{"id":11016,"date":"2016-03-01T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2016-03-30T00:35:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T04:35:29","slug":"review-supergirl-s1e15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/03\/01\/review-supergirl-s1e15\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: ‘Supergirl’ S1 E15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have mixed feelings about this week\u2019s episode of Supergirl<\/em>. I mean, there was a Harry Potter reference, a glimpse at the Fortress of Solitude, and one of the dirtiest jokes of the show. But there was also so much going on and so much of it was the equivalent of Chris Rock\u2019s twentieth #OscarsSoWhite joke (ie: overplayed).<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s monster of the week was a knock-off Mystique \u2013 I challenge you to make a drinking game out of how many reviews make a similar joke. While Mystique, sorry, Indigo\u2019s presence was supposed to be some super hyped and exciting cameo of the former Smallville<\/em> Supergirl (Laura Vandervoort), her appearance was overshadowed by a mediocre storyline.<\/p>\n

Indigo herself is a pretty interesting villain. She travels through technology with basically zero laws of physics applying to her, and she has ties with Non as his ex-whatever. Most interestingly, Indigo is behind Kara\u2019s pod finally making it out of the Phantom Zone. With so many cool aspects to Indigo it\u2019s a shame that the writers decided to go with the much overdone \u201coh no a nuke is headed towards our city\u201d plot. Not to mention, Winn\u2019s oh so convenient virus was an even more predictable fix.<\/p>\n

Luckily Indigo, unlike the rest of the various monsters-of-the-week that visit National City, will be back. Hopefully she\u2019ll have a chance to redeem herself with an innovative threat. Due to her now forced involvement with Non,\u00a0we\u00a0might\u00a0be in luck.<\/p>\n

After last week\u2019s very successful episode about ethics, this week\u2019s Supergirl<\/em> episode felt a little redundant. This week\u2019s theme, honesty, piggybacked last week\u2019s by introducing an Ashley Madison-esque scandal into Kara\u2019s universe. It was an attempt to be relevant and edgy, but just like the other plot devices, it felt outdated.<\/p>\n

The hope of adding this storyline, however, was to finally get some closure to conflicts from previous episodes, namely James\u2019 lie to Lucy and Alex\u2019s to Kara. Both characters have been struggling with lying to the people they love for quite some time now, and the Ashley Madison scandal seemed to be the catalyst for them to finally tell the truth.<\/p>\n

While Kara had been mad at Hank for weeks now, as soon as Alex told her that she was actually the one that killed Astra, Kara hugged her sister. While this was a sweet family moment, especially once Kara held out her hand to Hank, it felt utterly unbelievable. I\u2019ve been mad at my own sister for worse, and like I said, Kara was so mad at Hank that she quit the DEO. Plus, Alex has been lying to her for weeks! If anything be mad at that. But Kara\u2019s a sweetheart, and she loves her sister, and it means that we don\u2019t have to spend weeks waiting for their eventual reconciliation.<\/p>\n

Instead we can spend the next few weeks waiting for James to finally do something about Kara. After Kara talks to Lucy about James, in which she spills the beans about how close they really are, Kara agrees to let James tell Lucy about Supergirl\u2019s secret identity. Unfortunately, Lucy beats him to the punch and breaks up with him instead. Hey, that\u2019s one way to get out of having to tell the truth, I guess.<\/p>\n

Lucy\u2019s ignorance has been bugging me for quite some time now, and it was time for her to realize how close Kara and James really are. Not to mention, it was time for James to finally quit lying to himself, something that Lucy definitely realized. I\u2019m interested to see how this plays out now that Winn\u2019s got his eyes on someone else, and Adam (can\u2019t forget about him) has disappeared without a mention in weeks.<\/p>\n

Back to Winn, real quick. To be honest, I\u2019m not a big fan of him and Siobhan together. Not only because I know that eventually she\u2019ll be taken out as that week\u2019s big bad, but also because after years of Winn pining away after Kara he needed someone nice. Not someone who\u2019s going to make out with him and then pretend men under six-feet don\u2019t exist again. Plus, it seemed to come out of nowhere, and felt a little forced. I hope it doesn\u2019t blow up in Winn\u2019s face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have mixed feelings about this week\u2019s episode of Supergirl. I mean, there was a Harry Potter reference, a glimpse at the Fortress of Solitude, and one of the dirtiest jokes of the show. But there was also so much going on and so much of it was the equivalent of Chris Rock\u2019s twentieth #OscarsSoWhite<\/p>\n

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