Supergirl is an American superhero action-adventure drama television series developed by Ali Adler, Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg (the latter two having previously created Arrow and The Flash) that originally aired on CBS and premiered on October 26, 2015. It is based on the DC Comics character Supergirl (Kara Zor-El), created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino, and stars Melissa Benoist in the title role. Supergirl is a costumed superheroine who is the biological cousin to Superman and one of the last surviving Kryptonians.
Recurring Cast
Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers / Supergirl
Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen
Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers
Jeremy Jordan as Winslow "Winn" Schott, Jr.
David Harewood as Hank Henshaw and J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter
Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant
Floriana Lima as Maggie Sawyer
Chris Wood as Mon-El
Premise
En route to Earth, Kara's spacecraft was diverted by a shock wave from Krypton's explosion and forced into the Phantom Zone, where it stayed for 24 years. During this period, time stopped for Kara so, when the spacecraft eventually escaped the Phantom Zone, she still appeared to be a 13-year-old girl. By the time the spacecraft crash landed on Earth, Kal-El had grown up and becomeSuperman. After helping her out of the craft, Superman took Kara to be adopted by his friends, the Danvers family. The main series begins more than a decade later when the now 24-year-old Kara is learning to embrace her powers after previously hiding them.[2]
Kara hid her powers for more than a decade, believing that Earth didn't need another hero. However, she has to reveal her powers to thwart an unexpected disaster, setting her on her own journey of heroism as National City's protector.[3] Kara discovers that hundreds of the criminals her mother prosecuted as a judge on Krypton are hiding on Earth, including her mother's twin sister Astra (also played by Benanti) and Astra's husband Non (Chris Vance), who seek to rule the world. After briefly becoming suspicious of the true agenda of her boss, Hank Henshaw (David Harewood), she and her adoptive sister, Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh), secretly discover that Henshaw is actually a benevolent alien refugee, J'onn J'onzz, who has resided on Earth for over fifty years after escaping a holocaust on his homeworld of Mars. J'onn infiltrated the DEO to reform the organization as well as to watch over both Alex and Kara in addition to guiding the latter in the use of her powers due to his experience with his own abilities. Kara is also being targeted by Earth's criminals as the result of her being related to Superman, and later on encounters an emerging community ofmetahumans and individuals from parallel universes. In the process, Kara accumulates her own rogues gallery who seeks to defeat and destroy her. She is aided by a few close friends and family who guard her secrets—most notably her cousin's longtime friend,James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks)—which also serves as a major plot in high tech mogul Maxwell Lord's (Peter Facinelli) scheme to expose Kara's identity.
Episode List
Episode 1 - "Pilot"
A young girl named Kara Zor-El is sent to Earth by her mother Alura to protect her cousin, Kal-El, as their planet, Krypton, destructs. The planet's explosion forces her ship off course and into the Phantom Zone for 24 years, before landing on Earth. Kal-El, now an adult and going by the name Superman, puts Kara in the care of the Danvers. Twelve years later, Kara reveals herself to the world when her adoptive sister's plane is sabotaged. Her sister, Alex, works at the Department of Extra-Normal Operations, under the leadership of Hank Henshaw, investigating alien activity. Kara learns that there are hundreds of aliens on the planet in hiding, most whom came from a prison that crashed on Earth, and that her mother was the one responsible for imprisoning them. Her actions attract the attention of Vartox (Owain Yeoman), and she is able to defeat him. New art director James Olsen reveals he was sent to look after her and presents Kara with a new cape. Vartox's superior is revealed to be Astra In-Ze, Alura's identical twin sister, who wants to conquer Earth.
Episode 2 - "Stronger Together"
In an effort to put a positive image on Supergirl in the wake of a serious mishap, Kara asks Winn and James to help her perfect her skills, while Hank and Alex put Kara through extensive physical training. Kara learns that an alien (Justice Leak) of the Hellgrammite species who escaped from Fort Rozz is on Earth searching for chlorine-based food. The DEO prepares an ambush for the Hellgrammite, but it escapes, kidnaps Alex, and takes her to Astra. Astra uses Alex as a trap for Kara. As Kara and Astra fight, Hank injures Astra with a Kryptonite knife and Alex kills the Hellgrammite. Learning that Kara has become more powerful than she had imagined and that humanity has a means of weakening Kryptonians, Astra muses that her "plans" may need to be postponed. Cat pressures James to get her an interview with Supergirl. James has reservations about being used as a go-between to his superpowered friends, while Kara is worried about being recognized. In the end, Kara agrees to the interview and prevents James from getting fired. It is also revealed that Hank might have a secret of his own when his eyes begin to glow red.
