Episode Review: Prophecy
It’s hard to believe that this will be the last standard episode review that I will ever write for Smallville. Even harder to believe is that this is the last normal-length episode any of us will ever see of this [...]
Episode Review: Dominion
The one thing I kept thinking as I watched “Dominion” last week was how difficult a show it was going to be to review. It isn’t that I wasn’t entertained or that I found the episode hard to pin down [...]
Episode Review: Booster
Smallville continued its streak of well-made, entertaining episodes last Friday with “Booster”. While not among my absolute favorite episodes of Season 10, “Booster” had more than enough humor, action, and romance to keep it squarely in my “liked it” column. [...]
Episode Review: Kent
And with the triumphant reappearance of the “Work With Me People” mug, Smallville has returned. Season 10 continues to leave our beloved series on a high note as we go, faster than a speeding bullet, into the final five episodes [...]
Episode Review: Scion
It’s such a relief to finally be able to talk about the plot twists of “Scion”. One of the things that has most excited me about the remainder of Season 10 since around the time that Michael Rosenbaum’s announcement came [...]
Episode Review: Fortune
Just to warn everyone who’s stuck with these reviews for the last six months, this one’s going to be quite different. I knew when I watched “Fortune” unfold last Friday that this was undoubtedly going to be the most challenging [...]
Episode Review: Masquerade
If “Beacon” was one of the best episodes of Season 10, “Masquerade” was one of the most fun, possibly of the entire series. It was so fun, in fact, that I’m willing to overlook certain things in this episode that [...]
Episode Review: Beacon
Now this is what I call a successful rebound from “Collateral”. I knew, strictly based on the meager spoilers I’d managed to learn before going into this episode, that “Beacon” was pretty much predetermined to be a better show than [...]
Episode Review: Collateral
It is said that negative reviews are more entertaining to read and to write than positive ones. I can honestly say, though, that I’m truly disheartened at having to pick an episode clean from a critical standpoint when it’s part [...]
Episode Review: Icarus
Your long-suffering reviewer must apologize for this much-belated review of “Icarus”, but I tend to approach mid-season finales in the same way as actual season finales. There were a tremendous number of “big” moments crammed into this particular episode. Enough [...]
Hawkman’s Funeral Song Revealed!
Many have been wondering what that haunting piece of music was that played over Hawkman’s final scene in “”. Now, thanks to The Definitive Smallville Soundtrack, we finally have the answer! The track is called “City Lights” by Paul Taneja. [...]
Episode Review: Luthor
Here’s a little-known fact about your author: I’m a closet fan of Superman III. I’ve always held the belief that movies needn’t necessarily be “good” to be entertaining, and as such, I’ve found so much to enjoy in the ill-fated [...]
Episode Review: Patriot
Smallville’s final season has certainly intrigued me so far, not only as a fan, but as a critic. Typically, I’ve always known with a relative amount of assuredness which episodes I would end up enjoying more than others based on [...]
Episode Review: Abandoned
As of this writing, I’ve seen “Abandoned” twice. I’m also watching it again as I go through this review, so by the time all of you see this, I’ll have checked it out three times. So did I love this [...]
Episode Review: Ambush
Last week in my review of “Harvest”, I mentioned that one thing I hoped to see going forward in Season 10 were more episodes that simply advanced the mythology of Smallville as opposed to ones that adhered to one central [...]