Ronald Young Jr.

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945 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 24 Aug

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Pop Culture Happy Hour · Lanterns · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

You know, after the first episode, I liked it and I thought that I was going to get more of what I saw there, which was you did have me convinced with the true detective comparison.

Let's be honest, we're talking true detective season one, in which this is not a slight, a real slight to the other seasons, but I feel like when we use true detective as as a shorthand, we're really talking about season one in most cases.

That's a very good point.

But if you talk about season

One specifically, what makes that show so great is that there's this opposition of these two forces that breaks apart and then it has to be forced back together in order to overcome an obstacle, which is beautiful and it really works.

The reason why I think it's tougher to do in this show is because there's so many other elements that are introduced into the plot that yes, we're interesting, and yes, we're

Good threads, but ultimately to me were either poorly executed or did not come completely to bear.

Now, we've all only seen up through seven episodes.

I do not know how this is going to end.

Something could happen in the last episode that makes it all worthwhile and makes me change my opinion so far.

But through seven episodes, I'm not confident that they had a fully coherent and cohesive idea for this.

This season of television.

Yes, I think these ideas are deployed.

And I think to your point, Glenn, it's doing exactly what you said it's doing in terms of how does Jon Stewart show up as Green Lantern?

Well, there's going to have to be some historical context here that exists simply because he is a black man who is a superhero.

And ostensibly what we are thinking is to be a time and a place that is similar to ours, minus the existence of superhero.

Superheroes.

So I'm assuming that Martin Luther King Jr.

and civil rights and all that exists in this world.

So if it does, then yes, I imagine the same struggles as black folks exist here, minorities, any other marginalized group.

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