Superman & Lois review, Episode 215: “Waiting for Superman”

Superman & Lois has finally reached the end of the second season, and if you ask me, it felt like it went on for a bit too long. Personally, I did not enjoy what the season had to offer and it was made even worse by the CW’s cancellation of most of its Arrowverse shows.

A series like Superman & Lois loses its appeal when they drop little nuggets of multiverse wisdom when there are no longer any other Arroverse shows going on. Sure, we’ve got The Flash and Stargirl, but let’s be honest, the former is inching closer to its end with every season.

During the season 2 finale tonight, Sam Lane (Dylan Walsh) referred to the Superman of their Earth as being the only superhero, revealing that their Earth was different from that of the other superheroes we’ve met over the years. A reveal like that may have been exciting if there was any prospect of crossovers, but what are we supposed to do with something like that now?

And while I’m on that soapbox, can I just say that the John Diggle (David Ramsey) cameos are doing nothing for me? I think I’ve had a bitter taste in my mouth since realizing that we are never going to see Diggle as the Green Lantern, as we were so foolishly led to believe during the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” event. The whole multiverse is just moot now

On that note, let’s recap the major moments from the Superman & Lois season 2 finale. Major SPOILERS ahead!

Superman & Lois deals with Ally Allston once and for all

First and foremost, because the finale revolved around two worlds merging together, the visual effects department decided to saturate the scenes with a strange orange color to reflect the “other” world. It made it incredibly difficult to look at the screen — I finished the episode with a mild headache.

The name of the game for the Season 2 finale was trying to prevent Ally Allston (Rya Kihlstedt) from merging the two worlds. Of course, in the end, team Superman & Lois was successful but it took a lot of work to get there.

As the two worlds continued to merge together, residents of both worlds kept blipping back and forth. It was reminiscent of Marvel’s Infinity War when people kept disappearing. At some point the entire Kent family blipped to the other world, and then blipped back, but this time without Lois (Bitsie Tulloch). She found herself stuck in the other world where she eventually ran into Kyle (Erik Valdez), who was also taken away from their Earth.

Throughout the episode, we see the various families try to do what they can to face the whole Ally Allston of it all. Unfortunately, there is not much anyone can do when Superman is out of commission. However, that is when John Henry Irons (Wolé Parks) and Natalie (Tayler Buck) come in. The true heroes of the finale gave up their suits’ power to send a blast towards Ally so that the merge would stop.

And that gave Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) the opportunity to come in and do his Man of Steel thing…

Superman saves the day (thanks to John and Natalie)

The Irons’ are ultimately responsible for Superman being able to save the day, but before that happened there were other attempts, most of which were epic fails. At some point, Jordan (Alex Garfin) went straight into the void and saved Tal-Rho (Adam Rayner) after a failed attempt to stop Ally. Tal-Rho got a redeeming arc after all the brotherly drama so I was happy to see that, at least.

Ultimately, it fell to Superman to end the crisis, so he had Tal-Rho throw him into the sun so he could supercharge his missing powers. It worked, and he got an intense surge of power which allowed him to stop the merge once and for all and split the halves that were coming together.

The visual effects of it all were not the greatest, but it is what it is.

Superman & Lois Season 2 finale ending explained

After Superman saved the day, there was a series of events that took place rather quickly. Lois told Chrissy (Sofia Hasmik) that Clark is Superman, Jordan and Sarah (Inde Navarrette) officially got back together, Tal-Rho went to the other world where he was hoping to find his Bizarro-Earth wife, and Clark created a new Fortress of Solitude in the middle of the ocean for the family.

The most “interesting” thing to happen was when Diggle comes to visit John Henry Irons at the end of the episode. Irons had recruited Diggle to find out more about someone named Bruno Mannheim and a group called Intergang who killed the John Henry of this Earth.

It looks like we’ll find out more about that in season 3, but here’s some quick background. Bruno Mannheim is a supervillain in the DC Comics and the leader of a crime syndicate called Intergang who got their weapons from Darkseid and the planet Apokolips. There is much to learn about them and Bruno so I look forward to seeing how Superman & Lois explores this in season 3.

And that’s a wrap on Superman & Lois season 2, folks! We will see you again for next season where I can only hope that things have improved. This series started off so strong, but this season sure didn’t end that way.

Grade: C

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