(series review) [STREAMING] - Lanterns - Episode 2

The last episode was great, and the show delivered its serious tone, with few jokes but plenty of mature themes and content, extremely well. In that pilot, we get little bits of information about Hal, the Green Lanterns, the town, John and the story that is slowly unfolding. The pacing was great and, by the end, the mystery was even better. So, considering where we left things, it was going to be very interesting to see where this second episode takes us.
Well... it doesn't disappoint.


We kick off this episode with Hal waking John up and sending him on an errand to fetch his things. Whilst John is off doing that, Hal continues his own investigative work, only to run into some trouble of his own. Meanwhile, John's seemingly simple errand doesn't exactly go to plan either, and he finds himself dealing with his own issues before he can make it back to Hal.
And this is where Lanterns continues to impress.

The second episode gives us more information about the Green Lanterns, the characters surrounding Hal and John, and the mystery at the centre of the story, but it doesn't feel like the show is dumping information on us just for the sake of it. Instead, we're getting small pieces of the puzzle while the investigation continues.

What I particularly like is that the show isn't rushing to give us answers. There is a real sense that something much bigger is happening underneath everything we are seeing, and the slower, investigative approach works incredibly well.

Two episodes in and Lanterns is doing exactly what it needs to do. The mystery is getting deeper, the characters are becoming more interesting, and I'm genuinely invested in finding out where this is all going.

So far, James Gunn's DCU is looking pretty damn good