LANTERNS on HBO - In brightest day / Make a little love / Get down tonight

Coach Taylor, Aaron Pierre, Kelly MacDonald, Garrett Dillahunt & Jason Ritter already so far in Episode 1

And it seems… good??

Let’s fucking go <3

I liked Joe Gross's take via Bluesky:

LANTERNS is an interesting show. It does feel like a repurposed TRUE DETECTIVE knock-off with DC space cops.

This seems valid as, historically, GL is always more fun in theory than in practice. So making him a sketchy astronaut type is clever. Arron Pierre is fun and Garret Dillahunt shows up.

Well it was literally pitched as “True Detective but with aliens” iirc so honestly, no lies told?

I absolutely love Aaron Pierre (and not just bc he’s a smokeshow) - he seems really well cast so far, at least going off first ep - and he’s great playing off Chandler

Was really enjoying this and then the Scud Mountain Boys song at the end made it automatic next level for me

I’d never heard them before!

enjoyed this more than i thought i would from the early word about it - as i think i said in the dcu thread, true detective + magical space cops doesn't seem like a natural or even particularly desirable fit, but the first episode does a decent job of weaving them together

i could have done without the overuse of swearing, which felt a bit try-hard 'this ain't yer ryan reynolds green lantern, kids!', but i'm never realistically going to pass up an opportunity to watch kyle chandler being rumpled and kelly macdonald being exasperated

chandler's recitation of his origin story was great - john only has to lightly push him before it all comes spilling out and he tells it like he's said it a million times but never quite gotten over how weird it was

i'm not entirely convinced that this hal jordan has the exact same origin as the comic book one, though - chandler is playing him with a kind of brash shiftiness that makes me wonder if he wasn't more actively involved somehow in taking the ring from abin sur

given the developments in the final couple of minutes

and that john was at pains to explain in 2016 that sectors only get one lantern at a time, i'm keen to find out 1) how guy gardner has a ring in the superman movie when hal apparently still had his up until the point he got domed and 2) whether john has a ring in 2026 too, given that he notably arrives at the scene of the crime in a regular-ass vehicle

also wondering why hal got so... upset when the guy he was interrogating started reciting the green lantern oath

and why hal's ring hadn't been backed up in a decade...

I love that line from Hal/ Chandler re the origin story “I can’t tell if he said good luck or fuck you”

I think a scene was inspired by this article https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-played-the-boys-are-back-in-town-on-a-bar-jukebox-until-i-got-kicked-out-832/

Also this Mulaney bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7Gryt-rcc

TRUE DETECTIVE knock-off with DC space cops.

Strikes me more as Jack Reacher with superpowers (the Reacher books, I mean--I've never seen the show.) Getting in fights with local toughs, meets some rich guy who basically owns the small town, etc.

Well the episode 2 exposition dumptruck has arrived - homework time, Lanterns fans

(But I’m still onboard)

Indeed! And who wouldn’t want an Earl.

lol yes! Not at all what I expected but how cool!

Well I immediately went to the wiki for Martian Manhunter after this episode, to understand his connection to Green Lantern (beyond being fellow Justice League members)… only to eventually figure out these Manhunters are not that Manhunter

I want to think sheriff Kelly is my prime candidate for Manhunter in disguise- but Zoe’s got my antenna up. I feel like Macon’s too obvious but maybe. Or Ritter?

I mean if Kelly is I'd like to know how 2016 was resolved because she's still alive and the sheriff in 2026!

maybe she shot him!

And that’s when it’s revealed

Bit of a long game! (Though I do like the idea that the aliens destroyed the entire town except for the football field.)

Well holy shit, they are fully cooking with this.

Sure are!