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, […]
Supergirl’s Pilot and Cast are Terrific but Feel a Little Rushed
The best and worst thing about the pilot of CBS’ new series Supergirl is that it moves as fast as its lead character. Like a lot of genre TV pilots, Supergirl feels slightly rushed in its attempt to exposit everything as fast as possible to keep Joe Average interested and that’s frustrating. But it’s awesome for […]