10 Harsh Realities Of Rewatching Smallville, 12 Years After It Ended

There are some harsh realities to rewatching Smallville 12 years after the show’s series finale. Smallville is the Superman prequel series that debuted in 2001 on The WB, which later became The CW. The series starred Tom Welling as Clark Kent, chronicling his adventures as a high school student in Smallville who discovers that he has powers, and with them comes the knowledge of his past on the destroyed planet Krypton. Clark must come to terms with his dual life as a powerful Kryptonian and as a small-town teen.