The young Clark Kent isn’t, perhaps, all that young anymore, as Tom Welling and company enter their seventh season of “Smallville.” The season starts off with a bang, with Clark facing off against his evil “Bizarro” clone. Introduced early in the season is Clark’s cousin Kara (Laura Vandervoort), Supergirl in the comics.
After the first two episodes, the season turns uneven, with some of the losers including “Fierce,” in which Kara decides the best way to fit in is to don a bikini and enter the Miss Sweet Corn pageant, and “Action,” in which a superhero movie is filmed on the Kent farm. Still, there are some great Superman-related guest stars, with Dean Cain (“Lois and Clark”) as an immortal villain, Marc McClure as a Kryptonian scientist and Helen Slater (“Supergirl”) as Clark’s Kryptonian mother. James Marsters as Brainiac helps get the season back on track. Michael Rosenbaum’s Lex Luthor makes a full evil turn in what could be his final appearances on the series. “Smallville” remains frustratingly uneven, but the best episodes are still worth watching.
— Matthew Price
(From Friday’s The Oklahoman)