Arrowverse, we'll miss you. Born on October 10, 2012, the CW series of connected shows finally left us on December 2, 2024, just over 12 years later. Technically, it's the unofficial end. Things really ended with The Flash in May 2023. But despite the CW's insistence that Superman & Lois is not part of the…

Something often missing from comics are consequences. The stories often have world, universe, or multiverse-wide consequences, so the writers have to end with the heroes winning most of the time. Comic companies don't randomly kill off bankable characters, either. As a result, it can feel like nothing changes. Superman & Lois, especially this final season,…

Superman is a notoriously difficult character to write because it's so easy to come up with problems he solves with punches and speed, and so challenging to find interesting problems that resist those methods. And often, even those ideas are handled with the grace of a monthly 1990s comic book. Somehow, Superman & Lois is…

This episode is a real rager, by which I mean there are two full sequences dedicated to adult men throwing fits. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 4, Episode 06, "When the Lights Come On." "When the Lights Come On" Superman looks at the people of Earth and says, I want to be one of you, so…

Lois makes some big plays to try to shake Lex Luthor out of his single-minded focus on destroying her life. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 4, Episode 05, "Break the Cycle." "Break the Cycle" If last week's episode felt overly full and weirdly timed, this episode feels sparse by comparison, and almost intimate. Summing it…

The Soap Opera effect, when we're talking about TVs, is about using post-processing technology to make video seem ultra-smooth. In comic books, though, something else entirely. Comic books are ongoing serial products that want to evolve and move forward, but they star beloved, popular, and most importantly lucrative characters that their publishers can't afford to…

Superhero stories have to get dark to test their protagonists. Whether our heroes are invincible, smart, or just rich, we need to thrust them into darkness to see how they might behave in the most unimaginable of circumstances. This season was always going to be an intense one, and this episode is no exception--but it…

When last we saw him, Superman was fighting Doomsday, a creature created by Lex Luthor by torturing and twisting Bizarro Superman. Now, we get a whole season to explore what that means. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 4, Episode 01 and 02, "The End & The Beginning" and "A World Without." Season 4 Premiere With the…

Superman's half-brother tried to overwrite a bunch of humans with Kryptonian DNA. Ally Alston tried to merge two Earths from entirely different universes. What can Lex Luthor do that compares to that? He can kill Superman. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 3, Episode 13, "What Kills You Only Makes You Stronger." "What Kills You Only Makes…

Everyone is in trouble with everyone this week. Jordan is in trouble with his parents and Lana and Sara. Clark is in trouble with Jonathan. Kyle is in trouble with Clark. Lana is in trouble with Sara. Lois and Clark are in trouble with Lex Luthor. Everyone just chill out for a second, will you? Spoilers…

Before medical treatments and procedures are given to the general public, they're tested extensively and peer-reviewed by experts in similar disciplines. But it's probably okay if we use this cure we got from a dead Kryptonian from Backwards Earth on this sick woman who can destroy buildings with her voice, right? Spoilers follow for Superman &…

Despite wandering into melodrama from time to time, Superman & Lois is one of the best live-action depictions of the Man of Steel to date. This week's episode does a great job of tying the family and small-town drama in with the superhero stuff in meaningful ways. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 3, Episode 10, "Collision Course."…

Cancer is at the center of Superman & Lois Season 3, and we're seeing not just how it affects Lois, but how it affects Clark, and what it looks like to be on the other side of it as Bruno Mannheim's wife fights the same battle. This week, Lois struggles with how the battle will…

Sure, we all know about Romeo and Juliet, but what about Natalie and Matteo? As soon as we began to make connections about Matteo's parents, the two young lovers have been on a collision course with tragedy. Natalie has a tough road ahead. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 3, Episode 08, "Guess Who's Coming to…

Clark is having to accept a lot right now. His wife is sick and his sons are growing up quickly. He has to face reality, and that's tough when you spend so much of your life living a very different reality from those around you. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 3, Episode 07, "Forever and…

Clark is having to accept a lot right now. His wife is sick and his sons are growing up quickly. He has to face reality, and that's tough when you spend so much of your life living a very different reality from those around you. Spoilers follow for Superman & Lois Season 3, Episode 06, "Of Sound…

Lois Lane is a relentless reporter--imagine one of the people she's exposed describing her, and it would sound like someone talking about John Wick, but with a keyboard instead of a gun (or pencil). Right now, though, she's incredibly vulnerable in a way she's never been--you can't expose the criminal history of cancer, and Superman…

Most of the time, Superman is using the tiniest fraction of his strength. Part of the reason it's so much fun to imagine a turned Superman is that he would be truly terrifying in a way very few other characters are if he began acting selfishly. This episode gives him plenty of reasons to be…