Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it s a dramatically complex father figure whose alien nature pushes him away from his troubled son! (Image: Dean Buscher/The CW)
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Adapting Superman is always a daunting task. He’s the ultimate beacon of hope, to some that perfection makes him either too simplistic to be interesting or in desperate need of a flaw.
The debut pilot for the CW's latest DC Comics show feels like unlike anything we've seen in the Arrowverse so far, taking Supergirl's Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as Superman and Lois Lane and giving them a heaping dose of complex family drama.