Expect The Man of Steel to Don His Famous Red Cape in Supergirl Season 2

Kara Zor-El's, otherwise known as Kara Danvers, otherwise known as Supergirl has been communicating a lot with her cousin - known as Kal El/Clark Kent/Superman - and we've only seen silhouettes of him through season one of Supergirl. 

In an interview with Variety, executive producer, Andrew Kreisberg said "Greg [Berlanti], Ali [Adler] and I are beyond thrilled to welcome Clark Kent and his slightly-more-famous alter ego to the world of Supergirl."

But will he be in the entirety of season two? 

"Superman will be appearing in the first two episodes of the new season and we cannot wait to see who dons the red cape!" Kreisberg said.

The role of Clark Kent for Supergirl season two could be anyone. Fans wanted Henry Cavill but you all know that isn't going to happen, fans also wanted Tom Welling, who played Kent on Smallville. Slight possibility but there's no way from telling who it's going to be.

Supergirl season one is currently airing on Sky1on Fridays at 8pm

Supergirl/The Flash Crossover Coming Soon!

Do you remember when all of those rumours swirling around the TV blogosphere were speculating that there would be a Supergirl and The Flash crossover? Well, they were right.

Kara and Barry will unite and help save National City.

With their being so many crossovers in the DC TV universe, hopefully this won't confuse things or make it even harder to keep up with everything that is happening. Hopefully it will prove that the DC universe possibilities are endless and hopefully, it will work.

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Supergirl and The Flash crossover will air March 28th on CBS and will air in the UK on Sky1 later on in the year.

Supergirl S1E3 Review

After the rocky first episode of Supergirl, the show has proven that it can work. After the first three episode, it doesn't fail to impress.

Yes, we have the cliché villain-of-the-week that superhero shows tend to have, but it works - just like it does with The Flash or Arrow (do we call the show The Green Arrow now?)

Melissa Benoist smashes the role of Kara Danvers/Kara Zor-El/Supergirl and she continues to perform brilliantly, bringing to the screen the many sides of the character.

In this episode, we see the first appearance of Superman. We don't see his face but he's there, saving Supergirl. Was it needed? You begin to think that it wasn't, but Clark Kent being there set the foundations of Kara wanting to be able to save people without her cousin rushing in to save the day.

Contradictory to what she said in the last episode about how she didn't want to be like her cousin? How she didn't want to do it alone? That she wanted to surround herself with her friends and family? Maybe. But it shows how strong she is and how she's willing to prove to the world that she's just as capable as Superman.

The villain-of-the-week was Reactron (Chris Browning). He's known to affiliate himself with the Suicide Squad so is that a crossover that we could see happen? Probably not. He had too small of a role in this episode to have a long-lasting impact on whether he could come back. There's a chance that he will stay away from the show and that we won't see him again.

But Reactron - even when trying to destroy Supergirl (because Superman indirectly killed Reactron's wife) - also laid down the foundations of boosting Supergirl's confidence. She defeats him and after finding out that Clark Kent didn't manage to, it makes her feel like that maybe she can pull off being Supergirl and save the day like her cousin can.

Chyler Leigh yet again brought the brilliant role of Alex Danvers to life. Alex seems to be a very strong, very likeable character. She's strong willed, strong minded and physically strong. She's not scared to stand up to her boss, Hank Henshaw (David Harewood) and she like to take her little sister, Kara under her wing and try and hold her hand through being Supergirl. We could have seen Alex in action a bit more, or train Kara to fight - that scene was awesome in the second episode - or even have a bit more involvement in the episode, but her scenes seem to slip from memory, her scenes in this episode didn't stand out and that's a shame.

Another thing that was good in this episode was that Henshaw's identity wasn't revealed. It would have been too soon if they did, but yet again we saw his eyes glow red for a second which left us keep asking the questions "who and what is he?" Henshaw's character was also under-used the episode, all he was used for was to help Kara with Reactron and to show that he was starting to accept Kara's help with the DEO.

What's with this weird love-triangle going on with Kara, James (Mechad Brooks) and Winn (Jeremy Jordan)? Winn seems like he's just a character to use up the extra screen time. Is there a purpose to his character? Or is he just used to add a relationship/love/friend zone character to the show? He's a good guy, he's a nice character but Winn Schott is known as Toyman in the comics. Toyman is British and has a very dark history of murder and prison and fighting Superman. This can't be the same Winn Schott that we're seeing in the show can it? Somehow, there's a big chance that the writers use the comic book character in the show. Unless Supergirl "friend-zoning" him will turn him evil?

This episode was filled with a bit too much unnecessary romance (also a random dance/flirty scene involving Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart) and Maxwell Lord (Peter Facinelli) which wasn't needed) and under-using a couple of characters but in general, it was a very good episode. It worked well using Superman to it's advantage without making the whole episode about him directly and it kept on building the character of Kara into the strong woman the audience knows that she will become.

