Written by Michael Narducci
Directed by James Bamford
General Lane (re Clark): "I don't like his priorities changing."
Lois: "It's called being a father."
Oh boy. It really did not take long for General Sam Lane to go the direction I expected him to go but also hoped that the show would avoid for a little longer. I saw it coming but again, it happened quicker than expected.
Sam has not been shy in his disapproval of Lois and Clark moving to Smallville. He was less pleased about the boys finding out their dad is Superman and now he's not so thrilled with the idea of Jordan having powers and joining the football team.
On top of that, he's also worried about Clark's shifting priorities and this episode almost justified his fears when it took Superman longer to respond to radicalized criminal, Thaddeus R Killgrave (Brendan Fletcher), due to another storyline involving Jonathan and Jordan's football friend, Tag.
I'll have to admit there was probably potential in Killgrave but he was a wasted guest villain and seemed to serve more to make a point about Clark being pulled in different directions more than posing an actual threat, in spite of his neat sonic gun. Saying that though, he'll probably resurface again.
As for Tag - his story reminded me of Smallville and the freak of the week episodes they would often do. It was the weakest element of the episode but it was nice to see Jonathan and Jordan try to solve the problem first and also nice that Jordan wasn't entirely responsible for Tag's predicament. Actually the episode noticeably was less angsty for Jordan though we did see Jonathan struggle a little.
As for Lois - Morgan Edge got the better of her twice this episode. He managed to use the threat of legal action to prevent her writing another damning article on him for now and the town meeting went in his favour. That now means both him and Leslie Larr have a lot of Krypronite at their disposal to make an army for themselves.
- Morgan seemed to take a fancy to Lana, she was rightly annoyed by him and Kyle remains an insensitive prat, though he did make pancakes for the family.
- Brendan Fletcher who played Killgrave also played the Star City Slayer in the seventh season of Arrow.
- I'm gonna keep saying this but the Smallville Gazette could do with more staff, other than Lois and Chrissy and why didn't they include the latter on the girls night out with Lana?
- Chronology: We took a trip six years ago for some Morgan Edge backstory but other than that, not a lot of time has passed since the previous episode.
Haywire is probably the weakest episode so far but there's enough to keep it going. I do love the family drama but it's a shame that guest villain like Killgrave was wasted in the mix between Lois, Clark and General Lane but other than that, the show is still delivering on the right moments.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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