Superman and Lois – A Regular Guy review S4 E7
A Regular Guy took the Superman and Lois version of Clark Kent to his most likely destination as the series comes to a conclusion.
The burden of maintaining his secret identity has become more challenging than ever as Clark is running around Smallville trying to convince everyone he’s a regular guy.
Denise and Coach Gaines eventually fall for Clark’s deception, but Jon’s classmate Timmy Ryan won’t back down from what he knows he saw when Doomsday killed Superman. Even when his mother tries to get him to apologize. This makes the Kent boys feel lousy as Timmy isn’t lying.
A Regular Guy doubles down on the significance of that battle on multiple levels for the Kent family.
Doomsday killed Clark, which led to Gen. Lane’s sacrifice; it traumatized Lois and the boys who couldn’t maintain the illusion when confronted with Clark’s legit death.
Committing to the secret identity has come with a cost for Clark namely his best pal, Jimmy Olsen (Douglas Smith), who is revisited via flashbacks.
Incredibly, for Superman & Lois showrunners who are given the chance to fix a mistake made with Supergirl, they cast an actor in Smith who’s taller than Tyler Hoechlin. Again.
Smith is a solid Jimmy Olsen despite being a brunette instead of a redhead. His sister, Janet (Yoshié Bancroft), is also a reporter at the Daily Planet. Janet warned Jimmy about asking Clark to play in the paper softball league since he never does anything with his co-workers.
Lois gets Clark to reconsider, and he actually has fun being the Bunt King. That’s not a bad secret weapon and doesn’t raise any suspicion from Clark’s regular guy persona.
After a while, Clark has to start missing games to deal with emergencies. Jimmy isn’t stupid and puts together that Clark is Superman, which Clark has to deny. To maintain the charade, Clark deliberately misses the championship game to end Jimmy’s theory.
As usual for Superman & Lois, the supporting character roulette wheel doesn’t land on an exciting subplot. For A Regular Guy, it’s back to Kyle and Chrissy, who are looking at a house out of their price range.
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Chrissy can afford the down payment if she sells her share of The Gazette. Good on the Regular Guy writers for being aware that media isn’t exactly a thriving investment these days. Lois and Clark have a solution — they’ll use some of Gen. Lane’s inheritance to buy Chrissy’s share so they can get the house.
Clark gets upset learning that Jordan and Jon told Candice the truth. He makes sure they understand the sacrifices necessary to maintain the secret.
Jon says he understands why Clark doesn’t have any friends trying to maintain the secret, stating it’s sad and that he doesn’t want to live that way.
In the context of a Regular Guy, Clark’s actions are clear but the fallout of that action — which comic writer Brian Michael Bendis couldn’t properly play out — is what makes Superman’s secret identity so important.
Candice’s father, Emmitt, drunkenly walks into the diner with a gun demanding Clark a reveal that he’s Superman. With so many innocents in harm’s way, he simply turns to Superman and deflects the bullet. Then, Clark apologizes to everyone for lying.
The one shaky aspect of A Regular Guy was Clark got forced into outing himself, which made his doubling down on his lying look worse.
To tie everything together, it wasn’t Candice who told her father about Superman, but his prison mate — Lex Luthor. Clark and Lois think this will be a recurring issue unless he doesn’t keep it a secret anymore…
Straight from the Kent kitchen, news crews are on hand as Janet interviews Clark, who reveals he’s Superman.
To play secret identity advocate, Lois doesn’t have powers. How long would it take for any of Superman’s enemies not named Lex Luthor to firebomb the house or her office? Or go after Kyle/Chrissy or John Henry and Nat or Lana and her girls?
The secret identity is so Clark isn’t Superman 24/7 not so he can lie to everyone. This also raises all kinds of journalistic integrity questions about every story Lois wrote about Superman.
Janet asks if there’s anything else he wants people to know — “that I’m just a regular guy.”
To close out the episode, Clark meets up with Jimmy, who is perfectly understanding and happy to catch back up.
This gives A Regular Guy a pat happy ending, but it could have been more interesting to see how this reveal plays out over the course of a season instead of the home stretch of the series. Would people feel hurt and betrayed? How would Clark justify those valid feelings from others he inadvertently hurt?
Regardless, this was a very well-crafted episode that handled the big secret in the best possible manner.
Rating: 9.5 out of 10
Photo Credit: CW
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