Martin Carr reviews the twentieth episode of Supergirl season 2… Family ties, fatherly bonds, disillusioned heroes and surrogate parental figures all loom large and play an extensive role in this week’s Supergirl. Beyond the plotting of Rhea we get interlinking familial feelings with virtually every character, whereby James, Mon-El, Lena and Hank all experience their own […]

Martin Carr reviews the nineteenth episode of Supergirl season 2… Episodes which narratively pivot on a single life lesson however important live and die on the ability to engage. As the tagline suggests we have an episode which revolves around Alex Danvers, DEO officer, sister to Supergirl and bringer of relationship stability to one Maggie […]

Martin Carr reviews the seventeenth episode of Supergirl season 2… Who would have thought we might get little flashes of Shakespeare in amongst all those comic book shenanigans this week. What ‘Distant Sun’ shows us is that these writers and show runner are up on their classics and not afraid to steal from The Bard. […]

Martin Carr reviews the fourteenth episode of Supergirl season 2… And so we find ourselves coming full circle with the return of Dean Cain to Supergirl as Jeremiah Danvers. Slightly long in the tooth, a little more portly around the midriff, but nonetheless a face which relaunched Superman for me along with Teri Hatcher some […]

Martin Carr reviews the fifteenth episode of Supergirl season 2… With the alien registry in enemy hands and Jeremiah seemingly playing both sides, Supergirl turns into an episode of familial feud, divided allegiances and bloodthirsty beat downs. Nameless thugs in balaclavas, black van kidnappings and Luthor Corp pulling the strings equals a whole mess of […]