Superman & Lois takes the famous supehero couple into dramatic territory trying to raise their twin sons! The series is being developed by Greg Berlanti and Todd Helbing, he is the executive producer and writer for The Flash. The magic of the show is the cinematography is by Gavin Struthers who worked on The Witcher and Downton Abbey. What is impressive is getting that country sunlight streaming into Smallville. Of course there was a show that featured the couple, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. They were also married in the Smallville episode, “Finale, Part 2” (2011). In the comic, they married in Superman: The Wedding Album (1996), which matched with a Lois & Clark episode.
The series features Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as the leads. He was known for the show Teen Wolf. Hoechlin entered the Arrowverse with the Supergirl episode, “The Adventures of Supergirl” (2016) and was recently in the Crisis on Infinite Earths episodes with Elizabeth Tulloch. Her Arrowverse debut was in The Flash, “Elseworlds, Part 1” (2018). Tulloch was also in the series Grimm. During the Crisis, they were in Argo City from “Elseworlds, Part 3” (2018) to protect Lois, and send their son, Jonathan, in a pod before Argo City’s destruction. Lois and Clark had a child in Convergence: Superman #2 (2015) named Jonathan Samuel Kent, he is aged up to a teenager and eventually becomes Superboy. Harbinger brings Superman and Lois to Earth-38. Lois recovered Jonathan. The merging of Earths changed the timeline resulting in the couple having another son.
The show opens with the landing of baby Kal-El to Smallville as Clark relates to his landing as a child, found by the Kents, and growing up in Smallville. In a walk in the town, Clark’s father, Jonathan (Fred Henderson) gets a heart attack, simliar to Superman: The Movie (1978). Clark moves to Metropolis and saves a kid from a car falling from a freeway. He has the black chest shield similar to the early comics shield and seen in the Max Fleischer cartoons. He is thanked by the kid and flies away. Clark starts at the Daily Planet and meets Lois Lane. He reveals his identity outside of a wheat field in Smallville. Clark proposes and kisses Lois taking her up to the clouds. They marry, and Clark explains that they had twins. There is Jonathan and also Jordan, no connection to the comics. The twin boys concept has already been explored in WandaVision. Clark smiles as young Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) throws a football snapping a tire rope. Jordan (Alex Garfin) is busy writing by himself. The teenage Jordan is comforted by his mother and Clark says he suffers from social anxiety disorder.
SUPERMAN - - “Pilot” - - TYLER HOECHLIN, ELIZABETH TULLOCH - - Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW -- © 2021 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Night, there is an accident at a factory and General Sam Lane (Dylan Walsh) activates a signal hoping for Superman. I recognize Walsh from the action movie Congo (1995). This is the best version of the character I've seen, other portrayals just have him as a harsh, strict military leader. He flies and then lands in a reactor. Superman sees a breach in the reactor and seals it with heatvision and then sucks up water in a nearby latke freezing it into an iceberg chunk to be carried to the reactor. An interesting super feat. Chips of the iceberg and streams of water pour down as a technician says the reactor has cooled. The effects are really good, Hoechlin can handle the Superman action, but this is a dramatic show. Superman lands and meets with the general. Superman flies back to his home in Smallville and Lois tells him that Jordan missed therapy. Jonathan is zoom chatting with a girl, Eliza (Coral Humphrey), and Clark walks in to hear he made varsity football. Jordan is busy playing video games, in this case, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (2008). He is playing Raiden vs. Superman. Clark brings up therapy and said he was in Wichita. Jordan is not really interested in starting freshman year of high school.
