Pick of the week
Lanterns
One of the more eagerly awaited superhero franchise expansions, this stylish, self-aware take on DC Comics’ Green Lantern doesn’t disappoint. It stars Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as Hal Jordan and John Stewart. These intergalactic peacekeepers wear rings that give them extraordinary powers. But that doesn’t mean that these space cops are always cleaner than clean: Hal is booze-addled and happy to use his ring to counterfeit dollar bills; John is his slick heir apparent. Cue succession-based squabbling which had better resolve itself soon as a murder in rural Nebraska signals the arrival of “the most dangerous beings to ever exist in the galaxy”. Funny, inventive and gripping.
HBO Max, from Monday 17 August
