Smallville (TV Series) Perry (2003) User Reviews

Meeting the Future Boss

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 4 May 2006]

When a huge comet collides on the surface of the sun, the surge provokes changes in the abilities of Clark Kent. While running to meet Pete Ross and Lana Lang in the Talon, Clark suddenly stops on the road, and the drunken driver journalist Perry White (Michael McKean) crashes his car against a pole trying to avoid him. Perry blackmails Jonathan Kent, requesting Clark to support him for a couple of days in Smallville. Perry is writing a matter about the meteor shower and becomes interested in the abilities of Clark. Meanwhile, the upset Lex Luthor has psychoanalysis due to imposition of the insurance company to Luthor Corp.

In "Perry", Clark Kent has an interesting meeting with his future Daily Planet boss Perry White. The episode is well constructed and is the best of this Third Season up to this moment. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "O Reporter" ("The Reporter")

Don't call him Chief

[Rcwilkinson123 · 9/10 · 13 November 2007]

Clark Kent meets a very important figure in the Superman story in Perry White, "future" editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, in this episode.

Where in the Superman comics and movies, Perry White is an upstanding fellow who is the head of one of the largest newspaper chains in the country, in this episode Perry is at a low point in his journalism career. After doing research trying to dig up major dirt on Lionel Luthor's past, Lionel causes Perry's career to plummet, causing Perry to lose his job and can only find a new one with X-Styles, a cable TV station. Looking to springboard his career again, Perry travels to Smallville with a sense that a major story has to come out of the town that was hit by distant meteors.

There, he witnesses Clark do amazing acts of super-humanity. Good thing he is a drunkard, due to his current predicament in life, or else his hunches about Clark could seem a lot more accurate. It is only at episodes' end, when Perry is convinced to prove Clark's abilities once and for all, that his theory is changed.

This episode was great because it is fun to see a key character from all eras of "Superman" come to life on screen in a way he had never been seen before. It is a big adjustment to see Perry in a different light, but gives the character more interesting backstory in result.