Superman and Lois
Season 2 - Episode 4 - "The Inverse Method"
Clark/SM: Irons saves Clark from Bizarro with the hammer (at last), with Bizarro appearing to know or at least sense something about its properties, prompting him to fly away. Irons wars Clark against facing the creature alone, suggesting he seek Anderson's help, which Clark is none too thrilled to even consider.
Lois vs. Ally's cult / Lucy: "..a journey toward completion.." Language right out of the BS, anti-religious / psychobabble playbook conning innumerable saps since the 1970s. This B-plot of Lois trying to go up against someone who has threatened her read like season finale plotting in effect.
Lucy agrees to speak to Lois, but the conversation is--as expected--one-sided; Lucy blames Lois for driving their mother away, twisting their history to fit her narrative, and nearly destroying her relationship with Ally, who has successfully instilled the idea of unbroken trust i her followers--trust that can only be restored through self-help...and Ally's alleged vision.
Lucy also recorded her conversation with Lois, streaming it to the members of Ally's group--and Chrissy, who has been massaged into doubting Lois. Later, Chrissy requests a meeting with Ally to learn the truth about Lois (SEE NOTES)
Sam Lane / Lt. Anderson / "Supermen of America"/ Irons & Natalie: SM approaches Anderson, giving him a way to track Bizarro, but adds his teenage soldiers are not ready to face the creature. He requests Anderson notify him when the tracker get a hit, but Anderson being Anderson seeks to contain the threat on his own terms. That opportunity comes when Bizarro is located in Bolivia, where the teens attempt to capture the creature. That does not go too well, with two being killed, leaving Tag Harris alone and injured. As you'd expect, SM shows up to save Tag from an early series exit. Meanwhile, Irons dons the suit--despite it being nowhere near ready--and enters the fight, only to be batted away like an insect.
Taken to a military hospital (which Sam says is the best available), Rhodey--I mean Irons is unconscious and on life support. Natalie blames SM for not protecting her father (SEE NOTES).
I imagined Natalie would get her own suit, or use her fathers--against his wishes--and end up fighting something she's ill-prepared to face--
Jonathan / Candace: After what one would imagine some cold feet about using the Green Ligh--er-- "Yellow Mist" drug, Jonathan tires it out on the football field, where he's amazed by the enhancement high he receives.
Jordan/Sarah: Being helpful to a friend...and incredibly reckless, Jordan tries to foil a grocery store robbery by using freeze breath on the floor, but learns the store uses security cameras. Thanks to Sam using D.O.D. tech to scramble the footage, Sam warns his grandson that he's not ready to use his powers to fight crime...yet. With all that's happened to the family (including threats from Edge and Bizarro) Jordan asks Sam to train hm so he'll be ready to help his father one day....(SEE NOTES)
Lana/Kyle/Sarah: The secrets from Lana's past, including Kyle's alcoholism and Sarah's attempted suicide--are used by Dean in the mayoral race. To bury any exploitable secrets, Kyle heads to his old drinking hole, to speak to a woman he's maintained sexual relations with for some time (SEE NOTES).
NOTES:
Irons' suffering severe injury in the suit was so copy+pasted from Rhodey's fate in Captain America: Civil War. Since he was taken to a top-shelf military hospital, I suspect Anderson might pull a "Oliver Spencer" (The Six Million Dollar Man pilot movie's unscrupulous version of Oscar Goldman) and order the X-Kryptonite treatment on Irons not only to save his life, but to use him as the new leader of the "Supermen"--and a likely weapon against SM (through some blame-shifting).
I can also see Natalie becoming desperate to build her own suit, or use her fathers--against his wishes--and end up fighting something she's ill-prepared to face--perhaps her father.
Well, I predicted Jordan would try to take up the "family business," and now that's happening, but you can just see Lois' anger with this coming a mile away. Hopefully, Sam will teach Jordan to keep his mouth shut about the Kents' most guarded secrets.
Chrissy is either the most weak-minded woman on two feet, or she will prove herself to be the only other reporter Lois needs to partner with by breaking Ally's group.
A part of the script that was said to be explored, but was not centered on Sarah turning 15 years old, and as observed by some Latinos, she was supposed to celebrate her quinceañera (i.e. considered moving from childhood to womanhood).
Speaking of Sarah's side of the street, the last thing I want to see is her parents' relationship go south again in the event Kyle's other woman (or Dean) spills the beans. That's really moving in the horrid Aaron Spelling direction.
Boliva...absolutely amateurish CG landscapes, skies, bad green screen--the works.
The series returns on 2/22, where Jonathan--under the influence of Yellow Mist--punches Jordan to the ground, shocking the Superboy-in-training. That, and there's a double funeral, and considering both caskets were draped in American flags, it was a service for Tag's dead companions.
GRADE: B.