--- title: "Lanterns Revived Green Lantern Interest After the 2011 Movie: Shows to Watch Next" description: "If Lanterns has you hunting for something similar, these shows from Watchmen to Andor to Fringe cover a lot of ground." url: https://gaming.skoop.news/5-sci-fi-series-to-watch-if-you-love-hbo-s-lanterns-5213e3/ published: 2026-11-08T07:30:49.187419-05:00 modified: 2026-11-08T07:30:49.187419-05:00 section: "Gaming & Streamers" publisher: "skoop.news" language: en keywords: ["Season", "Damon Lindelof", "Chris Mundy", "DC Comics", "Green Lantern", "Tom King", "Great Purge of HBO Max", "Heroes", "Watchmen", "Westworld"] hashtags: ["#DamonLindelof", "#ChrisMundy", "#DCComics", "#gaming", "#gamingclips"] image: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Green_Lantern_%28Six_Flags_Great_Adventure%29.jpg/1280px-Green_Lantern_%28Six_Flags_Great_Adventure%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail --- # Lanterns Revived Green Lantern Interest After the 2011 Movie: Shows to Watch Next > If Lanterns has you hunting for something similar, these shows from Watchmen to Andor to Fringe cover a lot of ground. Published 2026-11-08 · Gaming & Streamers, [skoop.news](https://skoop.news/) ## In brief - Lanterns revitalized interest in the Green Lantern franchise following the 2011 Green Lantern movie, which the source calls less-than-stellar [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). - Watchmen is an HBO drama based on DC Comics characters and created by Lost showrunner Damon Lindelof [[2]](https://collider.com/shows-like-lanterns-hbo/). - Andor takes place before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he gets swept up in the growing Rebellion [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). ## What Lanterns pulled off Lanterns revitalized interest in the Green Lantern franchise following the 2011 Green Lantern movie, which the source calls less-than-stellar [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Its creators are Damon Lindelof, Chris Mundy, and Tom King [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). ## DC and HBO neighbors Watchmen is an HBO drama based on DC Comics characters and created by Lost showrunner Damon Lindelof [[2]](https://collider.com/shows-like-lanterns-hbo/). It is set in a world changed by the actions of Ozymandias, played by Jeremy Irons [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Police officers in Watchmen are required to wear costumes after an attack by the Seventh Kalvary, a white supremacist group [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). One of them, Angela Abar (Regina King), known in costume as Sister Night, uncovers a mystery tied to her family and one of the key characters [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Legion follows the Marvel character David Haller, a reality-warping mutant [[3]](https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/list/4-cult-classic-sci-fi-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-lanterns/). Krypton spans two seasons and follows Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe), who is a romantic rival of Dev-Em for the hand of Lyta-Zod (Georgina Campbell) [[2]](https://collider.com/shows-like-lanterns-hbo/). Aaron Pierre first appeared on a DC Comics-related program as Dev-Em on the Syfy series Krypton [[2]](https://collider.com/shows-like-lanterns-hbo/). ## Andor and the Rebellion Andor takes place before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he gets swept up in the growing Rebellion [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Cassian loses his mother and the love of his life, Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona), and is imprisoned for months in an Imperial prison [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). He also witnesses a genocide on the planet Ghorman as the Empire strips it for material for the Death Star [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). This approach comes from showrunner Tony Gilroy [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). ## Heroes and Fringe Heroes debuted in 2006 and took the world by storm [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). It ran for four seasons, and most fans consider Season 1 its peak [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). The 2007 writers' strike cut Season 2 short, and demand for fan-favorite characters derailed creator Tim Kring's plan to make Heroes an anthology show [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Fringe follows the Fringe Division, a secretive arm of the FBI that investigates cases related to a parallel universe [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). The division consists of Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Walter Bishop (John Noble), and Walter's son Peter (Joshua Jackson) [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Its Season 1 finale is titled There's More Than One of Everything [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Fringe creators J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman later rebooted Star Trek for the big screen, reuniting them with Leonard Nimoy [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). ## Westworld and its catch Westworld is inspired by the Michael Crichton movie and is set in the far future, where the Delos Corporation runs a Western-themed amusement park of lifelike androids [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Its fans left in droves after Season 3, and Season 4 received little attention [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Westworld was axed in the 2022 Great Purge of HBO Max's library, so fans must find episodes digitally or buy DVDs [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). ## What this means for you If you want more DC on HBO, Watchmen is the match, since it is based on DC Comics characters and created by Damon Lindelof, who also created Lanterns with Chris Mundy and Tom King [[2]](https://collider.com/shows-like-lanterns-hbo/) [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). If you want Westworld, you must find episodes digitally or buy DVDs [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). Heroes has a clear high point, because most fans consider Season 1 its peak [[1]](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/). ## Sources 1. [5 Sci-Fi Series To Watch If You Love HBO's 'Lanterns'](https://www.polygon.com/best-sci-fi-tv-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-hbos-lanterns/) — Polygon 2. [10 Must-Watch Shows for Fans of HBO's 'Lanterns'](https://collider.com/shows-like-lanterns-hbo/) — Collider 3. [4 Cult Classic Sci-Fi Shows to Watch If You Love Lanterns](https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/list/4-cult-classic-sci-fi-shows-to-watch-if-you-love-lanterns/) — Comicbook.com Image: Photo: Jim Capaldi from Springfield PA, United States of America / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Lantern_(Six_Flags_Great_Adventure).jpg) --- Written from the sources above and checked twice (rules and an independent model) before publishing. How we work: https://skoop.news/how-we-work/ · Corrections: https://skoop.news/corrections/