Episode 3 - "Fight or Flight"
During the interview with Cat, Supergirl accidentally reveals that she is Superman's cousin. Supergirl is later attacked by Reactron (Chris Browning), who seeks to kill her in order to get his revenge on Superman, but she manages to send him fleeing. He later goes to LORD Technology labs and kidnaps Maxwell Lord to get him to fix his suit. Kara later learns that a reactor meltdown Superman stopped in the past killed Reactron's wife, thus explaining the vendetta. She goes to Reactron's hideout and manages to save Maxwell Lord, only to get badly injured by Reactron afterwards, but Superman comes to save her. She gets mad at James, who called Superman for help, as she didn't want to rely on the Man of Steel. During a party Cat organized, Reactron breaks in to find Supergirl. While James distracts Reactron, Supergirl covers her hand in lead so that she can use it to safely remove the power core in Reactron's suit and defeat him. It is later revealed that James has an ex-fiancée, Lucy Lane (the younger sister of Lois Lane), who came to National City to patch up their relationship.
Episode 4 - "How Does She Do It?"
Cat Grant is out of town and Kara, James, and Winn struggle to take care of CatCo, Cat's son Carter, and a bomber targeting Maxwell Lord's company. The DEO, claiming to be the FBI, goes to Lord and attempts to convince him to postpone the bullet train's opening, but to no avail. On the opening night of Lord's new bullet train, Supergirl and the DEO must deal with two bomb threats simultaneously, one at the airport and one on the train. James and the DEO go to the airport, where Hank Henshaw secretly uses his hidden strength to deactivate the bomb. Supergirl goes to the train, on which Carter and the bomber are both riding. As Supergirl confronts the bomber, he claims that he is doing it for his daughter. The bomber requests Supergirl save the people on the train after he starts the timer. At DEO headquarters, Alex finds a fail-safe in the "dud" bomb, causing Supergirl to realize that Lord was the one behind the bomber's actions. Lord concedes that the threats could have been used to test Supergirl's skills.
Episode 5 - "Livewire"
After fighting an alien escapee, Kara meets Alex at the apartment to greet their mother, Eliza Danvers, for Thanksgiving, inviting Winn due to his lack of plans. CatCo's shock jock, Leslie Willis (Brit Morgan) is demoted by Cat to traffic reporting after a controversial bashing of Supergirl. During a severe thunderstorm, Supergirl tries to save Leslie, but lightning strikes them both, imbuing Leslie with electromagnetic powers. Leslie takes the name "Livewire" and tries to take revenge on Cat, but eventually Supergirl stops her and she is imprisoned at DEO. After Alex tells Eliza in a fit of rage at the dinner table that she's actually DEO, Eliza reveals to her daughters that, years ago, their father, Dr. Jeremiah Danvers, offered himself up to work for Hank Henshaw in exchange for Kara's safety and then died mysteriously, leading the girls to become suspicious of Henshaw.
Episode 6 - "Red Faced"
Anger issues surface for multiple characters, including Kara. Cat's mother, Katherine Grant, arrives. Lucy's father, Sam Lane (Glenn Morshower), arrives. The military's rogue combat android Red Tornado (Iddo Goldberg) challenges Kara. She and Alex eventually defeat both the robot and its creator T.O. Morrow (also portrayed by Goldberg), but the fight leaves the former weakened. It is discovered that Hank Henshaw was the last to see Jeremiah Danvers alive. At the end of the episode, Kara drops some glass and, when she picks it up, she starts bleeding.
Episode 7 - "Human for a Day"
The fight with Red Tornado leaves Kara helpless without her powers. During an earthquake, she attempts to help James and Winn, while the events allow the alien prisonerJemm (Charles Halford) to break out of his DEO cell and face off against Alex and Hank, who is later revealed to be a benevolent alien refugee, J'onn J'onzz. Hank explains to Alex that her father saved him from the real Henshaw, who tried to kill him and that he made him a promise to watch over his daughter. Kara is later attacked by Astra and her assistants.
