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Why Lanterns Episode 3 Is The Best Sign Yet For The Future Of The DC Universe - TVLine (opens the original)
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These days, just about all we ever hear about superhero movies and TV shows is how they're screwed. Marvel can shush the fatigue discourse with a ludicrously successful "Spider-Man" film roughly once every decade, but the DCU doesn't have that option. Luckily, it does have Episode 3 of "Lanterns," titled "OutKast" — a shining example of superhero media without superhero media cliches. Directed by Stephen Williams — who previously collaborated with "Lanterns" co-creator Damon Lindelof on HBO's "W
Lanterns' John Stewart Is A Lesson In Textbook Compartmentalization — Allow Aaron Pierre To Explain - TVLine (opens the original)
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What defines a superhero? Is it their powers? Their costume? Or is it their mommy-and-daddy issues? HBO's "Lanterns" gestures at the death of Hal Jordan's (Kyle Chandler) father in the pilot episode, and Episode 3 zeroes in on the upbringing of John Stewart (played by Aaron Pierre as an adult, Jayce Eiland as a child, and Cairo Cash Lee as an older child). Like an inverted Thomas and Martha Wayne, John's parents are extra-present and obsessively devoted to raising a brooding, emotionally broken
The Vampire Lestat's Scariest Scenes Set The Stage For A Terrifying Season 4 - TVLine (opens the original)
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"The Vampire Lestat" is not scary, but that could change if AMC greenlights the show for another season. Granted, Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) is an immortal mass murderer with godlike powers; conceptually, he's terrifying. But in a more direct sense — via razor-sharp writing and Reid's swaying between campy rock star egomania and wailing vulnerability — he's quite charming, and unlikely to inspire the type of bone-chilling dread associated with, for one example, a xenomorph from the "Alien" f
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