Casting Light: A Lanterns Podcast
Lanterns is here! Can HBO make a high-quality prestige show that captures the appeal of the Green Lantern comics? We're excited to find out. Join Jason, Kirk, and Jim, three fans of smart, well-crafted TV, and comics too. Write to us at brightestday@podcastica.com.
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Lanterns S1E2 "Trust Fall"
Things are getting complicated this week, with details about who these aliens are and why they came to Rushville, Nebraska, and questions about what William Macon is up to, why Hal doesn’t want to report to the Guardians, how John can create a little green birdie sidekick, and a ton more. We do our ...
Lanterns S1E1 "Pilot"
Lanterns opens strong with an episode that manages to slip in a ton of expositional Green Lantern lore, an intriguing small town mystery, a bunch colorful characters all pushing against each other’s edges (with some fantastic actors playing them), all while asking some deeper questions about human n...
Intro to Lanterns
Yes, this show is about members of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic peacekeeping force whose members wear rings that give them powers (and we love that). But there’s a lot more about this series that has us intrigued. Like, why is it also apparently a gritty murder mystery set in rural Nebr...