Episode 8 - "Hostile Takeover"
Kara's battle against Astra is muddied when Astra explains how Alura captured her, but Kara refuses to believe her story until she discovers the truth that her mother was trying to keep from her. It is also revealed that Astra used her fight against Supergirl as part of a plan to take over Lord Technologies, led by her husband Non (Chris Vance) and his army of Kryptonians, prompting Alex and Hank to stop them. The Kryptonians are employing kryptonite-shielding armor to protect themselves from the substance, but Hank still manages to take out one after he revealed to him his true identity. Meanwhile Kara, James, Winn, and Lucy help Cat track down a hacker responsible for releasing Cat's e-mails, leading them to a CatCo executive who wants to oust Cat from the company. Cat reveals to Kara that she has a son that she has not seen in 24 years and later tells Kara that she knows that she is Supergirl. Kara then races over to Lord Technologies to face off against Non.
Episode 9 - "Blood Bonds"
Non defeats Supergirl and leaves with Hank/J'onn. Lord sends the DEO away from his facility, vowing to defend it himself, and returns to a secret experiment he is conducting. Non offers to trade Hank for Astra, but General Lane (placed in charge of the DEO during the emergency though Hank left Alex as acting director) refuses, tortures Astra for Non's location, and walks into a trap placed by Non. Kara is distraught over both this defeat and the fact that Cat will fire her unless she is convinced that Kara is not Supergirl. Kara goes to the DEO and talks with Astra who tells her that Alura believed her (correct) claim that Krypton was doomed, but sentenced her for her illegal methods while promising to work for her cause. Alex and Supergirl make the trade over Lane's objections and Astra orders Non to withdraw despite his numerical advantage. Later, J'onn uses his shape-shifting power to present Cat with Kara and Supergirl simultaneously, casting doubt on her initial deduction of their identities.
Episode 10 - "Childish Things"
When Winn learns that his father the Toyman (Henry Czerny) has escaped, Kara wants to help him find his father, but he's concerned it is his cross to bear. Alex convinces a reluctant Hank to use his powers to infiltrate Lord Technologies and find out what Maxwell is hiding. Cat hires Lucy as her general counsel, but James is unenthusiastic. Maxwell uses a hidden camera to spy on Kara and Alex, discovering that the two are sisters and learning Kara's secret identity. Also, Kara learns Winn is in love with her after he kisses her and runs off. Kara feels guilty for possibly ruining their friendship and tells Alex, who already knew how he felt.Episode 11 - "Strange Visitor From Another Planet"
Kara saves an anti-alien senator named Miranda Crane (Tawny Cypress) after a mysterious creature attacks only to discover that Hank knows of the creature and wants vengeance against it for killing his family and race back on Mars. The deception takes on a new twist when the alien poses as Senator Crane in order to bait Hank into revealing the DEO's Green Martian and Kara has to intervene before Hank goes through with his vengeance. Meanwhile, Kara helps Cat meet with her son Adam who later asks Kara out for a date. An identical Supergirl suddenly shows up in National City and is already the lead story on television after she tosses a dangling car off a bridge.
Episode 12 - "Bizarro"
Kara comes face-to-face with a doppelgänger of herself (Hope Lauren) who was brought to life by Maxwell through a combination of genetics from her DNA and a comatose victim. The double is mentally programmed to destroy Supergirl. Kara, on the other hand, believes that Maxwell is the one the DEO should go after when he reveals he knows her secret by sending Bizarro out to kill her while she is Kara. Alex and Hank come up with a plan to keep Maxwell from exposing Kara while countering Bizarro with a synthetic blue kryptonite. Meanwhile, Kara starts to get to know Adam, but is not sure whether to take the next step. A mysterious plant attacks Kara.
Episode 13 - "For the Girl Who Has Everything"
A mysterious plant known as the Black Mercy places Kara in a dreamlike state that has her imagining she is back on Krypton. The plant is part of a plot by Non, who is using Earth's technology to launch Myriad, which he and Astra are planning to use to wipe out humanity. Alex, Hank, Winn, Maxwell, and James race against time to save Kara, with Alex entering Kara's mind to pull Kara out and bring her back to reality. When Kara comes back, she seeks revenge on Non and stops him, but Astra, who wanted Kara unharmed and is upset with Non, is killed by Alex before she could kill Hank, who fought her off as the Martian Manhunter. Hank tells Kara that he killed Astra instead of Alex, who starts to feel guilty over whether she should tell Kara the truth. Non vows revenge on Kara in the wake of Astra's death.
