Superman & Lois' Biggest Smallville Difference Is Secretly Perfect
Superman & Lois has a key difference from Smallville that works to the show's advantage. With season 1 wrapped up and season 2 in full swing, Superman & Lois continues to follow Tyler Hoechlin's Man of Steel as he balances his life as a superhero, husband, and father. Season 2 also sees Clark Kent facing a new foe in his doppelganger Bizarro—also played by Hoechlin.
Superman & Lois is the second Superman-centric CW series, following the network's previous big DC series Smallville. Running from 2001 to 2011, Smallville focused on Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as a young man, years before his eventual transformation into Superman. Smallville began during Clark's teenage years, following him and his friends into young adulthood, and it's that characteristic that Superman & Lois flips.
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Clark Kent has been Superman for twenty years already during the events of Superman & Lois. While Smallville was all about Clark's gradual journey to becoming the iconic Man of Steel, Superman & Lois takes the opposite approach—but it also does a lot more than simply flip the setup. While both shows are generally age-neutral in their audiences, they also tilt slightly towards different demographics in a way that echoes one another. Beginning with Clark in high school, Smallville started out with a slight but noticeable lean towards adolescents. As Clark's story continued, Smallville's storytelling followed suit, with the makers of the show being clearly aware that the series had an aging audience in its teenage viewers. Twenty years after the debut of Smallville, Superman & Lois picked this ball up and ran with it.
A big focus of Superman & Lois is on Clark and Lois
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