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January 16, 2007: “Variety” Praises “Smallville”

Variety has published an article/review of the TV series "Smallville" leading in to the up-coming, much-hyped "Justice" episode. Here's a portion of the review...

The real skill, however, resides with the storytelling under exec producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who, in essence, have spent the last six years working backward -- filling in the gap in the first "Superman" movie between Clark racing through those Kansas cornfields and Superman's John Williams-accompanied flight out of the Fortress of Solitude. Moreover, they have done so while, at times, boldly reimagining DC Comics lore, such as the notion that Superman's Kryptonian father, Jor-El, wasn't necessarily being a kindly benefactor when he shipped his only son to Earth.

At this point, "Smallville" has exhausted many of those strings, and the cast, led by Welling, is looking a bit too grown-up to extend the teen-into-young-adult pretense much longer. The producers themselves have joked that having the fictional principals be at least 18 mercifully unlocked some romantic possibilities starting in season five, under the heading "Everyone's Legal."

Read the complete review at the Variety website.