{"id":10768,"date":"2016-02-23T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=10768"},"modified":"2016-03-01T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:57:44","slug":"review-supergirl-s1e14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/23\/review-supergirl-s1e14\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: ‘Supergirl’ S1 E14"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Supergirl<\/em> often tries to parallel its numerous storylines it squeezes into an episode by having an overlapping theme, this week\u2019s episode succeeded in ways it hadn\u2019t in the past. This week\u2019s theme was ethics, which is easy enough to relate to on a show concerned with journalism and crime fighting. But more than that, this week\u2019s episode of Supergirl<\/em> was so successful because of how interesting each of the storylines were \u2013 well, for the most part, but we\u2019ll talk about this later.<\/p>\n

Ethics gets brought up pretty early on when Cat assigns James to do some investigative reporting on her suspected kidnapping of Maxwell Lord, who has yet to comment on a scandal facing his company. Problem is, as James says, he knows where Lord is, being held illegally and against his will by the DEO. He implores Kara to do the right thing and let him go, but just like before she refuses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still a little fuzzy how this is still being allowed, and how not one of his various employees haven\u2019t reported him as missing yet. Oh, and for that matter, how Cat just randomly guessed the reason for his disappearance correctly before any of his employees realized it for themselves. But that\u2019s not the point of this storyline, the point is that Kara needs to learn for herself to do the right thing.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Kara, not even secondhand ethics lessons from Queen Mother Cat Grant can change her mind. No, the only thing that changes her mind is a run in with another alien with a fuzzy concept of what doing the right thing means.<\/p>\n

Supergirl<\/em>‘s\u00a0monster\u00a0this\u00a0week is the Master Jailer, who\u2019s been undetectably running around National City chopping off the heads of \u201cweird\u201d people, aka aliens. In his own brand of justice the Master Jailer is bringing judgment upon the escaped prisoners of Fort Rozz. Problem is, not all of the prisoners really deserve to be executed for their crimes \u2013 well actually none of them do, according to Henshaw and Kara, but really, how much longer do they have until all their jail cells fill up? Especially if they keep illegally holding people in them?<\/p>\n

But the professor who smuggled drugs to pay for one of his wives\u2019 medical bills and got caught on his first run (a tragic and well-known ethical dilemma) definitely does not deserve to face the guillotine. After some sloppy police work on Alex\u2019s part, Kara and the professor are finally rescued and Kara decides that not all crimes are black and white and sets the ex-con professor free.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not quite sure if it\u2019s this realization, or James\u2019 dreamy eyes that ultimately convince Kara to let Maxwell Lord go, but she begrudgingly does so at the end of the episode. While I\u2019m completely bored of Maxwell Lord, and could quite honestly care less if he spends the rest of his life in that cell where we never have to see him again, I’d say\u00a0that Kara did the right thing. Hopefully the promise of mutually assured destruction convinces Max to also do the right thing and keep his mouth shut.<\/p>\n

There were a few smaller conflicts with ethics and morality during this episode of Supergirl<\/em>. In one James finally decides that he can\u2019t lie to Lucy anymore about Kara\u2019s secret identity \u2013 if James thought Lucy used to be jealous of his and Superman\u2019s bromance, he\u2019s in for a rude awakening when he finally tells her about Kara.<\/p>\n

Another conflict arose between Alex and Hank\/J\u2019onn as they argued whether they should tell Kara the truth about who actually killed Astra. While I agree that telling Kara would cause her to lose Alex as well, it\u2019s really hard to see Hank react like a dad who\u2019s daughter just told him she hates him. But that\u2019s what makes morality so hard, having to decide which is the right thing to do when there is no right thing to do.<\/p>\n

But of course no episode of Supergirl<\/em> is complete without a few Cat Grant appearances, and Cat isn\u2019t the type to be relegated to a single scene in which she gives James advice as he drinks at work again (seriously, this isn\u2019t Mad Men<\/em>, James). As is to be expected Cat is still pissed at Kara, so she decides to get revenge by hiring a new assistant, which effectively makes Kara number two.<\/p>\n

Siobhan Smythe \u2013 whose name Cat can actually pronounce correctly and made for Kara\u2019s funniest line this episode \u2013 is not only here to get between Cat and Kara, but also plans to become the next Cat Grant. Supergirl<\/em> comic readers, however, will know that what she actually becomes is the villain Silver Banshee (I knew I didn\u2019t like her from the moment I wrote \u201cugh, die\u201d in my notes).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited that after rushing Livewire and Bizarro-Girl\u2019s introductions, they\u2019re actually giving time for this new villain to breathe and slowly evolve. I\u2019m also excited to see how they make Silver Banshee\u2019s origin story their own. Supergirl<\/em>\u2019s writers may not be perfect, but they sure do write a good super villain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Supergirl often tries to parallel its numerous storylines it squeezes into an episode by having an overlapping theme, this week\u2019s episode succeeded in ways it hadn\u2019t in the past. This week\u2019s theme was ethics, which is easy enough to relate to on a show concerned with journalism and crime fighting. But more than that,<\/p>\n

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