Episode 14 - "Truth, Justice, and the American Way"
Kara, Alex, and J'onn track down an armored alien known as the Master Jailer (Jeff Branson), whom they discover was a prison guard at Fort Rozz. He has become a vigilante who kills the alien fugitives, including those convicted of non-violent crimes such as a professor sentenced for drug smuggling. Kara confronts the Master Jailer, but he takes her prisoner and plans to execute her for not joining him. Alex pinpoints his location and Kara is able to save the professor and defeat the Jailer. Cat assigns James and Lucy to investigate Maxwell Lord's disappearance. Tensions between James and Lucy develop after he reveals his knowledge of the DEO, prompting James to urge Kara to release Maxwell. Kara finds competition in Cat's new "first assistant" Siobhan Smythe (Italia Ricci), who vows to become the next Cat Grant. As Kara and Non pay their final respects to Astra, Non warns her that she will be next. Kara attempts to seek out the truth about Myriad and realizes she cannot forgive J'onn for killing her aunt.
Episode 15 - "Solitude"
A hacker steals information from a cheating website and asks Cat to release it. When Cat refuses, the hacker disrupts the city's infrastructure by interfering with its computer system. The hacker is revealed to be Indigo (Laura Vandervoort), who was in Fort Rozz and enabled Kara to escape the Phantom Zone. Her true plan is to destroy National City with a nuclear missile, but her attempt is foiled by Supergirl. Meanwhile, Kara is still mad at Hank and refuses to return to the DEO. Upon realizing they are stronger together, she eventually does, only to be told by Alex that it was she who killed her aunt.
Episode 16 - "Falling"
Supergirl inadvertently comes into contact with Red Kryptonite which destroys her inhibitions. It turns out that Maxwell created it in the hopes of stopping Non's next attack. Instead, it gradually turns Supergirl evil. The DEO is able to subdue her, but at the price of Hank revealing himself as the Martian Manhunter.
Episode 17 - "Manhunter"
While Kara is trying to win back National City's trust, Marine Colonel James Harper (Eddie McClintock) begins an investigation into the J'onn affair with Lucy, having re-enlisted into the Army at her previous rank of Major, as his legal assistant. After learning that Hank and Alex are on their way to Project Cadmus, Kara tells Lucy that she is Supergirl and convinces her to help rescue Hank and Alex. Hank learns that Jeremiah is still alive, so he and Alex go on the run to find him, but not before manipulating Harper into resigning from the Marines and appointing Lucy as the acting director of the DEO. Meanwhile, Siobhan tries to get revenge on Kara for getting her fired, but gets caught and discovers that she has the power to sonic scream.
Episode 18 - "Worlds Finest"
Siobhan discovers that the women in her family are cursed with the spirit of a banshee, which can only be quieted by killing whomever wronged them. Deciding to kill Kara, Siobhan frees Livewire from captivity at the DEO and suggests they team up. Siobhan—now calling herself Silver Banshee—and Livewire kidnap Cat and wreak havoc on National City Park. With the help of The Flash (Grant Gustin), a superhero from an alternate universe (see Arrowverse), Kara is able to subdue them and win back National City's trust. Later on, Kara discovers that everyone in National City has fallen under some kind of spell, revealed by Non to be the result of Myriad.
Episode 19 - "Myriad"
The Myriad effect has taken over National City and even Superman is under control, leaving Kara, Cat, and Maxwell as the only ones immune. Now, Kara must find a way to stop Non, but Maxwell is looking at destroying the Kryptonians with a bomb at the risk of killing humans. Cat objects and prompts Kara to find an alternative. The effect brings fugitives Alex and J'onn back before Alex can tell Eliza the truth about Jeremiah and Henshaw. When Indigo senses the two returning, she defeats J'onn, but takes Alex and places her under mind control as Non's payback for Astra's death.
