Warning! The next comprises spoilers for the Superman & Lois Season 3 episode “Nearer.” Learn at your personal threat!
Superman & Lois kicked off Season 3 with a stunning scene through which audiences witnessed Lois and Clark getting intimate at his brother Tal‘s non-public villa. It was a light shock for causes I could not instantly perceive, however after seeing co-showrunners Todd Helbing and Brent Fletcher clarify why it occurred, it made sense.
Lois and Clark are a married couple with two teenage sons, so it should not be jarring to see them have a intercourse scene. As Todd Helbing talked about to TVLine, nevertheless, intimacy was not one thing Superman & Lois had centered on in its first two seasons. Helbing expressed it was a “objective’ to vary that in Season 3 and defined why:
It was a objective to get them extra intimate and to indicate them extra as a pair. The boys are additionally getting older, so we’re getting again to Clark and Lois as simply two people who find themselves in love and married.
Lois and Clark’s intimate scene paved the way in which for an additional large shock of the episode: a physician telling Lois she may be pregnant. In true tv style, nevertheless, Lois obtained phrase she was not pregnant simply when she and Clark determined they honestly wished one other youngster. Lois additionally obtained some regarding information that the signs she confirmed may be an indication of one thing severe, however Superman & Lois left us hanging on the place that is headed.
Brent Fletcher added some behind-the-scenes context to Lois and Clark within the Season 3 premiere. Fletcher spoke about Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, and the necessity to benefit from their on-screen chemistry as a pair:
It is a present that has pleasure and hope, and we’re lucky to have Tyler [Hoechlin] and Bitsie [Tulloch], who’ve such actual on-screen chemistry. It’s an engine for a present, and we expect we’ve received the most effective — if not the most effective — married {couples} on tv.
I fully agree with that assertion. Lois and Clark, for sure, are my favourite couple from the Arrowverse, with all due respect to Barry and Iris from The Flash. It was cool to see them working extra like an precise married couple and a number of the hijinks of making an attempt to navigate a possible unplanned being pregnant.
Talking of which, I used to be additionally actually glad to see that when John Henry Irons noticed Clark getting a being pregnant check on the pharmacy, he wasn’t bizarre about it. The John in Seasons 1 and a pair of would’ve had some difficult emotions associated to the truth that Lois was his spouse again on his Earth, however that angle is seemingly absent in Season 3. Maybe he’ll lastly transfer on to Lana Lang, as we have been teased with beforehand.
This episode additionally featured an surprising romantic encounter between Kyle and Chrissy. As Chrissy talked about, them being collectively may be messy, contemplating that Lana and Kyle solely simply received divorced. Smallville can also be, because the identify implies, a small city. It’s going to solely be a matter of time earlier than people discover out ought to they proceed.
Total, this episode felt like a departure from typical Superman & Lois, although not a wholly unwelcome one. Plus, we have now a complete season to get extra display screen time for Bruno Mannheim and Lex Luthor. This was some much-needed character growth that ought to assist propel the non-public tales all through the season.
Superman & Lois is again on The CW on Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET. It is one in every of many reveals returning on the 2023 TV schedule, so you’ll want to give it a glance to see what different reveals are coming again.
