15 Reasons To Check Out ‘Smallville’ When It Hits Hulu

2: Paving The Way For Today’s DC TV Shows

Many will say that Arrow was the show to really set off the DC TV franchise that we are experiencing today and I will agree to that to a certain degree. But in many ways, Smallville should also be credited for paving the way for today’s DC TV shows. I’m not going to pretend that Smallville was without flaws, because no TV show or film is 100% perfect. But what this show succeeded with was showing that these iconic characters are also worth telling the stories of in episodic TV and not just the big screen. During Smallville’s run, there weren’t a lot of comic book shows because network executives hadn’t realized yet that this genre was worth investing in. Smallville may be somewhat of a different DC show to the ones we have today, because it was an origin story, the show still holds up to something like The Flash or Supergirl in its own ways. As I mentioned before, it was this show that really helped put Green Arrow on the map a bit better so if it wasn’t for this show, Arrow may not necessarily have happened.