Series Review: My Adventures With Superman Season 2, a weak but promising premiere

86 years have passed since one of the greatest superheroes in modern history first appeared in Action Comics #1, and he’s still making history.

This character has had many changes over just over 8 decades, he already died once, was revived, married his eternal love, Lois Lane, had children, and has fought and defended our planet with a limited gallery of villains, the Merchandising is vast and its collectibles are still valid to this day, costing millions of dollars.

Recently the CEO of Warner Bros. James Gunn presented what will be the modified and modernized emblem as well as a photo that has caused a stir on social networks, after the changes made in the studio and the cancellation of films and series it seems that it is Superman’s turn to save them from bankruptcy in this coming 2025.

Among the changes that occurred, the CW television series belonging to the Arrowverse was definitively canceled with the premiere of its final season pending, something that has caught the attention of locals and strangers was the renewal for a second and possible third season of the series. animated My Adventures with Superman.

Although the first season left us surprised by its new animation and its stories, this second installment promises to be better than the first. It will introduce new characters that curiously and coincidentally have also been said to be in the film directed by Gunn.

It is not surprising that projects like this continue to be in force to attract a new audience and keep interested the veterans who still have a taste for this hero and his stories.

What will this second season be about?

Continuing with the events that happened in the first season, Superman/Clark Kent (Jack Quaid), Losi Lane (Alice Lee), and Jimmy Olsen (Ishmel Sahid) will continue to be in the news while the Kryptonian saves the city from forces that want to destroy us, these three Inseparable friends will face new threats from which powerful enemies from Clark’s alien past will emerge. Amanda Waller (Debra Wilson) will have a new ally to combat and capture Superman, Lois will deal with the future and Jimmy Olsen will be the leader of a new grouping in the Daily Planet.

This series was created and developed by Jake Wyatt, Brendan Clougher, and Josie Campbell and produced by Warner Bros. Animation in association with Studio Mir in South Korea shows us a completely new and renewed vision of the iconic superhero along with this presents a more current version, fresh and friendly of the relationship he has with Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, a new suit, a new emblem, the same origin that we all know but now from another perspective and already known villains with another visual style.

Regarding the first season, we can say that it left the series with a very high bar for a possible renewal, which after the changes in the studios seemed like it was not going to happen at least in 2024 and the surprise has been that this project has already is premiering, the episodes that are already airing are:

Episode 1: More Things in Heaven and Earth:

Valentine’s Day has arrived and Clark plans a perfect date with Lois, while this is happening they meet with Jimmy at the STAR Labs facilities to interview Hank Henshaw (Max Mittelman). While they are there a young Alex and assistant to Anthony Ivo (Jake Green) is fired without any justification, Lois and Clark discover that there is a strange meteorite heading towards Earth which takes them to the Arctic to investigate, there Clark in his ship meets the hologram of his biological father Jor-El that reveals to him more about his origin and that he is not the last survivor of the planet Krypton, there is someone else who he has to search and find before the government does, and it is his cousin Kara Zor-El who was also able to leave the planet before his destruction, Lois and Jimmy discover that Kryptonite is affecting the ship while Waller, Wilson, and Agent Ethan Avery lead a Task Force X detachment to control the alien technology, Superman fights Avery until Jor-El uses the power of the spaceship to purify the Kryptonite and turn it into a fortress to serve as a refuge for Kal-El when he finds Kara, Waller holds Sam prisoner after accusing him of treason.

This opening episode establishes more specifically the relationship between Clark and Lois, which is nothing new because we already know in advance how all this will end, Superman is the official hero and protector of Metropolis and tries to develop a new subplot with Jimmy Olsen who is now a millionaire, setting new rules for the rest of the season.

Episode 2: Adventures with My Girlfriend:

The Task Force and Lois help a boy find his father who mysteriously disappeared after uncovering a conspiracy, Superman and Lois enter the prison to rescue Sam and stumble upon Task Force X’s new base and discover that Waller has been kidnapping prisoners. they could not pay bail to use them as test subjects to test new technology, while they evacuate the prisoner Superman fights against Atomic Skull, after defeating him he recovers the key that Jor-El asked him to find and reunites with the Lanes and the prisoners who are rescued by Jimmy, Sam agrees to stay with Clark while Alex, who now defines himself as Lex Luthor, rescues Waller from Ivo’s attack and offers to form a partnership.

