'Superman & Lois' Series Finale Ending Explained, Showrunners Talk Giving Show a Proper Ending [Spoilers]
WARNING: This post contains spoilers from the Superman & Lois series finale!
Superman & Lois came to an end tonight (December 2) after four seasons on The CW.
The series, based on the DC Comics, was the remaining comic book adaptation on the network, and aired an epic finale to conclude the chapter.
Tyler Hoechlin and Bitsie Tulloch starred in the show as the title characters, Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane.
Following the finale, the showrunners are explaining why the show ended the way it did.
Spoilers ahead.
Keep reading to find out more…
In the final episode, Clark went head-to-head with Lex Luthor (Michael Cudlitz) and defeated Doomsday with the help of his sons Jordan (Alexander Garfin) and Jonathan (Michael Bishop).
Following the events that went down, Clark hung up his superhero cape, saying goodbye to Superman and focusing on his community and watching his kids grow up. Lois’ cancer returned and she eventually dies, while Clark gets a pet dog to be by his side for his remaining days.
In the final moments of the episode, Clark dies and is reunited with Lois.
Here’s what the showrunners had to say about the finale and ending it the way they did, with the deaths of the show’s titular characters.
“We we were told at one point that we were the only live-action show that really got to conclude his story. So we felt that was a real opportunity. For us, there’s so many questions that you have about what it’s like to live that kind of life. We were doing Death of Superman. That’s what we were going to sell to the audience,” Brent Fletcher told Deadline. “But it’s actually a mislead, because the death of Superman doesn’t happen until the end of episode 10, and we felt like it was to show that that was a life well-lived. What are the auspices of a life well-lived? It’s hope, joy, family and good all these things that he is. It was a hard thing to compact, but we felt that that montage could give a little window into that and give a little inspiration. We’re all mortal, and maybe there’s a beauty to our mortality that even Superman faces. So we thought it was kind of a neat thing. It was something that we were excited about, and so we followed that muse.”
Todd Helbing adds, “In the history of Superman, he is in a lot of ways immortal, right? He’s gonna live forever. He’s gonna outlive Lois. He’s gonna outlive his boys. But in this version, with what happened to him, he wasn’t going to do that anymore. So it just felt like, instead of having more questions for the audience about, ‘Oh, I wonder what he was like when he was old,’ it’s like, let’s just show it to them. We’ve never seen that. I think it’s really moving in a way that’s unexpected. Those are the best kind of endings.”
If you missed it, the real reason why Superman & Lois came to an end was revealed…
Superman and Lois will next be seen on screen in the upcoming Superman movie, due out on July 11, 2025!