It's always emotional family stories first, and then it gets into the heroics and mythology after that. What does that look like for them as parents? For the kids, how do we make that interesting and real? As parents, it becomes a juggling act of how you parent them and give them the individual love and guidance that they need. Lois is the most famous journalist in the world. "From the onset, once you think about Clark and Lois married and as parents, it really becomes a family show that happens to have Superman and Lois in it," Helbing explains. That little escapade inspires some heart-to-heart conversations about their priorities, careers, and raising two teenage boys – Jordan and Jonathan – who could ultimately inherit their father's Kryptonian abilities. An emergency forces the duo to travel back to Superman's hometown of Smallville.
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The series opens with Lois and Clark in Metropolis. Superman & Lois follows the titular couple as they embark on their greatest adventure to date: parenting. Lois and Clark in our show are very much Tami and Coach Taylor."
One of the analogs we use for this show is Friday Night Lights. They knocked it out of the park in all the Arrowverse episodes that they were in, but we are really diving into their relationship. There are subtle changes they make – not necessarily in performances, but in attitude. "But when I explained to them what we were trying to do and the tonal shift, they got on board pretty quickly. "It's an interesting dynamic, because Tyler and Bitsie had already played these characters in a handful of episodes and had worked on their interpretations of the characters," Helbing says.
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