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Shows that feel likeLanterns (2026–)

Two intergalactic cops, new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, are drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.

If you loved Lanterns, the closest series we have are Watchmen (2019), Locke & Key (2020) and Wayward Pines (2015). All three share Lanterns' contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is LINK CLICK (2021).

★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗1 season · HBOcreated by Damon Lindelofcontemplativetwistycerebraldreamlike
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If Lanterns hit the spot, these will too

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Watchmen
2019 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8.2drama · crime · sci-fi & fantasyMax

Lindelof deconstructing hero mythology

The difference: Alt-history masterwork

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.

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Locke & Key
2020–2022 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.3sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryNetflix

Inherited power with rules to learn the hard way

The difference: Family fantasy keys

After their dad's murder, three siblings move with their mom to his ancestral estate, where they discover magical keys that unlock powers — and secrets.

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Wayward Pines
2015–2016 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

Small-town surfaces over cosmic secrets

The difference: Twist-forward pulp

Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.

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Devs
2020 · 1 season · Hulu
★ 7.6sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryHulu

Both land stillness and twists at once

Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.

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Sleepy Hollow
2013–2017 · 4 seasons · FOX
★ 7.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

Two mismatched investigators working a case with a cosmic shadow behind it

The difference: Folklore and prophecy, faster and much lighter

Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

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Ragnarok
2020–2023 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.3sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryNetflix

Old powers stirring beneath ordinary lives

The difference: Norse teen myth

A small Norwegian town experiencing warm winters and violent downpours seems to be headed for another Ragnarök -- unless someone intervenes in time.

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Jupiter's Legacy
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaNetflix

Superhero legacy examined as an inheritance nobody wanted

The difference: Prestige and stiff, with none of the noir

As the world's first generation of superheroes (who received their powers in the 1930s) become the revered elder guard in the present, their superpowered children struggle to live up to the legendary feats of their parents.

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Agatha All Along
2024 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · mysteryDisney+

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Trades the stillness of Lanterns for an angle of its own

Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.

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The OA
2016–2019 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · dramaNetflix

Genre TV reaching for the metaphysical

The difference: Polarizing art object

Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.

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Carrie
2026 · 1 season · Prime Video
★ 7.8mystery · drama · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.

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Carnivàle
2003–2005 · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8.4sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · dramaMax

Twisty mystery in both cases

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2000s show

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.

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LINK CLICK
2021– · 5 seasons · bilibili
★ 8.5animation · sci-fi & fantasy · mystery

Common ground: superpowers

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Lanterns does

Using superpowers to enter their clientele’s photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at “Time Photo Studio,” a small photography shop set in the backdrop of a modern metropolis. Each job can be full of danger, but nothing is more important than fulfilling every order, no matter the scale…or peril involved!

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