Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Superman and Lois, “Lies That Bind”, Review!

After the merging of the Allys, facing the Bizarro Jonathan/Superboy, we have the revelation of Clark to Lana as Superman!  He descends and Lana is of course surprised.  He puts on his glasses and we see the young Clark and Lana in school.  She remembers the car accident looking at a tree, teen Lana (Emma Newton) had whispered that she loves teen Clark (Josh Zaharia), and the car spun out of control.  Clark admits that he was angry and left Smallville after saving her and Pete.  He had returned to Smallville to see Lana kiss Kyle.  Lana leaves to her truck.  At the farmhouse, Jordan is amazed that his father revealed his identity.  Lois is angry that Jordan is worried about Sarah and has to go to school with his brother.  Clark says he has to check on what is Ally is doing after dropping off his sons.  At the school, he has Natalie try to stop Sarah, but she walks past them.  The football players are angry that Jonathan had the season cancelled, but Natalie and Jordan interrupt and breaks this up. 

Lana is at the diner, thinking over about Clark and Superman since his Smallville return.  She is distracted when Kyle takes her out of her thinking.  He wonders if Sarah likes the car.  Lana says that she was too busy.  She wants Kyle to pick up their children at school.  Bizarro Superboy is in DoD confinement and he is confronted by Superman with choices.  He wants his help to save both worlds and says he has the pendant.  Superboy says that Ally will return to merge this world.  At the Department of Defense, John Henry says that the pendant is almost indestructible with Sam Lane there.  Sam has John Henry pull up images of the portal, but Superman is worried about destroying it.  He needs to save the Bizarro World, the Superboy prisoner has to return, but the others think he expects too much.  Lana walks into the Kent house saying to Lois that she had lied to Kyle.  She is angry at Lois for making friends with her.  Lana has kept the secret and thinks their relationship is a lie.  Also, that now she is a liar keeping the secret from Kyle. 


SUPERMAN AND LOIS -  - “Lies That Bind” - - ELIZABETH TULLOCH, TYLER HOECHLIN, EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI - - Photo: Shane Harvey/The CW -- © 2022 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.


Natalie takes Jonathan and Jordan to keep a secret from their parents, her own suit!  She is going to give it to Jonathan to protect him from Bizarro Superboy, but she needs their help to get a power source.  In Tal-Rho’s cell, he brings up from his reading, about the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill.  Superman admits that his life was saved by his Bizarro World counterpart.  He wonders what Tal-Rho will give him in return who wants his brother back.  He will never get approval from the one person.  At the Kent house, Clark is there when Lois walks in angry about who Lana hates.  He has brought in Tal-Rho who holds some roses!  Clark tries to explain that he needs his brother's help to destroy the pendant.  He has his hands bound and explains that he was led on that path by trying to live up to his father.  A lie?  He promises not to hurt anyone Lois knows.  Sam Lane and John Henry are both angry.  


Lois breaks up their argument, she wants Clark’s plan to happen as their only hope, and then leaves because she needs to repair her relationship to Lana.  Natalie is at the cave with the X-K with Jonathan and Jordan.  She has found a vein of the X-K.  At a bench, Sarah is listening to her music when Kyle drives up to take her home.  He wonders if there is something going on with Lana.  They have to drive to pick up from ballet.  They have gotten some crystals, but Jordan uses his heat vision to splice off a chunk of the X-K.  Then, the vein starts glow and the cave about to collapse!  The cave-in has Jordan taking the others away at super speed, but they don’t have the X-K.  Tal-Rho discovers that their mother had the idea to destroy the pendant together.  Then, he shows his cuffs.  Sarah is working on her song as Kyle enters and sees her song list.  


SUPERMAN AND LOIS -  - “Lies That Bind” - - TAYLER BUCK, ALEX GARDIN, JORDAN ELSASS - - Photo: Shane Harvey/The CW -- © 2022 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.


He suspects that she was on her long walk with another guy.  Sarah wants him to deal with it since she has her break up.  Kyle makes a call to Tanya.  At the mayor’s office, Lois stops by, and apologizes and admits that she was selfish.  She wants to fully disclose everything and also about Jordan.  Tal-Rho and Superman fly across the skies to a lava pit.  At the DoD base is Sam Lane and John Henry.  The duo start using their heat vision when Ally descends.  She has her eyes ablaze with Tal-Rho and Superman standing against her.  Tal-Rho flies towards her, but he is stopped by her and Ally drains his power!  He collapses and Superman flies after Ally.  John Henry at the command center gets off his coat to rush to help.  In the clouds, Superman is blasted by Ally, and John Henry has locked onto her.  His kinetic hammer flies, strikes Ally, and then the pendant spins before Superman catches it and flies it down to Tal-Rho.  


He has the pendant and they both use their heat vision on it.   Tal-Rho and Superman scream as the pendant is destroyed!  Ally collects the remains of the pendant and flies away.  Superman looks around the lava pit to find his brother, but he is gone.  Night, Clark explains to everyone that Ally drained his power.  Lois reminds the others that Tal-Rho has saved their lives.  Sam Lane wonders how they can defeat Ally.  Lana returns home to see that Sarah has cooked dinner who wonders if she is dating someone.  She is about to reveal the secret to her daughter.  Sophie interrupts them.  Lana brings up an internship at her mayoral office.  Clark and Lois are there to have a private talk.  Natalie is laughing with Jordan and Jonathan.  John Henry stops by and tells them about the destruction of the pendant.  He invites the boys over for dinner and Jonathan gets the text from Sarah.  She checks her cell phone and then tells her mother that she will be outside.  Lana has kept the secret from her and tells the Kents she needs some time.  The Superman and Lois episode deals with Lana dealing with the secret and Superman’s team up with Tal-Rho to destroy the pendant and Ally!  


Four Crystals out of Five! 


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