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Showrunner Todd Helbing spoke with TVLine and confirmed that: Also, in a bit of casting news:

Strong end to a very strong first season. Resolved all of the season's plot lines while laying some very intriguing breadcrumbs for next season.

Returns tonight on The CW at 9/8c, following the second season premiere of "Stargirl".

I love the respect this show has for its characters, and the care with which they navigate their interpersonal conflicts. They genuinely talk with each other instead of at each other.

Yes, I appreciated that they avoided evil Superman's reign of terror, and a crucial decider in that was John Henry Irons listening to Lois and Jonathan. I also liked how the fallout of the Morgan Edge scandal brought the Cushings back closer together. This show does those small, rural domestic...

Yes, definitely a recreation of the costume from the Max Fleischer cartoons. When I was a kid, the library at my elementary school had a massive bound volume with reprints of Superman comics chronologically starting with Action Comics #1. With the exception of the "S" shield, the costume had...

The first half of tonight's episode was a fun origin story for this version of Superman, fleshing out the montage that opened the series premiere. I really love this version of Martha Kent. We also got to see key milestones of Kal-El's journey paralleled in Tal-Rho's, only with a darker spin...

Another strong episode tonight. I still don't love the idea of the season's Big Bad being Kal-El's brother, but the fact that he's only a half-brother helps a bit. And given that Kal-El's parents were the only ones who anticipated Krypton's destruction, it makes sense that the only people who...

I like that, even though it's a family drama, every now and again we get a scene that's pure Superman, like when he foiled the bank heist in Mexico. I figured it was something along those lines:

Another strong episode tonight. Lois having miscarried with a daughter who was to be named Natalie, and then seeing snapshots of the life of the daughter Natalie on another Earth understandably brought up a lot of emotions. It also provided an opportunity to contrast how Lois and Clark process...

I don't think they're going to delve into it as heavy as "The Flash" did, because this is a much more grounded show. Other than Irons (and maybe his daughter) I don't think we're going to be seeing anybody else from another Earth.

I'm wondering if the Superman of the Stranger's Earth got overwritten like the humans granted Kryptonian powers have been. It would explain the sudden personality change. And his real identity also had impact; John Henry Irons was Steel, one of the four successors to Superman in the "Reign of...

Good to have this one back. Tonight's return episode moved all of the storylines forward in significant ways: Jordan is faced with the consequences of using his powers in rash and impulsive ways. One of the interesting things about the two brothers is that you see bits of their father in both...

The first five episodes are now available to stream on HBO Max.

I continue to really love the show's sense of place when it comes to Smallville, this dying rural small town that still has glimmers of what made it so special for Clark growing up. Nothing feels like it's happening in isolation; everything touches a bit on everything else. I also really like...

Tonight's episode was the first one where I really saw the constraints of The CW-sized budget on the show's scope; Glen Morgan Plaza in Metropolis sure looked a lot like Infantino Street in Central City where Savitar held Iris West hostage, and Star City Plaza in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths"...

The redhead who used her heat vision to kill the super-strong thug was the one who told Lois Edge would destroy her in the Daily Planet boardroom, so there's definitely a connection of some sort. In the comics,

One thing I'm really enjoying about this show is that it's not just about conflict, it's also about how the characters work through conflict. We saw it with Lana reconnecting with her daughter Sarah, both of them willing to be vulnerable and brutally honest to bridge the gap between them. We saw...

Tonight's episode had the same writer and director as the pilot, so it's not a surprise that it felt at the same level. Also, there were still a large number of pieces shifting around on the board, with the boys starting at Smallville High and Lois quitting her job at the Daily Planet. Next week...

And I wouldn't worry about not having seen "Supergirl", because Superman's backstory seems to have been rewritten more than most as a result of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event. While this show is technically part of the Arrowverse, it sure feels like the writers are trying really...

Even though the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event rewrote the Arrowverse Superman's backstory significantly, Clark and Lois's efforts to have a child together actually constituted a season-long subplot on "Supergirl"; scientific means were used to conceive the child, and then Clark and...

It will be on the free CW streaming app tomorrow, but you'll have to sit through the commercials. I wish it was on HBO Max, because I have a feeling this would look phenomenal in 4K and HDR.

Visually, it reminded me a lot of Superman Returns -- the subdued palette, the faded beauty of that movie's Smallville. It looked way more expensive than any of the other Arrowverse shows, though, even more expensive than the CBS season of "Supergirl". As bleak as the world of the show is, it...

First season episode count increased to 15

Season Trailer:

Series premiere expanded to fill a 90-minute time slot:

New Promo:

Another new promotional photo: It looks like they're using the same location for the Kent Farm that was used by "Smallville" and "Supergirl".

The new suit: Definitely an improvement on the suit he wore on "Supergirl", but I wish they'd bring back the yellow belt and red trunks.