The seasonLanterns Season 1DIMMEDLanterns Season 1 has excellent performances and strong character writing, but its slow-burn mystery resolves through rushed explanations.Read the season reviewEpisode by episode
- GLOWINGHBO's Green Lantern series opens on a murder in small-town Nebraska, two Lanterns who can't stand each other, and almost no ring at all.
- GLOWINGA half-step up on the premiere: sharper craft, a genuinely good final ten minutes, and a highway chase that breaks the show's own rules.
- GLOWINGThe best-made hour of the season and the least urgent. Worth watching for the performances, but the Rushville mystery does not move at all.
- GLOWINGThe Manhunter is finally identified, and Sinestro and the Guardians spend the hour pressing the same fault line between Hal and John.
- GLOWINGLanterns delivers its biggest hour yet, clearing four episodes of setup while exposing how little weight some of its payoffs carry.
- DIMMEDLanterns jumps ten years and spends an hour catching everyone up. Fine for a time skip, wrong for a show with two episodes left.
- GLOWINGLanterns finally sends John and Hal off-world, but one powerful family revelation cannot disguise how much its penultimate episode stretches.
- SHORT-CIRCUITLanterns makes John Stewart a Green Lantern and solves Hal Jordan's murder, but its quiet finale withholds the Corps-scale payoff.
