Superman & Lois season one

Superman & Lois season one concluded here tonight. Like a lot of the later Arrowverse shows it’s highly serialised, with more episodes ending on cliffhangers than not. (Including the finale, after a nice and pretty long celebratory ending sequence. A cliffhanger that looks a lot like the one for Supergirl season one.)

Its recurring solution to challenging Superman is giving people Kryptonian powers. More disasters to avert would have been nice, along with more chances for Clark to be amiable, which he does really well. Lois gets the investigative challenges and parental conflicts, and they share parenting ones. Smallville as a recession-hit dead end town rather than the Norman Rockwell idyll gets some good early showing but later gets a bit lost in the shuffle. But on the whole the mix of supers and soap works, helped by Jonathan and Jordan and their peers being interesting and sometimes fun characters as well. Jordan’s mental health issues, mostly touched on lightly, added a lot.