https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/m/a5e37a95-ec0b-3144-95bc-45bf1fa013c9/ss_watching-smallville-for-the.html

Here's what the show did incredibly well: For a CW (well, then it was the WB) budget and with early '00s technology, the special effects looked great. The show did a great job of establishing Anytown, USA (well, Smallville, Kansas), cornfields and all, when I know the series shot in Vancouver. You can really feel the intricacies of small-town high school life. There's sooooo much angst. Plus, the way it set up a "bad guy of the week" formula is straight out of today's DC TV handbook. And it starts with a potentially deadly car accident on a bridge, which is coincidentally echoed in The Vampire Diaries premiere (which aired eight years later). Don't be on your (admittedly ancient) cell phone and