
- Starring
- Jack Quaid, Alice Lee, Ishmel Sahid
- Creator
- Jake Wyatt
- Rating
- TV-PG
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Superhero
- Release date
- July 6, 2023
- Where to watch
- Max
My Adventures with Superman is an animated series that follows a young Clark Kent as he builds his secret identity as Superman and explores his mysterious origins. Alongside him are Lois Lane, an ambitious reporter, and Jimmy Olsen, his best friend and photographer. Together, they navigate the challenges of investigative journalism while facing various villains in Metropolis. The series delves into themes of friendship, heroism, and the journey of self-discovery
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
One comment
Sweet Deals
January 19, 2025 at 9:48 pm
I was fully content to ignore this program and pretend it didn’t exist. But you put it up on “You Rate It”, so I decided to take one for the team. My instincts were right. I only forced myself to watch the first 10 episodes. Don’t make me have to go through that again for the second season.
Most of the characters featured on the show, including Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, are brown-washed. I don’t mean black-washed. I mean ethnically-ambiguous-brown-skin-is-the-majority-washed. I’m not shocked by that anymore. There was also a moment where Clark does a standard-issue “we need to learn to accept everyone even if they’re different” speech, followed immediately by the talking gorilla and his alien robot companion suddenly revealing that they were secretly a homosexual couple all along. That trick is so old hat I’m not shocked by that anymore, either. Add in several female bad guys who look and act like men and you’ve got all the basic perfunctory woke elements out of the way. The bulk of my complaints are not related to obvious displays of woke ideology, but because I’m an over-sensitive grump who hates everything.
In this series, Superman learns he has powers and has extraterrestrial origins from a young age, but gets so freaked out over it that he refuses to acknowledge it, and yet spends his adult years longing to know his origins which he had intentionally shunned. He constantly uses his powers to go out of his way to help people, and yet clumsily breaks things all the time with super strength he apparently never practiced learning how to control. He is freaked out over the fact that he might be an alien from another planet, and yet despite his intentional awkwardness he’s probably the only character in the main cast who can at least behave like a sincere human being.
Most Superman series have Clark Kent and Lois Lane as mature adults who act like professionals. In this series, Clark, Lois and Jimmy are college-age kids who have no experience doing real journalist work, but through a combination of blind ambition, unearned confidence and lucky breaks happen to be right about everything. The bad guys claim to be operating their technology smuggling operations in secret, and yet massive fights break out in public places with lots of witnesses around. The plot feels like the writers were making things up as they went along. Instead of taking the time to build a proper mythology, stories often rush from one action sequence to the next while little of interest actually advances because nobody can take anything seriously for longer than twenty seconds at a time. Clark and his crew win fights not because of strength, courage or cleverness, but because the solution automatically presents itself at the last minute. And there’s plenty of needless, inorganic drama that exists purely for the sake of drama, and speeches about the nature of goodness and/or hypocrisy that are spouted by people who are known hypocrites who don’t care about anyone’s feelings except their own.
This is more than just a comic book fantasy universe. It’s a universe populated by people who are awkward, hyperactive, and so blinded by their obsession with status, achievement and social media visibility that they wouldn’t know a good deed or a sincere human interaction if it hit them in the face. It’s like the people who created this cartoon were born watching cartoons on iPads, spend their formative preteen years staring at algorithmically-fed social media videos and obsessive fan communities and learned to regurgitate that language for popularity and validation, spent their teen years watching indoctrination videos depicting a cartoon world where woke ideal fantasies were already normal and learned to regurgitate that for popularity and validation, and never once spent an hour in the real world in their entire lives. These are the kids who were forced to watch hours of anti-bullying videos but have never once felt the sting of actually being bullied. These are the kids who feel alienated because they spend all their time staring at a screen chatting with other kids who spend all their time staring at screens and don’t know what normal human interaction even is. These are the kids who dream of how cool it would be to be a hero, but have never once had the opportunity to test their virtue by demonstrating a single act of kindness or courage that wasn’t rehearsed or coached. I know not every member of that generation is terminally-online, but unfortunately it seems that our new content-creator class is populated by the terminally-online, and the assumption is that because these people and their ideologies are the loudest and most visible, they keep reproducing that nonsense until everyone assumes that’s what reality is supposed to look like.
Parents, I beg of you, do NOT let your children grow up to become social media screen zombies. If your child is struggling socially and has difficultly interacting with others because he or she can’t find anyone with common interests to share, I still recommend going outside. Don’t force them into clubs or social gatherings they don’t want to join, but please, show them what the real world looks like. Teach them that human beings should treat each other with mutual respect and to recognize that other people have feelings just like they do. I say this as an adult who once was a sensitive, lonely, terminally-online child who was best friends with characters from cartoons I watched. Back then, they helped teach me how to be a better human being by watching them run hypothetical scenarios and allowing me to study how they behaved and reacted. Kids learn from example. Set a positive one.
…Excuse me. I’ve been emotionally poisoned and my soul needs to purge the sewage. Avoid this program and anything tainted by the CW. Watch Superman: The Animated Series instead.