Smallville

Finale (Parts 1 & 2)
Aired 5/13/2011

Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) and Clark (Tom Welling) meet once again (The CW)

I originally started this review by describing my history with Smallville. Being 14 at the time and still more interested in cartoons than primetime series, a new live action show chronicling the early years of the young man who would become Superman seemed like the perfect series with which to make a transition. And I could write at length about what the show meant to me in its early seasons, how good the Lex/Lionel dynamic was compared to pretty much everything else on the show, and how it faltered as often as it soared (though never due to lack of ambition). Instead, let’s just get on with the actual review, shall we? Continue Reading