guys are heroes, right? Yet,…

In brightest day, in blackest night, no spoilers for “Lanterns” Episode 5 shall escape my sight. Beware!

As DC Studios’ HBO Max series Lanterns earns increasingly more goodwill with each episode, Marvel Studios seems intent on taking the plunge into the same genre, though potentially with a downgrade. Despite the box office failure of Supergirl, James Gunn’s DCU is in full swing, with Lanterns dropping new episodes every Sunday night as its…

In HBO’s “Lanterns,” actor Aaron Pierre plays John Stewart, one of the DC Comics superheroes to hold the mantle of Green Lantern. But just over two years ago, he also stepped into the shoes of a real-life hero and delivered a powerhouse performance in a biographical TV drama that’s often overlooked: National Geographic’s “Genius.”

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Hal Jordan is dead on a set of football bleachers in Rushville, Nebraska. Shot, ring gone. That’s the pilot, not the finale, not some mid-season gut punch, and Lanterns has been shredding the manual ever since. A small-town murder case where the space opera should be. Two timelines, 2016 and 2026. John Stewart’s origin rebuilt…

“Lanterns” Episode 4 introduces a character by the name of Hector Hammond, a name that should be familiar to any Green Lantern fan. But the show quickly switches things up by revealing the character to be someone else entirely — which raises the question of what on earth the writers are trying to do with…

Marvel Studios may be taking a page from DC’s playbook with a rumored new series that leans into a completely different genre. The studio is reportedly developing a detective-focused show, though details remain under wraps.

Lanterns has flipped the script on Green Lantern stories in a major way. Though decades of DC Comics have prepared fans for intergalactic war and fan theories about the Blackest Night storyline and the incorporation of the Red Lanterns, the DCU TV series has gone another way. Inspired more by True Detective, Lanterns has proven…

In episode four of HBO Max’s Lanterns, Hal Jordan’s investigation into the Manhunters leads him to a name that he in the show doesn’t seem to know. Hal visits Atlas Inc. looking for its CEO, a little someone named Hector Hammond. This is a name comic book fans know very well, and you’d expect Hal…