Episode 20 - "Better Angels"
Kara fights with Alex, who is controlled by Non. When Alex is about to kill Kara with the same sword used to kill Astra, their mother pleads with her to stop, breaking Non's control over Alex. The team learns that hope is the key to stopping Myriad. Supergirl inspires the citizens of National City, waking them from the Myriad trance. However, Non is convinced by Indigo to kill all the humans on Earth by increasing Myriad's frequency. Back at the DEO, Max warns Kara that she might not survive a solo fight with Non and Indigo; J'onn later insists on helping her. Kara and J'onn confront Non and Indigo at Fort Rozz, which is powering Myriad. Kara defeats Non in a heat vision battle and J'onn rips Indigo's body apart. As Indigo dies, she gloats that Myriad cannot be shut down. Kara flies Fort Rozz into space, rendering Myriad harmless; Alex rescues her using Kara's pod. Afterward, J'onn is reinstated as the Director of the DEO and Cat gives Kara a promotion. While Kara celebrates at her house, another pod similar to the one in which Kara came to Earth crashes near National City. Kara opens the pod and is shocked by what is inside it.
The Verdict
Boy, did this show go through some ups and downs over the course of it’s premiere season. At it’s core, it’s just like the other shows from the CW based in the “Arrowverse”, even though ironically it doesn’t take place in that same universe. I’m sure that is going to change after the change from CBS to the CW for Season 2, but geez that made things awkward for this first season.
Most episodes followed a copy and paste dry routine with the villain of the week format that The Flash seems comfortable in. The similarities to The Flash doesn’t stop there as there’s the clichéd support group to help Kara/Supergirl out (initially the DEO, then her ragtag crew of close friends and co-workers, before finally a combination of both by the end of the season), the overly happy yet optimistic protagonist (Kara/Supergirl), and the motivational speeches and occasional moments to hit viewers right in their feelings.
That being said, if there’s anything this show does right despite anything negative I will bring up in this review it’s that this show embodies and symbolizes what it means to be a figure of hope like Supergirl better than Man of Steel and Batman vs. Superman have done to date. There are many moments throughout the course of this season where it wasn’t Kara’s awesome array of powers didn’t save the day, but it was her compassion, heart, and courageousness that won the day. The show focuses on the importance of her as a symbolic figure more than that focusing on just the powers or just the fact that she’s Superman’s cousin. In that aspect, Supergirl truly shines on her own in this show.
Speaking of negatives, can we talk about how bad the villains in this show looked in costume and how they were mishandled in the narrative?
One of my all-time favorite Superman: The Animated Series villains, Livewire was made into a random shock jock who was obsessed with Cat Grant while Silver Banshee was just disgruntled former Catco employee with issues. They completely wasted Red Tornado, then made Reactron and even Maxima (played by former WWE Diva Eve Torres) throwaway villains, despite their significance to Superman's lore. If I could slap the writers of this show, I would give them several backhands. The obsession with this seasons' main antagonist(s) being from Krypton screamed Superman II so much that it seemed like a minor inconvenience...
As much as I have frowned upon this show throughout this first season on social media yet continue to watch it just to see where it goes, I have to admit there are a few noteworthy episodes that made me glad I stuck around watching it.
Episode 7 - "Human for a Day" - One could point out of the importance that this show went out of its way to establish that Supergirl shares the same "new power" that was revealed in the comics continuity as what New 52 Superman has dubbed as the after-effects of using the Super Flare, but the biggest takeaway from this episode is the importance of Supergirl as a symbol - with or without her powers. What Kara is willing to do to drive that point home, even without her powers, is one of the best moments of this entire season.
Episode 11 - "Strange Visitor from Another Planet" - This entire episode was dedicated to exploring Manhunter's backstory and making the villain of the week feature one of his adversaries, notably a White Martian.
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| Kara and Barry were awesome together on this episode. |
The Absence of Superman
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| For those expecting to see Superman in this show, this is the best you get. I'm not even kidding. |
The lack of Superman ends up being the ultimate cop out as it's painfully obvious that CBS were too cheap to pay for the Superman license to go along with having a Supergirl narrative. Given how the DC Extended Universe is going right now, I'm pretty sure that that's a pretty pricey license to try to get a hold of anyway. They probably ran into the same situation as Gotham on the Fox Network, where you have a Batman-themed TV show without having Batman in it.
