Bad Optics

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and your family so here at episode 364 everyone as i said we're hitting the three quarters mark on lanterns as we're going to discuss bad optics this is the sixth episode of lanterns released on september 20th 2026 written by Justin Brick Gibson, who wrote the previous episode, Lights Out, and also Damon Lindelof, one of the showrunners, who, of course, co-wrote the pilot episode, and will be returning for episodes seven and eight as well.

So get used to that name.

And it was directed, once again, by Stephen Williams, who directed the third episode of the season, Outcast.

He kind of flashes it at him from the other end of the bars.

And Guy wakes him up.

tells john about the first time he met how which was also in prison hal told him to climb go climb a rope because he's a gym teacher and john tells guy that uh hal's dead he was shot in the head but guy says well i can't help you solve this murder because it's really bad optics and because of everything that happened in rushville john wants hal to be buried in his green lantern uniform and ring but guys like that's not like a thing like cops

you know it's not that yeah it's

All right, so last review of the day is going to be for Lanterns, Episode 6.

So Sage, he's the funny book boy.

Be reading them funny books, man.

And he loves Green Lantern, so he's been doing some weekly reviews of Green Lantern, of this Lantern series here on HBO.

You got Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre there.

He's playing Hal Jordan and Jon Stewart.

You just see his silhouette.

Yeah.

Wonderful.

Yes, but yeah, let's dive in to the reason that we're here besides friendship, which is Lanterns Season 1, Episode 6, Bad Optics.

hard open 2026 John Stewart is finally an architect he is now the the full-rounded John Stewart that we know from the comics he's he's been around he's lived a life he's tried to discover who he is when he's not being groomed to be a child soldier and uh

I'm a child soldier no being groomed as a child to be a soldier a

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This is episode six of Lanterns.

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