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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the TV Is Good podcast, where Kathryn VanArendonk and I look at notable television shows from the present and the past. In this week's episode, it's all comic books, all the time, but in unexpected ways. First up, Kathryn and I sort through the complicated — but also entertaining — text that is HBO's new superhero mystery drama Lanterns, which I wrote about last week:
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We gave a lot of thought to what comic book or comic book-adjacent show we should cover. Lanterns was co-created by Damon Lindelof, so Watchmen was a natural, but we've already done both Lost and The Leftovers early in the podcast's run. We talked about various Marvel and Arrow-verse shows, as well as Heroes, before realizing this was a great opportunity to talk about an absolute gem of a show, that barely anyone remembers, but almost anyone would enjoy watching: ABC Family's one-and-done The Middleman, which I recapped back in 2008 (the full show is available for digital purchase for 10 bucks, and is worth it):
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