Superman and Lois season 1, episode 10 review: O Mother, Where Art Thou?

“I need you by my side or you will be eradicated.” Spoilers for Superman and Lois season 1, episode 10 follow.

The truth is out as Morgan Edge has revealed who he truly is to the Man of Steel and his plan’s endgame is now dawning in Superman and Lois.

In response, Superman is rushing to figure out how to save everyone who had their lives stolen by Edge while Lois tries to save everyone else.

New Krypton in Superman and Lois

What does an invading species do? They take the people already there and destroy them so that they can thrive in their place. Well, that’s exactly what Morgan Edge’s plan is when it comes to Earth. It’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets every serial killer imaginable. We’ve already seen this in the macro in the flashbacks from John Henry’s Earth, but it’s entirely something different seeing it on a personal level.

The body horror-esque style the show goes into when depicting these new Kryptonians is incredibly creepy and not something that one would have expected from this show, yet it works incredibly well. The vocal modulation in these new Kryptonians, whether it’s harsh like Kyle or soft like Lana, creates such an alien voice that really helps emphasize the awful nature of the consciousness transplant. It’s horrific in such a subtle way that fits perfectly into the show.

But obviously, Edge isn’t done with just throwing Kryptonian consciousnesses into human bodies, even if his machine has been stolen. He is set for the all-out eradication of the human race through fire and destruction it seems. In fact, with how far Edge is willing to go, and the fact that his machine that replaces consciousnesses is called the Eradicator, it wouldn’t be shocking if he even took on that identity by the end of the season.

With all that said though, Edge’s army is ready to take down Superman and the show responds by taking the body horror elements seen early on in the episode and simply changing that to a growing sense of dread. Obviously, this isn’t the end for Superman, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not terrifying seeing a bunch of seemingly normal people suddenly take flight in order to attack the Man of Steel. And even though Superman seemingly won the battle, it still feels like the war is incoming.

Broken families

After the end of last episode, with Kyle acting like he didn’t know what happened after he left the talent show, it left the question of whether the people with Kryptonian consciousnesses implanted in them suffered from split personalities. However, it turns out that he was just lying. His Kryptonian personality had now taken over, seemingly completely. This creates for some very intense scenes for Lana and Sarah as the episode progresses and it pushes Lana to do something that only she can do – take on Clark’s Kryptonian mother’s consciousness so that she can reverse the process that Edge has accomplished.

This allows for some great scenes between “Lana” and Clark that really emphasize the extremist that Morgan Edge is. While Lara preaches peace, Edge preaches Kryptonian Supremacy, which Clark quickly fights back against, refusing to even consider joining in on Edge’s Kryptonian holy war, which would be more akin to a genocide.

This was such a great way to use Lana in this episode as it makes her feel like an essential component of the series. However, it pushes a bit too hard into the realm of suspension of disbelief that she didn’t recognize Clark as Superman.

Teenage doubt

As for Jonathan and Jordan though, they have to figure out a way to help Sarah through this all. She’s shutting her mom out and, at the beginning, shutting Jordan out as well. She’s been hurt so much already throughout these10 episodes that this isn’t really all that surprising either.

However, Jonathan shows why he’s Superman’s son, even without powers, when he forgoes evasion and stalling tactics and just tells Sarah the truth. At the outset, it may seem like a dumb, impulsive move for him to do, but it really wasn’t. It was 100% the right call. It’s totally in character for Jonathan to do so and it saved a lot of unnecessary drama so that the show could focus on the real drama that was needed; the drama between Sarah and her “dad.” It was a really smart move and really helped build up Jonathan’s character in a great way while also avoiding a terrible cliché.

Superman and Lois knocks it out of the park once again with this week’s episode as we soon head into the final act of the season.

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