What we see here focuses more on reestablishing Lois’s father/daughter relationship with Sam which causes there to be meaningless emotional conflicts that are put in the service of a weak script to have some drama.

Episode 3: Fullmetal Scientist:

Superman rescues Silas Stone from a burning building and discovers that he has a new power, a force field, Willis threatens Silas to erase all records of a project he was working on, a group of robots called Metallo that for their structure represent a danger to the city, Lois and Vicky Vale fight to have the exclusive of the presentation of these robots and discover the mystery of the disappearance of several scientists, this pair of reporters continue competing to have the best note, Superman, Jimmy and Flip locate Irons who reveals that they were forced to accelerate the production of the Metallos and create an unstable reactor that powers the AmerTek facilities in Metropolis, Superman and Irons who now uses a mechanical suit and a sledgehammer, after stopping the catastrophe. Vale recognizes that Lois is a good reporter and offers her a job at Gotham Gazette, Luthor’s new company, LexCorp, purchases AmerTek and confiscates Irons’ suit and the Metallo Robots for use by the Task Force X team.

Being the most interesting of what has been presented, the screenwriter Cynthia Furey gives a twist to the plot by presenting something new from an old character, John Henry Irons makes his debut and presents a reinvention of the character Steel who apparently will be the one who helps Superman in the following episodes.

This season had a weak and very unimpressive premiere, the first season prioritized smaller character arcs over a large plot establishing Clark’s relationship with Lois and the discovery of his superpowers while he was at the center of the action, now that We know this, the action should be more direct and less of a romantic comedy, to be clear, these 3 episodes are not that bad but they are far from having more action, which was just what we expected and what in itself it promised.

We well know that this series gives a new vision of these characters, its narrative is not told or focused entirely from a first-person point of view, it is rather the story of Superman seen and told by Lois and involving everyone else who pretends to be a great reporter.

With only 3 episodes presented, we still do not have a clear idea of ​​how these stories are going to develop and what role the new characters will have in them. The inclusion of Kara Zor-El/Supergirl in this universe can work for or against everything will depend. how they present it and what story and subplot will develop from this.

We know that among the characters that will appear during the remaining 7 chapters will be Silver Banshee, Mist, Heat Wave, Lex Luthor, Brainiac, General Zod, Metallo, and the already-known Livewire, Parasite, and Mister Mxyzptlk.

It is neither a coincidence nor a coincidence that this series survives the changes with the premiere of Gunn’s film pending we will see many similarities between the story that goes to the cinema and this one that remains in streaming to keep Superman current for the remainder of this year and during 2025.

The voice cast in this season is made up of Jack Quaid, Alice Lee, Ishmel Sahid, Darrell, Kari Wahlgren, Reid Scott, Byron Marc Newsome, Jason Marnocha, Zehra Fazal, Azuri Hardy-Jones, Chris Parnell, Debra Wilson, Joel de la Fuente, Catherine Taber, Lucas Grabeel, Vincent Tong, Jake Green, Max Mittelman, Laila Berzins, Melanie Minichino, Kenna Ramsey, André Sogliuzzo, David Errigo Jr, Andromeda Dunker and Michael Emerson.

As for the animation, there is not much to say, it follows the simple and simple lines but at the same time they are attractive and make a great combination with the colorful backgrounds of Metropolis, the design and the reinvention of the new characters continue to be surprising and gives a friendly and fresh twist on what we already know.

Once again we hear the entrance theme song composed by Kyle Troop and The Heretics and the music composed by Dominic Lewis and Daniel Futcher that does not offer anything new, the same chords and pieces that are recycled from the previous season and that are only there to help what is necessary.

In conclusion, My Adventures With Superman Season 2 offers a weak and slow work that seems spectacular and that we hope will improve if it wants to remain current with its new and modern story.

My Adventures With Superman with its first and second seasons is now available on the Max platform.