At first glance, one might think that the character in Supes’ rogues gallery- maybe even all the DCU- that one would feel the least amount of sympathy for would be Doomsday, yet the writers of this show prove me wrong. Although firmly grounded in the origin established by Dan Jurgens in “Hunter/Prey,” the show took the character a step further by making him sympathetic. To top all that off, I was sincerely impressed by how the writers handled Doomsday. He is surprisingly layered and very strong here, and moves the story to unpredictable places through his machinations (Doomsday! Black Mercy! Wegthor!). Zod oscillates between the cold, calculating dictator to the brilliant general scheming behind his army’s lines to the spoiled child who desperately wanted more time with his parents. Tony Salmon did an amazing job portraying Superman’s arch nemesis, and much to my surprise, really gave Terrence Stamp a run for his money. Where the featured bad guy of season 1 was perhaps my favorite of the entire series, Brainiac, played by Blake Ritson, the featured bad of season 2 is General Zod. For a Superman show without Superman, we did get a heaping helping of his bad guys, some of whom had never been seen in live action. I would be remiss if I didn’t begin any conversation about this show without first talking about the villains.įar and away the strength of the series, Superman’s villains have seldom been depicted better. Here are some of my thoughts on season 2. Whatever happens, I’ve been very pleased with what we’ve gotten so far with this show. A show like this might be too expensive for live cable but are tailor made for content-hungry streaming stations. Personally, I’m hoping that it might follow a similar path as The Expanse, also cancelled by SyFy but picked up later on by Amazon. But WB and SyFy Channel decided to throw me a curveball the very next day and outright cancel the show, as everyone is probably aware by now.Ĭameron Welsh, the series producer/writer/showrunner has said that they are actively shopping the potential Lobo spinoff, and hasn’t ruled out the possibility that Krypton could be picked up somewhere else as well. I’ll confess I was going to write a review of Krypton season 2 right after the season (series?) finale aired a few weeks ago.
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