Superman and Lois season 1, episode 6 review: Broken Trust

“Something sinister is going on here and you might not find out what it is before it’s too late.” Spoilers for Superman and Lois season 1, episode 6 follow.

After being attacked by someone else with powers, Jordan’s powers begin to develop more, forcing Clark to prioritize being a father and forget about Superman, just for a couple of days.

As for Lois, she continues to hunt for more info on Morgan Edge’s mine, even without the help of anyone else in town. With that, here’s everything that went down in the returning episode of the new Arrowverse series.

Teenage headaches

One of the best things about Superman and Lois has been the family dynamic that has been displayed over every episode so far and, after an extended hiatus, that’s no different for this first episode back. The dynamic between Clark, Jordan, and Jonathan is once again fantastic here and the fact that it continues to get better with each episode is a testament to how good the writing of this show is.

Throughout “Broken Trust”, there are several different emotions that these three have in accordance to each other and all of them feel incredibly organic. The joy of Jordan using his strength correctly, Jonathan’s fear of Jordan not being okay, Clark’s fear for his son’s well-being; there’s a lot going on this episode with a lot of shifts in tone and yet, it just works so well.

As for Jordan himself, there’s a lot of great work done with him, especially with his monologue to Clark after the football game. It’s an incredibly authentic monologue for someone with depression and anxiety and it gets to the heart of who Jordan is.

Tag, you’re wanted

Probably the weakest portion of this episode is Tag though. It’s nice that the show isn’t just ignoring him after he got his powers, or just shunting him off to be a villain in season 2, but he doesn’t really do much beyond kidnapping Sarah.

Sure, we get to see how far the military is willing to go, even using Kryptonite bullets on Superman, to retrieve him (thus beginning the true distrust that Clark should have in Sam Lane), but that’s about all this episode is for. It uses Tag as a plot device to ensure that Superman loses trust in the military, thus more than likely setting up the excuse for Luthor to prove that he was right about this world’s Superman as well. It’s a smart way to build that plot, it’s just too bad that the character that was used to instill it was barely given the chance to be a character in his own right.

Something wicked comes to Superman and Lois

As for Lois, she’s still on the hunt for anything, even the smallest grain of dirt, that she can get on Morgan Edge. Whenever she has come close in the past, something has happened to make her lose every bit of ground that she had seemingly gained and the townspeople of Smallville, including Lana, won’t help her. However, this doesn’t mean that she’s just dead in the water.

Just when she’s about out of leads though who shows up but Luthor himself. This makes for such a great dynamic between the two as we, the audience, know that Lois shouldn’t trust Luthor, but still know that she should use his help. It creates a great sense of tension while watching the episode that is expounded on by Elizabeth Tulloch’s continuously wonderful performance. She plays Lois so well. Always inquisitive, never fully trusting of anyone besides Clark, and just wanting to get to the truth. This is such a great version of Lois Lane.

As for what Lois and Luthor find though, this is the endgame for Edge. We know he wants the Kryptonite in these mines to make more Kryptonians, but we also know that Luthor wants it as well. Moving forward, this will hopefully make a for a great dynamic between Luthor and Edge’s plans.

After an extended hiatus, Superman & Lois returns and, despite not hitting every beat perfectly, it’s a really strong first episode back.

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