The popular American TV series Smallville, based on the Superman comics, tells the story of Clark Kent's youth and his rise as a superhero forced to live among humans. Young Clark fights with various manifestations of evil, falls in love, suffers - in general, he lives an almost ordinary human life, gradually growing up and wiser.
TV series history
Smallville is written and executive produced by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. The idea for the series belongs to Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel. The action takes place in the fictional American town of Smallville, located in the state of Kansas, but the shooting took place for the most part in Canada. For the role of Superman, the creators of the picture invited the young handsome and promising actor Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum, who brilliantly played the role of the main villain Lex Luthor.
Smallville is the longest comic-book science fiction series in television history.
The first episode (and trailer) of Smallville was released in 2001. Then it was watched by about 8, 4 million people. By 2006, the Americans were shown five seasons of 110 episodes. To date, ten seasons of the series have been filmed, the last of which aired in 2011. On this, its creators planned to end the victorious march of Clark Kent on TV screens, but the popularity of the series, numerous reviews and online audience voting did their job - the eleventh season will still be filmed: twenty-four new episodes will be shown this fall.
Smallville plot
1989 year. In the small provincial town of Smallville, a small child appears in the Kent family, whom the parents named Clark. Clark grows up, goes to school, but over time, the boy discovers in himself unusual abilities that are clearly not inherited. Clark's family in every possible way protects him from the disclosure of these abilities and tries to keep the true story of the child secret.
Smallville has received numerous Saturn nominations and has won two Best Sound Editing in a Series Emmy Awards.
At the same time, Clark's first youthful love appears - his classmate Lana Lang. The girl's parents were tragically killed in a terrible meteor shower. The teen also has a best friend, Lex, who secretly hatches plans for world domination. Subsequently, Clark and Lex become enemies - Lex repeatedly tries to destroy his former friend, but justice is on Superman's side, so all attempts by the villain end in failure. Will Lex still manage to defeat Clark and reign over the world - or will he remain the next defeated on Superman's path to purge the world of evil?
