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There’s trouble in store for Superman & Lois, and this season it starts at home

LAST YEAR, SUPERMAN & LOIS delved deep into the show’s mythology with Bizarro World and the merging of the Earths. When the superhero drama returns, it promises to pull back on the science fiction to focus more on emotional, family-orientated and character-driven storylines. To emphasise that point, the recent teaser trailer hinted that Lois might be pregnant.

“Coming out of season two, we were dealing with a lot of Covid issues still,” showrunner Todd Helbing tells Red Alert. “There was some stuff we weren’t able to do as far as relationships. We wanted to put Clark and Lois in a really good spot. You see them at the top of the premiere as healthy as they’ve been… Maybe as frisky as they have ever been. There are clearly some ripples that come out of that. Whenever the introduction of another child comes in – you saw in season two, where Natalie showed up – it alters the family dynamic. We wanted to play with that idea a little bit and see where it takes us.”

Other complications also arise. An ace reporter, Lois begins to revisit a case and goes missing – or so it seems. Not wanting to exhaust the trope of Lois constantly being the damsel in distress, this scenario puts her journalistic skills, resourcefulness and tenacity front and centre.