Superman & Lois

Superman & Lois started this evening on BBC One. (A. V. Club pilot review) It’s a largely separate aside to the Arrowverse (as far as I can tell) which has been on Sky and latterly free channels since it started. And a BBC One Saturday evening airing for a US TV series is unusual anyway these days.

The title gives less equal billing than Lois & Clark did, but so far at least Lois (Bitsie Tulloch) gets about as much to do as Clark (Tyler Hoechilin) apart from when he goes off to save the world, fairly often.

Set largely in Smallville due to two unrelated reasons that happen within a minute of each other when one would have done, there’s a lot of golden hour photography like the series set there started with. (But we get Superman suited up in the first couple of minutes.)

The mysterious masked villain is a very Arrowverse move.

And it’s a sequel of sorts to where the usually are, as Lois and Clark are married and have two teenage sons. Nudging them almost twenty years up from their regular happily ever after opens up some different possibilities. (Not sure if either of these sons is the new Superman from the comics.)