After appearances in the Arrowverse, Taylor Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch reprise their roles as Superman and Lois in their own eponymous series -

The CW

  • Launched Wednesday on the American channel CW, the series

    Superman & Lois

    is part of the Arrowverse, but it remains still unseen in France.

  • Between America's boyscout from the comics and Zack Snyder's God Among the Living, the series explores an original path and focuses on Clark Kent, the father and husband.

  • Already appeared in

    Supergirl

    , Taylor Hoechlin is perfect in the costume.

At the end of

Kill Bill 2

, Bill launched into a monologue which Quentin Tarantino has the secret, a reflection on the nature of superheroes, and more particularly of Superman.

According to him, Superman is different from Spider-Man or Batman, because it is not Clark Kent who becomes Superman, but the reverse, Superman, or Kal-El, who puts on glasses and suit, his "costume" of Clark Kent. .

He even goes further by claiming that Clark Kent reflects Supes' image of humanity, namely weak, clumsy, cowardly.

A questionable idea, but that Zack Snyder revisits in his

Man of Steel,

and his God among men, far from the image of the "boyscout of America" ​​of the beginnings of comics and films with Christopher Reeves.

This is where the Superman of the American channel CW and the Arrowverse landed, the DC universe bringing together the series

Arrow

,

The Flash

,

Legends of Tomorrow

,

Batgirl

,

Black Lightning

and

Supergirl

.

Introduced in season 2 of the latter, then super guest of the

Elseworld

and

Crisis on Infinite Earths

crossovers

, he has the right to his own series since Wednesday,

Superman & Lois

, with the same performers, respectively Taylor Hoechlin (

Teen Wolf

) and Elizabeth Tulloch (

Grimm

).

And it's off again for yet another 

origin story

 ?

Yes and no.

At the crossroads of different incarnations

The pilot's first minutes are thus a summary of what everyone knows more or less about Superman: his arrival as a baby on Earth, Papa and Mama Kent, the discovery of powers, the Daily Planet, the meeting with Lois… Everything is going very well. quickly, but above all further: they get married, have twins soon to be teenagers, lose their jobs ... Ah and we must always save the world.

Like this scene where he lifts a green car, a nod to the cover of the first

Action Comics

of 1938. Enough to make fans say that it is this version of the character, solar and positive, that the world needs, and not Zack Snyder's Christ alien.

Unless they are wrong, the creators of the series Greg Berlanti and Todd Helbing explore another path, at the crossroads of different known incarnations and even the

Smallville

and

Lois & Clark series

.

" Save the world.

Start at home.

"

Following a tragic but very human event, Clark and Lois must return to Smallville for a few days, and discover a small Kansas town dying, where the last inhabitants are fleeing and where industrial groups arrive.

They will decide to stay, because as the American poster advocates: “Save the world.

Start at home.

The series thus focuses more on Clark Kent's family problems than Superman's alien threats.

They exist from the pilot, through a mysterious villain, but the latter remains peripheral to the story and the hero himself grants him little importance.

He's busier with his teenage sons, Jonathan the high school star, and the the unsocial Jordan.

One of them is, of course, the worthy heir of his father.

An earthly and family series

Superman & Lois

wants to be earthly and family, and cites the

Everwood

and

Friday Night Lights series

as references.

But it also comes out of the mold of other Arrowverse series by offering more breadth, height and seriousness.

It may sound contradictory, but that's the whole dilemma of this superhero, like a perfect Taylor Hoechlin, and a little lost, in his costume.

Suit or cape.

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