Clark finds that he missed a call from his mother! Martha Kent (Michele Scarabelli), Martha!, says she saw him on the news. Scarabelli was Susan Francisco, the mom, in the sci fi show, Alien Nation (1989). She reminds him of the importance of family. The next morning, Clark gives Jonathan some eggs for breakfast. He mocks his brother for his clothes. Jonathan of course has Superman’s confidence, but Jordan has his loneliness and being an alien. The boys leave for their ride. Lois worries about Jonathan and Clark says Tess at the Fortress has found that he doesn’t have powers. Clark says that he has to keep his fourteen year old sons in the dark to keep his identity and them safe. They enter the Daily Planet offices from an elevator still discussing family problems. Clark is fired by owner, Morgan Edge, and gets a call from his mother. He hears Dr. Frye and Clark leaves at super speed to the Smallville farm. Dr. Frye (Chy Liu) informs him that Martha suffered a stroke and Clark cries at her passing. A dramatic moment to start the show.
The sun sets at the funeral of Martha Kent and we get the flashback of his father’s funeral in the rain. Lois hugs Clark. Jonathan mentions Sarah Cushing to Jordan. Clark and Lois meets with Lana Lang Cushing (Emmanuelle Chriqui), her husband Kyle Cushing (Erik Valdenz), a firefighter, and teen daughter, Sarah (Inde Navarette). Chriqui was Sloan in Entourage. Navarette was in the Netflix drama, 13 Reasons Why. The boys mention the barn which is forbidden to them. At the kitchen, Lana mentions to Lois and Clark that she works at a bank. Kyle brings up Morgan Edge opening business at Smallville. He is brusque and mentions some kind of business with Lana. Sarah walks with the boys in the barn. She asks for Jordan’s phone and brings up a bonfire party. Jonathan spots the router and Jordan goes up the hayloft to it. Clark is worried talking to Lois, he heard flying to Smallville, that Martha wanted him to come home. Jordan is balancing himself trying to reach the router, he connects it, and falls. Some pipes start to roll and Jonathan throws himself to cover his brother!
SUPERMAN - - “Pilot” - - JORDAN ELSASS, ALEX GARFIN - - Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW -- © 2021 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Sarah runs for help and Clark runs to the barn. He sees the boys with heat vision and then pulls off a pipe from them. A doctor says they had concussions, but are fine. Jonathan says he missed practice. He is jealous of Sarah’s attention to his brother. Jordan seems like the Clark of Smallville, conflicted and dealing with his powers. Clark is on the porch and Lois tells him that Jonathan’s powers protected them. His super hearing picks up her father. General Lane shows security camera footage from the nuclear plant. There is a mysterious man and some Kryptonian writing, “You are not a hero, Kal-El.” Lois wants Clark to stay not leave as Superman. It unusual that days are spent without Superman, no dangers around the world, is there other heroes to help out? General Lane brings up his warning to his daughter that she married Superman. At the bank, Lana explains that Martha took out a second mortgage on the farm to help other families in Smallville. She calls her “Superwoman.” Lana offers them to buy the farm to save it.
The boys enter the barn to see what happened with the accident. Jordan finds that there is a door on the floor of the barn and uses a crowbar to open it. They use flashlights to search the cellar. They find a covered object, the Kryptonian capsule. I think it would be taken to the Fortress to protect it. Jordan reaches out to it and an orange crystal floats to his hand. No monitoring system, camera, alert to Clark? He drives Lois in a truck to the farm. Lois suspects that there is something wrong with the loans. Jordan is angry at his father with the crystal and Clark’s secrets. He reveals the truth. Jordan doesn’t believe his father is Superman. Clark takes off his glasses and lifts up the truck and then flies with it. Jordan is angry over the lies. Clark says he was worried about their powers. His sons walk away. He hears a problem with the nuclear plant and Lois sends him as Superman. The mysterious villain is there hidden by the nuclear facility. Superman takes on this armored villain who knows all about him. Jordan meets Sarah at the bonfire party at a quarry. He becomes bullied along with his brother from her boyfriend and others. These conflicts have consequences and some changes. The series is not reliant on a single superhero story or simple, super villain conflicts, it is centered around a family, which works great as a drama. Superman & Lois is a dramatic series with some superhero action!
Four Kryptonite Crystals out of Five!
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