Superman & Lois Season 4 Review 🔴 P B P ✔
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And that hero dies very early in the season. It isn't a spoiler to say this; season 3 ended with Lex Luthor (Michael Cudlitz) unleashing Doomsday, a character whose only function in the comics and movies is to kill Superman. And besides, death's door seldom remains closed for superheroes. The initial episodes of season 4 wrestle with how to bring back Superman, their dramatic tension stemming not from whether he’ll return – that's practically a given – but rather, what sacrifices must be made in order to resurrect him. There aren’t a lot of surprises in what the other characters are willing to give up, but the "how" and "why" behind each turn packs an emotional punch – made all the more charming by the show leaning into its limited resources. (The climactic fight scenes, for example, feel akin to Power Rangers and other Tokusatsu.)
Adding flavor to this story is the decision to treat Superman's "disguise" – i.e. the removal or addition of his glasses – as something magical without bothering to explain it. Not seeing the difference between Clark and Superman becomes something rooted in belief rather than logic. It's a beautiful approach to something so simple and ludicrous, and it paves the path for a wonderfully meaningful moment where Clark agonizes over whether to keep wearing his spectacles.
Superman & Lois’ spotlight was never as evenly split as its title implies, though Lois is at least allowed to wrestle with some of the mistakes that led Luthor to her family's doorstep in season 4. With the focus on Superman for this last hurrah, we’re able to really see his humanity as he’s slowly stripped of his powers in astonishing (and meaningful) ways. The final scenes are among the most moving any superhero adaptation or modern TV series has to offer (we’re talking a This Is Us-like tearjerker here), because of how astoundingly the purity and decency at the heart of Superman have been captured. "It Went By So Fast" is the title of the series finale, but it's also a central theme that Superman & Lois always kept in mind: the idea that life flashes by, even for the Man of Tomorrow, forcing him, and all of us, to make the best of it.
There’s no turning back from some of these choices, whose impacts are deppened by the deft and timely use of flashbacks to fill in the margins of every subplot. As the season proceeds, it feels like every nook and cranny of the characters' pasts has been examined, including those concerning "Superman's Pal" at the Daily Planet, Jimmy Olsen (played with wide-eyed enthusiasm by The Alienist's Douglas Smith). Smith makes for a brief but pitch-perfect addition to the cast during a story arc about Superman pushing people away to preserve his double life. That such a major figure in the Superman mythos can only stop by for a short while is heartbreaking; this is a version of Clark who can't truly be pals with Olsen, or with anyone for that matter, because his secrets have primarily been about protecting his family.