Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre Are Great ‘Lanterns’, but HBO’s DC Drama Is Overshadowed by Its Influences: TV Review

Of all the superheroes to give the gritty realism treatment, the Green Lantern is an odd choice. Tasked with enforcing intergalactic order with a magic ring bestowed by a group of blue aliens (before the Na’avi, there were the Guardians), the character occupies the opposite end of the tonal spectrum from Bruce Wayne stalking the…