Written by Brent Fletcher
Directed by Gregory Smith
Clark: "Thanks for the assist."
Lois: "You sure about this?"
Clark: "No, but I gotta try."
Lois: "Alright, I gotta run. See you later, coach,"
I gotta be honest. I have never watched a single episode of Friday Night Lights in my life and even I could tell this episode was massively influenced by it. I already read up that the writer for this episode a'so wrote for the popular NBC series, so it kind of makes sense.
The main plot points of this episode for the Kent boys was learning that their father has super hearing and while they were keen to know if Clark ever heard anything involving nudity, they were a lot less keen when they realised that their father could also hear them.
Clark making a promise not to eavesdrop at Lou's's behest managed to win Jonathan round but a less pleased Jordan decided to try out for the football team and both Clark and Jonathan had their own mixed feelings on the matter.
I genuinely thought this would lead to Jordan inadvertently injuring some of the lads giving him a hard time but if anything, it resulted in him and Sean (who Sarah dumped) into being cool with each other and Clark taking on an assistant coach role in order to be closer to his sons.
As for the more cape related stuff, Lois has only been working for Chrissy Beppo for a few days and already her investigative nature has seen come afoul of Morgan Edge with the likes of Subjekt 11 (Daniel Cudmore) being sent to deal with her as well as worried mother, Sharon Powell (Jill Teed).
This lead to a really strong fight sequence between Superman and Subjekt 11 but any hopes of a potential rematch were cashed when Leslie Larr incinerated the latter at the end of this one. I have to admit the reveal of Leslie being Kryptonian wasn't something I saw coming and congrats on the show for keeping that one under their cape until the episode aired.
As for the Cushing-Lang, we got a lot on them this week. Sarah dumped her boyfriend, quit cheerleading, seems to like Jordan while at the sake time had no problem verbally annihilating her family. We did get some insight into Lana and Kyle's rocky marriage as well as Sophie being a bully along with a nice later scene with Lana and Sarah where both opened up a little more to each other.
- No appearances or mentions of Captain Luthor or General Sam Lane this week. Even Morgan Edge stayed out of sight here.
- New Carthage seems to be the place for any investigation for Lois. At some point Chrissy will have to add another staff member to cover those other stories.
- Daniel Cudmore who played Subjekt 11 previously played Jackhammer in Arrow, Gridlock in The Flash and a Minotaur in Legends Of Tomorrow.
- Chronology: It's been a week since the Kents moved to Smallville.
The Perks Of Not Being A Wallflower arguably might be the first standalone episode but it's surprisingly stronger than expected. I do wish they hadn't gotten rid of Subjekt 11 so quickly but the Leslie Larr was a nice surprise and the family drama from both the Kents and Cushing-Lang was good.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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