First 5 minutes of 'Lanterns' | Gunn's DCU: Updated with ratings

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“Lanterns” haters are going to be green with envy. The series premiere of the DC Studios show has racked up 9.3 million views in its first three days of availability across HBO and HBO Max.

That represents the biggest premiere for a DC Studios show on HBO Max to date and one of the top five premieres on the platform overall. Per HBO, the show pulled in 6.6 million viewers in the U.S. alone in the three day timeframe.

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See the full Lanterns release schedule below:

Sunday, August 16: Episode 1

Sunday, August 23: Episode 2

Sunday, August 30: Episode 3

Sunday, Sept. 6: Episode 4

Sunday, Sept 13: Episode 5

Sunday, Sept. 20: Episode 6

Sunday, Sept. 27: Episode 7

Sunday, Oct. 4: Episode 8 (FINALE)

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HBO’s next big bet in the DC Universe is more like a buddy-cop drama than the usual comic-book adaptation. Fans are in for a few surprises.

For many months, people eager for information about the new HBO series “Lanterns” had a single production still they could inspect. Many obsessed over the green ring peeking out from the actor Kyle Chandler’s middle finger. What hints might it hold?

“Somebody did a 20-minute YouTube video zooming in on this ring,” Jeffrey Johnson, the show’s property master, recalled last year on a Warner Bros. soundstage in Burbank, Calif. He slid the ring into the show’s meticulously crafted lantern. “The level of scrutiny,” he added, “is fascinating.”

Johnson knew the ring would be a “big thing.” And the people involved with this ambitious Green Lantern drama are hoping it will be, too. It is the next major undertaking from DC Studios, coming on the heels of James Gunn’s “Superman” movie, which won wide acclaim last summer, and Craig Gillespie’s “Supergirl,” which flopped this summer. Now the pressure is on the creators of “Lanterns,” which premieres on Sunday, to turn things back around.

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As the writers put it: Sure, it’s a series about intergalactic superheroes. But they wanted “Lanterns” to be firmly grounded on Earth — more “tactile” and “‘True Detective,’” Mundy said, than the usual comic-book adaptation, more “sweaty and grimy” than “glowing and green screen.”

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