What kind of story did DC Studios describe the DC series Lanterns as?

DC Studios described the DC series Lanterns as an Earth-based detective story.

Peter Safran said the new version of Lanterns would be a terrestrial investigation rather than the space opera imagined for an earlier version of the Green Lantern television project. The series follows Hal Jordan and John Stewart as they investigate a murder in Nebraska, with the case leading to a wider mystery.

The grounded description does not mean the series abandons Green Lantern mythology. The characters still possess power rings, the main weapons of the Green Lantern Corps, and the story includes extraterrestrial and cosmic elements. Instead, the production places those ideas inside a human-scale crime narrative.

The creative team compared the show’s tone to True Detective and Slow Horses. Chris Mundy described the mystery as emotional and relational rather than simply a conventional whodunit. This approach allows Lanterns to work as a detective drama while introducing the Green Lantern characters to viewers who may not know the comics.