‘My Adventures With Superman’ Season 3 Review: Time Is A Looped Circle

One must question why all IP media seemingly head in the direction of time travel (and the multiverse), as it has now become an extremely cliched route for every big franchise to tackle, especially when it comes to cinematic universes. Now, My Adventures With Superman wants in and Season 3 decides to address the future rather than the past, exploring it dynamically with flashforwards, relationship planning and preventing the apocalypse.

Season 3 of Adult Swim’s now-hit TV series follows Clark Kent and Lois Lane as they are faced with a new step in their relationship: what happens next? Signalling this, their indecision is met with the arrival of Jon Kent, Superboy. He hails from the future and warns of a dark and dangerous future at the hands of Cyborg Superman and Lex Luthor. Despite this overarching plot, My Adventures With Superman does not shift from its case-of-the-week format, with each episode playing a vital role in that overarching plot whilst Superman’s rogues gallery is formed by lesser-known characters such as Toymaker. Read the synopsis below:

Clark has truly become Superman and made peace with his Kryptonian origins – he’s ready to settle down! But Lois, who has finally become the Planet’s star reporter, is NOT. Jimmy has evolved from freelance photographer to celebrity journalist—but he’s still intimidated by the romantic attentions of the newly arrived Kara Zor‑El, who’s trying to find her place on Earth.

The highlight of My Adventures With Superman has always been that core relationship between Clark (Jack Quaid) and Lois (Alice Lee), and that is no different with this latest season. It is a pleasure watching these two characters interact and explore their dynamic across this season, and it is a really big focus, even when they are not on screen together. It is what I kept coming back to the show for, not the plot or the adorable Jimmy x Kara romance that is going on here, but the sheer chemistry between Quaid and Lee is what keeps this show afloat.

And afloat it stays, not for lack of trying to sink, though, with the creators focusing on yet another time travel story in a society where nothing BUT time travel stories exist. It does end up working at times, with the arrival of the future (Jon Kent, played by Darren Criss) forcing our leads to face theirs (their relationship), and it comes together on a really nice note in the finale. I find the future scenes here, one where Superman is dead, as the least interesting stuff of the show. These world-ending stakes that are created leave our character out entirely, and with that time focused on in the future its hard to be interested, as it completely ignores our favourite characters. It’s this plot work that makes this show flail in comparison to the character-focused sequences.

The final factor that pieces this season together is Clark finding himself as a person beyond his Kryptonian heritage. This culminates in Clark losing his powers and going on a spiritual quest to find them again. It is a very interesting take on something like this, visualising a lot of the spiritual elements in Clark wearing native Kryptonian garments and face paint going almost tribal. I thought this episode was a highlight of the season and very tactfully handles his restoration of power.

My Adventures With Superman Season 3 beats the sophomore slump but still doesn’t meet the standards set by the first season, largely due to a tired and overused narrative, held up by a strong and resonating set of characters.

My Adventures With Superman Season 3 stars Jack Quaid as Superman, Alice Lee as Lois Lane, Ishmel Sahid as Jimmy Olsen, Kiana Madeira as Supergirl, and Darren Criss as Jonathan Kent. The series debuted on Adult Swim on June 14th, 2026 and is now streaming on HBO Max.

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