'Superman & Lois' Season 4 Has Arrived On Max
It truly went by so fast, and now “it” refers to the wait to get the final season of the CW series on the streamer
It was just about a month ago that Superman & Lois wrapped up its four-season, 53 episode run on The CW, likely closing the book on DC Comics adaptations after 28 years of the network’s existence that had been controllably co-owned by Warner Bros. from its 1995 founding to the 2022 majority sale to Nexstar. Having been created and premiered after The CW and Netflix ended their output deal, the series starring Tyler Hoechlin and Bitsie Tulloch made Max its streaming home, and as of January 1, with the addition of that fourth and final season, the full series is now available there.
It’s certainly a bright spot amidst traffic that was…unkind to their animated library, though it didn’t quite have a lot of fanfare. It was listed among the arrivals amongst everything else, which is something but isn’t quite highlighted. Then again that’s probably better than Wild Cards being reported to arrive on Prime Video that day but it not actually happening. Still, Superman & Lois showed up on Max as promised, and the arrival speed was consistent with previous seasons. The Netflix output deal was infamously brought the latest seasons to the streamer basically a week from the next midnight after the finale aired. With Max, it’s 30 days, as all four seasons of Superman & Lois showed, as did Walker on a quick check to confirm whether it was specific to the former. And that might be why it didn’t get the fanfare, business as usual and such.
'Superman & Lois' Collects Final Shed Regular And A Fully-Formed Doomsday Headed Into Series Finale
How did that series finale go? Well, Superman does defeat Doomsday and Lex Luthor (Michael Cudlitz), but not before the former comes to his senses, his humanity as Bizarro lucidly remembered. He relents to being thrown into the sun, knowing everything he did. The DOD raid Milton Fine (Nikolai Witschl)’s base and arrest him, while Superman’s defeat of Lex includes the destruction of the exosuit. The first jump is to a year later, at the wedding of John Henry Irons (Wole Parks) and Lana Lang (Emmanuelle Chriqui), which Lois officiates. Chrissy Beppo (Sofia Hasmik) and Kyle Cushing (Erik Valdez) have their son and already have another baby on the way. Luthor is locked up stricter than he had been before, now under Bruno Mannheim’s thumb. Clark narrates that his father-in-law’s heart actually gave him another 32 years, and with the confidence in Jordan and Jonathan (Alex Garfin and Michael Bishop) earned from the battle, the boys become Superboys and basically form a team with dad and the Ironses. Lois and Clark even set up a charity foundation and open a hospital in the her father’s name. Jordan and Jonathan grow up, the latter delivering the cameo by Bitsie Tulloch’s husband and Grimm star David Giuntoli, get married and have quite a bunch of children. Unfortunately Lois’s cancer comes back strong, and without her, the world felt emptier. So Clark finally got Krypto, who here is an Earth dog. His first heart attack happens in the spot Pa died. When Clark does go, he tours through most of the important figures of his life, culminating in his reunion with Lois in the afterlife. Like Arrow and Supernatural before it. Showrunner Todd Helbing said “We wanted that to be full of light, and hopeful, and to represent everything that he and Lois stood for.” It really was quite the tearjerker. For the record, there was no reappearance for Tom Cavanagh as Gordon Godfrey. Must’ve been more an estimate than an exactness. With the right Max plan you can watch the full fourth season of Superman & Lois ad-free right now for the first time.
Source: TVLine