Martin Carr reviews the season three premiere of Supergirl… This opener has a familiarity, hard edge and darkness which instantly brings it to life. Following directly on from Mon-El’s departure Kara is isolating herself off from family and friends, focusing solely on Supergirl. After the Daxamite destruction which crowned season two National City tycoons are […]

Martin Carr reviews Supergirl’s season 2 finale… Silver Kryptonite is a bitch. Turns up at the most inconvenient time to turn your best friend bad, best cousin evil and then make said person into an arse kicking force of nature. So it begins with our grandstanding, all singing, all dancing finale to season two of […]

Martin Carr reviews the twenty-first episode of Supergirl season 2… Much touted through trailers and articles in the run up to ‘Resist’ has been the comeback of Cat Grant, news mogul, mentor and queen bee to CATCO worldwide media. With the return of a never more comfortable Flockhart we also get Lynda ‘Wonder Woman’ Carter […]

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 […]

Martin Carr reviews the sixteenth episode of Supergirl season 2… Back after a two week hiatus Supergirl combines art theft, intergalactic family feuds and lovelorn relationship issues in grand style. Guest starring Teri (Lois Lane) Hatcher as one part of the Daxam royal entourage, we get a non-threatening Airforce One frigate parked within Earth’s atmosphere […]

Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Supergirl season 2… If Supergirl is about anything this week you would say groundwork. Lillian and Lena Luthor are front and centre dominating things with a back and forth mother daughter double team. Everyone else is present and correct and we get burgeoning relationships, introductions of couples which […]