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Superhero Television Tries a Different Costume
· New York time
An Ars Technica review of HBO's Lanterns praises the gritty series for finding a distinctive approach to superhero conventions. The assessment emphasizes what creative freedom can do with familiar genre material. For viewers, the appeal is a different treatment of recognizable ingredients, rather than another promise to enlarge the universe until it needs a zoning board. The genre has accumulated enough conventions to furnish a warehouse. A fresh approach need not burn the warehouse down. Sometimes it just needs to stop arranging every room around the same enormous cape rack.
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