Paramount's Near-Perfect Western Crime Thriller that Swept the Oscars Is Officially Free to Watch

It's streaming for free, and pairs perfectly with our favorite new show If you’ve never heard the term neo-Western, it refers to stories that explore the themes and imagery of American Westerns and examine them for modern times. Movies and TV shows in this genre often depict lawlessness and gunfighting, and explore themes of right and wrong, but typically with more ambiguity than classic Westerns did. The genre dates all the way back to the 1950s and 1960s, after the golden age of American Westerns died out. That’s when Hollywood began to generate some more complex stories like Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) and Hud (1963), which depicted present-day stories with Western themes as opposed to those set in the “Old West.” So it may come as a surprise to hear that the DC Universe's latest project falls within the genre. Across comics, television, and film, DC's various Green Lanterns are most often involved in space adventures or Justice League teamups, but HBO's Lanterns places Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and John Stewart (Aaron Pierre), a superpowered space cop and his trainee, respectively, in small-town Nebraska in what is essentially a neo-Western story. Last year, while Lanterns wa