B-Season 3Supergirl’s third season finale cuts its losses and looks to the futureCaroline Siede6/18/18 11:55pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTo cap off a season that has grown increasingly rocky along the way, Supergirl’s third season finale mostly decides to…
C+Season 3Sci-fi and fantasy make awkward bedfellows in Supergirl’s penultimate episodeCaroline Siede6/11/18 11:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink Sci-fi and fantasy are both difficult genres to get right. Genre worldbuilding doesn’t always need…
C-Season 3Supergirl’s 3rd season has officially gone off the railsCaroline Siede6/04/18 11:35pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink Let me start by saying this: I don’t think any of the plot points in “Not Kansas” are unworkable.…
B-Season 3Supergirl discovers a game-changing surprise halfway across the universeCaroline Siede5/28/18 11:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink I’ve never had the experience of being sent off my exploding home planet by my parents, spending…
BSeason 3Actually, Supergirl’s about ethics in superhero secret identitiesCaroline Siede5/21/18 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink It’s almost hard to remember now, but back in Supergirl’s first season we used to spend almost as…
B+Season 3Let the Reign fall down, Supergirl is coming cleanCaroline Siede5/14/18 10:20pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe tricky thing about reviewing a show like Supergirl in its third season is that it can be hard to come up with new…
BSeason 3Supergirl unleashes an unholy trinity Caroline Siede5/07/18 11:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“We’re in the endgame now.” That’s a line that’s knowingly delivered in the latter half of the superhero extravaganza …
B-Season 3Supergirl finally introduces its third WorldkillerCaroline Siede4/30/18 10:25pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink After a standalone story about Winn’s mom and an episode that mostly felt like it was stalling for…
CSeason 3Supergirl stretches for time with cape tricks and mind tricksCaroline Siede4/23/18 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkDenial: It’s not just a river in Egypt, it’s also a plot device that allows Supergirl to stretch 10 minutes of story…
BSeason 3Supergirl returns from hiatus to give us Laurie Metcalf yelling at a flying monkeyCaroline Siede4/16/18 8:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBetween the big Arrowverse crossover episode, its normal winter hiatus, and its more abnormal late winter hiatus,…
B-Season 3A talky Supergirl doesn’t actually have much to sayCaroline Siede2/05/18 11:10pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSupergirl’s third season has had its ups and downs, but so far its weaker episodes have been the ones that seemed…
B-Season 3A scattered Supergirl checks in on all the storylines it forgot aboutCaroline Siede1/29/18 10:45pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI have to imagine the pitch meeting for “For Good” involved the writers sitting in a room, trying to remember all the…
BSeason 3An impressively female-centric Supergirl goes where no man has gone beforeCaroline Siede1/22/18 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkGiven that it features multiple characters heading off into space like it’s the most casual thing in the world, “Fort…
B+Season 3Supergirl’s return is stylish, confident, and full of new superheroesCaroline Siede1/15/18 8:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s always a joy to watch a TV show hit its stride and it really feels like Supergirl is doing that in its third…
BSeason 3Christmas comes early as Supergirl’s mid-season finale delivers a great final fightCaroline Siede12/04/17 10:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs a rule, Supergirl mid-season finales tend not to be my favorite thing in the world. They have to touch on the…
B+Season 3Supergirl hops Earths, punches Nazis as The CW’s crossover extravaganza beginsCaroline Siede11/27/17 8:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTV crossovers are strange beasts. At their best, they recapture the childlike joy of throwing all your toys into the…
BSeason 3Mon-El’s return to Supergirl comes with a timey wimey twistCaroline Siede11/20/17 10:35pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Wake Up” feels different than your average episode of Supergirl. There’s very little in the way of action and there…
C+Season 3A flashback-heavy Supergirl heads back to Riverdale… er, MidvaleCaroline Siede11/13/17 10:35pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Midvale” plays like a backdoor pilot for a series about the teenage Danvers sisters solving murder mysteries in…
BSeason 3Supergirl says goodbye to a beloved coupleCaroline Siede11/06/17 10:35pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOne of the trickiest things TV shows have to deal with is real-life scheduling issues. Whether an actor is shooting a…
B+Season 3Whoops, Supergirl accidentally started a cultCaroline Siede10/30/17 11:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor all its strengths, Supergirl isn’t usually a show that asks big philosophical questions. So partway through…
