Lanterns Episodes 5 to 8 reviews

Episode Five- Lights Out This episode is the best yet at balancing the series’ more thoughtful scenes with it’s action ones. As the town comes under threat from the aliens searching for the Manhunter and Hal leaves John for dead, emotions are running high. The 2007 opening flashback depicts Kerry’s arrival in town, pursued by killers and shows how Zoe helped her- for a price. It’s a fitting beginning to an episode where several characters have to make an important choice as to what to do. If the sometimes tongue tied dialogue makes it harder to work out what people’s motivations are then this episode suggests everyone is looking after themselves.Spoilers after the break... Though there are three more episodes to go, this feels like a finale. Rushville is half destroyed by the Manhunter’s red rays which is imagery right out of classic pulp sci fi comic art. I was hoping they might even have a silver flying saucer. Yet this threat is not met by the sort of brave superhero response you’d…