Superman and Lois season 2, episode 11 review: Truth and Consequences

“You’re my son, and I love you. And I’m not going to let anything happen to you.” Spoilers for Superman and Lois season 2, episode 11 follow.

Bizarro Jonathan has made his way to Earth, but luckily, Superman stops him before he can merge with Jon.

However, just because he failed this one, that doesn’t mean that he’s finished trying to merge himself together.

Here’s everything that went down on Superman and Lois season 2, episode 11 “Truth and Consequences”.

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So, now that we know exactly why Bizarro Jonathan has come to the Kent farm, this episode wastes absolutely no time with Bizarro Jonathan going for Jon’s throat. Literally. It’s honestly a really intense opening scene to the episode and builds the stakes of the episode very well. It really felt that Jon wasn’t going to be saved at the beginning and, because of that, it feels that at, any moment, the two could merge and all hell will break loose.

But just because Jon has been saved for now, that doesn’t mean that Bizarro Jonathan is just gonna give up obviously. So, who does he go for? None other than Lana, which makes so much sense from both a plot and character perspective that the fact it still feels like a shock that he goes after her is genuinely great.

As for our Jon though, it’s nice to see how the Bizarro plot is still wrapping into the family drama that has been permeating for the past several episodes between him and his parents. Clark is scared for his son, but that doesn’t mean that he just forgets about the mistakes that he’s made. It makes for some great family tension that doesn’t feel forced within the episode and it doubles back around to how Lana figures into the episode too, which is great.

This episode does a great job of portraying every member of the Kent household as flawed, yet ultimately heroic figures in such a human way, which is a trademark of the show at this point, so it shouldn’t be surprising, yet it still is.

Relationship issues

The worst part of this episode, by far, is the Jordan and Sara break-up sub-plot. It’s just bad. Jordan is a whiny little jerk for basically most of the episode because of this and it’s simply because, it’s not the right time for any of it. So much more important stuff is going on than his relationship drama, which so many other characters try to point out to him in the episode, but he still pushes regardless. Like, seriously, NOT THE TIME, JORDAN. It’s the first time the the show has really fallen in the CW relationship drama trap, which is ultimately forgivable if it’s the first time in 26 episodes. Still frustrating though.

But at least, because of the problematic relationship drama, we get a great, albeit short, scene between Jon and Jordan that shows, even despite everything happening, they still can have fun and laugh with each other, even for a short time.

Secrets

The tension between Jon and Clark in this episode also leads to probably the most monumental decision on this show so far, as Clark ponders over whether or not he should tell Lana that he’s Superman. This is something that has been a long time coming. It was one of the most surprising character pieces that Lana didn’t know who Superman was, so now, after two seasons of clamoring for Clark to finally tell her, that’s exactly what we get as the final scene in this episode.

This scene is honestly so great for one reason and one reason alone: Tyler Hoechlin. The way he’s able to convey the fear and cautious optimism in telling his best friend who he actually is, he’s brilliant. Hoechlin understands that even though Superman is the most powerful person in the world, he’s still just Clark at the end of the day. He’s just human and he’s just as scared of revealing a hard truth to someone that he cares about as anyone would be. It’s an amazing scene.

Despite arguably the weakest B-plot in the entire show, this episode of Superman and Lois season 2 is still great for many reasons, but mainly because of Tyler Hoechlin.

Superman and Lois season 2 returns to The CW on Tuesday, May 31, at 8:00 p.m. ET on The CW.

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