Supergirl S1E2 Review

This episode is better written. It's a better story line. It takes things more slow and that's what Supergirl needed.

Episode two revolves around Kara Danvers' (Melissa Benoist) boss -  Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart) - trying to get an exclusive interview with Supergirl and using James Olson's (Mechad Brooks) connection to Superman to get it.

After the first episode being to action-packed and fast-moving, Cat Grant's advice to Kara couldn't be more perfectly timed. She says that if she was speaking to Supergirl, she'd tell her to start with small acts of kindness and then work her way up. So Kara did exactly that and the media presented her as the hero of National City.

There was also a nice balance between the air time of the characters. There was a bit of everything and it worked really well. We got to see the bond between Danvers and Olson grow stronger, Kara's sister - Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh) - acted like a maternal figure for Kara and tried to help her from stronger and fight better and Hank Henshaw (David Harewood) started to accept Kara into the DEO.

Viewers also had the villain of the week, which didn't play a major part in the episode but it was a good addition. Kara had to deal with a Hellgrammite and her Aunt Astra (Laura Benanti) - who just to clarify is Kara's Mother's twin sister - coming back.

Alex Danvers is probably one of the best characters in the show so far. She's awesome. All of Kara's life, Alex has been trying to protect her by working as an agent with the DEO and now she's training her. Plus, Alex managed to kill the Hellgrammite whilst she was badly injured. She's officially awesome.

Who - or what - is Hank? At the end, we see Hank walk away from Alex and for a moment his eyes glow red. This was a brilliant episode, it was really well done with some amazing special effects and another fantastic cliffhanger. I applaud you, Supergirl.

Supergirl S1E1 Review

Melissa Benoist (Glee) is Kara Zor-El. She is Kara Danvers. She is Supergirl. And she knows that she is destined for great things after being sent from Krypton to Earth to look after her cousin Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman.

In the pilot episode, we see the beginning of Kara Zor-El's journey to Earth - which is critical to explain to viewers who don't know her back story - and her starting a new life with the Danver family.

The episode then jumps to when she is a grown woman of twenty-four years of age - known as Kara - working in a media centre fetching coffee and running errands for her boss, Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart) -who is maybe trying too hard to be Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada? She's fresh faced, dopey and cute; she's very similar to her role in Glee as Marley Rose. Very similar. But she's fun to watch and Benoist brings the character of Supergirl to life with her charm and kookiness. 

The show allows Danvers to be a hero in her own right after she starts to feel like she's living in her cousin's shadow. She wants to finally start doing the things that she came to Earth to do; to start helping people. Kara gets the chance to do that when her sister - Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh) - is on a plane that's about to crash who then goes on to fly up to the plane and land it in the water, saving everyone. From then on, she's branded as Supergirl by the media.

Another brilliant thing about this episode is the introduction of the character James Olson (Mechad Brooks). His on screen chemistry with Kara is electric and acts as a personal connection for her to her cousin which gives her a sense of comfort and that she knows that she can trust him.

The only problem with this pilot episode is that it was too packed, too much happened, it was too fast-paced that it's hard to keep up. One moment she's working for her boss in the newsroom, the next she's telling her trusty co-worker (yet again, we see the boring "friend zone" moment happen) that she's the girl on the news and shows him that she can fly. 

Too many people find out who she is in the first episode and then there's the villain. We meet Vartox (Owain Yeoman) and then we lose Vartox in the same episode. This sets up the whole show and gives viewers the feeling that it's going to be one of those "different-villain-a-week shows". One second, he's hell-bent on destroying Kara due to the fact that her (real) mother put him in Krypton's jail and the next he killed himself when Kara destroyed his axe. He just killed himself. Like that. Because he didn't want to disappoint his boss.

Who by the way, looks exactly like Kara's (real) mother, but she calls Kara her niece. So either, her mother was actually her aunt all along, or it's the same woman playing different roles, or they're twins, or it;s two different women who look exactly alike. 

The first episode was really good. It was upbeat, Benoist makes a brilliant Supergirl, but too much happened. The writers should have taken more time to lay the characters' foundations first rather than jump to her saving a plane and then destroying a villain in the first episode. Hopefully episode two will be a bit slower and we'll see some character development. 

Supergirl and The Flash Crossover Rumoured!

We all love The Flash and we all love Supergirl right? Crossovers are sort of becoming a thing for the small screen of the DC universe, The Flash and Arrow are pretty much always meeting up with each other now that they're partners.

It's now a rumour that Supergirl and The Flash may have a crossover of their own if CBS could get the amount of episodes up.

And that, they certainly have.

Today it was announced that Supergirl would be getting the full twenty episodes for it's first season, adding an extra seven fantastic episodes to our screens.

So does that mean that we can get our crossover now please?