Fortunately, Superman will make his official debut in Season Two on the CW Network, played by Tyler Hoechlin. That is, if fans will be willing to give this show another go after it's move to the new network.
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| Not really crazy about this ordinary looking dude playing Supes after we've been all spoiled by Henry Cavill looking like he stepped off a comic book panel... |
The Importance of Martian Manhunter
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| Spoiler Alert: Hank Henshaw is Martian Manhunter in this series. |
Since they couldn't get Superman as a series regular, the writers went and did the next best thing - Martian Manhunter. J'onn isn't revealed until roughly a few episodes into the series, but his inclusion was huge for this show. He marks one of the few key pivotal members of the Justice League as part of this universe, but it's more important that Kara has someone to lean onto as support as another orphaned alien on this planet that isn't her home. Manhunter acts as the one person that Kara can identify with in terms of being a "gifted" individual in world that is strange to them, yet under their unique circumstances, has become their home that they must protect.
For those wondering... Kara's going to have even more people to identify with in the next season as Mon-El was the one in the pod that she found at the end of the Season One finale, which was confirmed a few months ago at Comic-Con.
My only complaint about Manhunter was that he looked like CGI-model ripped right out of Injustice: Gods Among Us and just conveniently placed into this show.
WTF is this shit?
Seriously... LOOK AT THIS SHIT.I'm not even going to sugar-coat it... the action sequences in this show were fucking awful. You're going to hear me say it again in my review of Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, but Jesus Christ, don't make these superhero TV dramas when your fight sequences look worse and more campy than Batman '66 and the original seasons of Power Rangers combined. Plus, you can tell they were trying too hard to sprinkle a little of Snyder's Man of Steel action sequences into this show subtly between the lines.
I'm begging for DC to find someone better to do the fight choreography for these TV shows. Even Power Rangers has better fight scenes than this in their newer seasons, so I know there has to be a way to get something better visually here.
Cat Grant Steals the Show... Literally
When this show first aired... or rather when the pilot leaked online on various outlets, I thought Cat Grant's character was going to be a mock J. Jonah Jameson as a lot of these DC Comics-based superhero TV dramas tend to borrow a lot of themes from Spider-Man to hit home with the teen viewing audience that they are made for, but over the course of this season, she really grew on me as the best character in this show. The fanboys and fangirls will say that Melissa Benoist makes the show, but it's more Calista Flockhart's performance as Cat Grant on how she's turned into a firm believer of Supergirl after being one of her hardest critics when she first made her debut.
Throughout the season, Cat Grant ironically plays the part of the audience watching this show. She starts off as Supergirl's biggest critic in terms of who she is and what she stands for, but by the end of the season, she is Supergirl's biggest supporter, even when she doesn't have faith in herself. It's hard to support this show, even for the most hardcore of fans when it has so many negatives going for it than positives, such as it's primetime television slot during the height of Monday nights' sports - football, basketball, and WWE, how it clearly has a lower budget than most of the other CW-produced DC Comics-based shows, and some mediocre writing that fails to hook in new viewers.
If it wasn't for Cat Grant's character growth throughout this season, I seriously doubt I would have gone out of my way to bother watching this show for the complete season.
Watch It or Don't Bother
If you're not crazy about the other CW-based DC Comics superhero TV dramas, then don't bother with this. You're not missing out on anything groundbreaking. If you're willing to endure through the entire season, there's some minor rewards in terms of the reveal of Martian Manhunter and the crossover team-up with Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash from his own series, but even those standout points are asking a lot from the casual viewer to invest into watching this season in its entirety.
Supergirl tries it's best to put it's best foot forward to pay homage to this iconic heroine being the first female DC Comics character to star in her own solo superhero TV drama, but ultimately ends up falling short a few steps from truly making a lasting impact. Hopefully, fans will be willing to come back for the next season to give it another chance after the creators have time to digest what they did well and how to improve for the better.
Supergirl tries it's best to put it's best foot forward to pay homage to this iconic heroine being the first female DC Comics character to star in her own solo superhero TV drama, but ultimately ends up falling short a few steps from truly making a lasting impact. Hopefully, fans will be willing to come back for the next season to give it another chance after the creators have time to digest what they did well and how to improve for the better.
