Episode Review: 1x05 "How Does She Do It?"

By Corinne McCreery

This episode starts out AMAZING. I’ve praised the special effects in this show many times already, but good lord. I’m in awe of how incredible that opening flight scene is. It’s just beautiful to watch.

With the Siegel Award reference, we finally get the last real Easter Egg I expect right off the bat in the show. Though I think there will probably be a shout out to Peter David at some point, and I’m crossing my fingers for nods to Jim Mooney, Paul Kupperberg, and Carmine Infantino at some point too.

Some people online don’t like that Cat is being, well catty, to Lois Lane, especially since Lois isn’t there to defend herself. They see it as a denigration of one of DC’s premiere female characters, and pointless. I think it serves to sharpen Cat’s character. She’s not nice, and definitely wouldn’t be to a competitor. I don’t think that the jabs in the show are meant as mean spirited towards the character from the show, but from a character within it.

1x05: "How Does She Do It?"

This week, Frank & Tim have so many questions to address. What is Maxwell Lord's agenda? Did we get a hint at Hank Henshaw's true identity? All that and more on this week's podcast!

And be sure to check out our exclusive interview with David Harewood for even more answers about Hank Henshaw!

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Bonus: David Harewood Exclusive Interview

We’ve got a special surprise for you. Tim & Frank are joined today by Hank Henshaw himself: David Harewood. He hints at the future of his character and gushes about his passion for comics and how important it is for him to work on a show as meaningful as Supergirl. Our sincere thanks to David for an excellent chat. Enjoy!

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Episode Review: 1x04 "Livewire"

By Corinne McCreery

I’ll open this week in saying that while still a fantastic episode, this is the first one that didn’t outshine the previous week’s for me. I still loved it, but I had some major hangups about certain parts of it. None of those problems came from what seems to be the controversial thing about the episode when I’m talking to others in my circles though. I have friends that don’t think they should have swapped episode order. That people should be ‘strong enough to separate reality from make believe.” I disagree with that sentiment and fully stand behind CBS’s decision to air the episodes out of order. I think it was both a respectful decision and one that makes a lot of business sense. The other options were to either air the originally intended episode, and possibly hurt and alienate some viewers into never coming back; or to not air any episode, which for a show that had been slipping in the ratings would have probably been a death knell. I’m glad they did what they did, and I think it shows the compassion that the show excels at. The episode still flowed well, the only continuity problem was how quickly it seemed that James and Lucy reconciled, but knowing the episodes were out of order made it easy for me to just assume the reconciliation happened in the one we missed.

1x04: "Livewire"

Live and wired from CatCo plaza, Frank and Tim are here to discuss "Livewire!" Supergirl faces off against a new villain while dealing with family drama. Plus, listener emails and Tim's crackpot theory.

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Episode Review: 1x03 "Fight or Flight"

By Corinne McCreery

This show continues to amaze me. While “Fight or Flight” continues the trend of episodes that I loved more than the last, I was a little worried about this episode coming in, for two reasons.

The first is that Reactron is my favorite Supergirl villain, due mostly to Sterling Gates’s amazing run on the Supergirl comic in which he made her Kara’s archenemy, and with a very personal backstory to it. I was annoyed when the show announced that he was going to be introduced as a former Superman villain, because Reactron has always been a Supergirl villain first. Despite that reservation, I was really hyped for this episode, because I never, ever thought I’d see Reactron on screen. So a little bit of my worry was that I was overhyping it. 

The second reason was that I saw a spoiler for something that happened in this episode, and it seemed to point at the episode being a big let down episode. I saw that Superman was going to appear, and saw the clip of him saving Supergirl, and that worried me profusely. More on that scene in a bit.

1x03: "Fight or Flight"

Tim and Frank enjoy a cocktail during this week's chat, which leads to some interesting discussion. Why ARE Hank Henshaw's eyes red? Plus, Cat gets a scoop and Kara fights her greatest enemy yet with a little help from a certain someone.

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Episode Review: 1x02 "Stronger Together"

By Corinne McCreery

So I loved the pilot episode, and watched it over twenty times between the time it leaked to the internet, and the time in which we finally got something new for me to watch. At this point “Stronger Together” has been out for three days. I’ve watched it a dozen times. Somehow, I like this episode even more than the pilot, and that makes me extremely happy. I just hope that each episode continues this trend. 



Melissa continues to shine in the role. She’s just such a phenomenal actress and embodies everything I love about the character, both on screen and off. Just like last week, it’s the little things that make me believe in her the most. In this episode it was the nose crunching when Cat suggested that Supergirl might be Superman’s girlfriend. It was the look of, “Oh god, why did I do this?” when she rescued “Fluffy.” It was a moment I’ll talk about in more detail later that happened at the end of the episode.

Episode Review: 1x01 "Pilot"

By Corinne McCreery

The Supergirl pilot has finally aired, and I’m still not over it. I’ll give full disclosure on the subject right now: I’m probably the biggest fan of Kara Zor-El you will ever meet. I own her first and second appearances, every issue of every solo series she’s ever had, and a good chunk of her key appearances in Action Comics and Adventure Comics from the 1960s and 1970s. I have a tattoo of George Perez’s Supergirl from Crisis on Infinite Earths tattooed on my leg, and plans for at least three more Supergirl centric tattoos. She’s my favorite character in all of comics, and one that I have looked to over and over again for guidance in tough times of my life.

I will say that I was leery coming in to this show. When the show was announced, I was no longer reading the comics, as the version of Supergirl in comics at the time was far from the version that I hold such a deep connection to. She didn’t represent the hope, optimism and compassion that Kara always had for me. She had been turned into an angry teenager, something she’d been before but never for so long, and lost the things that made her unique and, in my opinion, a better character than her cousin. I was worried that that would be the version we would get. Then, I was still leery when Melissa Benoist was cast, mostly because, not being a fan of Glee, I had no exposure to her. Even still, when the costume shots were released. The suit was what I wanted, very close to the classic look from the first movie and many years of comics, but the colors in those first photos were washed out and it looked like the show might be going in a darker direction.

Then we got the six minute trailer. I was just getting off work when it hit, and my friends started blowing up my phone wondering what I thought. I watched it on my tiny little phone, in public, at the bus stop. Not caring about the odd looks I was getting from the people around me, I was immersed in a trailer for a show I had waited nearly two decades for, since discovering the character. The trailer brought me to tears, along with eliciting inhuman squeals of happiness and literal jumping with joy.  The show won me over then and there. 



1x02: "Stronger Together"

Just like Kara and her friends, Frank and Tim are stronger together. This week they cover listener emails and a recap of the second Supergirl episode, "Stronger Together."

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