So even at this late date, CBS hasn’t announced whether or not Supergirl has been renewed. That’s deeply, deeply unfortunate. While the naysayer could just write it off as yet another unfortunate reminder of Hollywood’s obsession with superheroes, to those who actually watched the show and paid attention, it’s obvious this show is serving a […]
Supergirl Juggles “Myriad” Threads But Can’t Make Them All Stick
After taking a week off to allow us all to recover from the wonderfulness that was “World’s Finest,” Supergirl is back with its penultimate episode, “Myriad.” With its finale next week, the show has a lot to get through–or at least a lot to both resolve and tease out for a potential next season (the […]
Supergirl Reaches An Exciting New Status Quo With The “Manhunter”
Last week, Supergirl upended itself by not only having Kara go bad, nearly kill Cat Grant and turn all of National City against her as a result of Red Kryptonite. But the episode saved it’s biggest twist for last with Hank Henshaw revealing his true identity as J’onn J’onzz to help take Kara down. That’s obviously something […]
Supergirl Goes To Incredible Heights by “Falling.”
Thus far, Supergirl has soared by doubling down on the positive, inspirational qualities of its main character. That’s to be expected of a member of the Super-Family, of course: in the 1940s, not that long after Superman’s creation, there was a “Supermen of America” fan club. And we get more of that in this week’s […]
Supergirl and A Great Guest Director Show “Truth, Justice and the American Way”
This past Sunday, NBC aired a multi-hour tribute to James Burrows, co-creator of Cheers and iconic director of that show, Friends, Taxi and so many others. The special was mostly cast reunions (because how the heck else are you gonna make people tune into a tribute to a TV director) but its existence made one […]
Supergirl Sees Winn Put Away “Childish Things” And Become Interesting
Supergirl comes back after a week hiatus and it’s like the show was listening to my and others’ consistent complaints about Jeremy Jordan’s Winn (I know they weren’t, but it’s fun to imagine). Because this episode finally dispenses with the boring unrequited love business and sees Winn confess his feelings to Kara and deal with […]
Supergirl 1.05 and 1.06 Reviews
Supergirl 1.05 “How Does She Do It?” and 1.06 “Red Faced” So after being pushed back a week due to unfortunate similarities to real-life events, Supergirl’s fifth/actually-fourth episode, “How Does She Do It?” aired this week. Like I said last time, the shuffle actually rather worked in the show’s favor. The only real shuffled narrative […]
Supergirl Episode 1.04 “Livewire” Review
Episode 1.04 “Livewire” Before I talk about this week’s Supergirl episode, first a digression. As you may have heard by now, this episode, “Livewire,” is not the one that was originally supposed to air. The episode that was supposed to air—“How Does She Do it?” involving Supergirl foiling a bomb plot around National City—was pushed […]
Supergirl’s Third Episode Shines Bright
Episode 1.03 “Fight or Flight” Rather unexpectedly, this week’s Supergirl episode, “Fight or Flight,” picks up right where last week’s left off, with Supergirl flying Cat Grant (Calista Flockart)’s car to a secluded spot to conduct an interview on her terms. I kinda thought this episode would start out with the interview going to press […]
Supergirl’s Second Episode Tightens Things Up and Soars for It
Episode 1.02 “Stronger Together” Last week, I said that Supergirl avoided the pitfalls of most genre pilots by not slowly dragging out the world and getting to the good stuff right away but also that it felt too stuffed for one episode. We see a sort of walking back on that in this week’s episode, […]
