All September long, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2019-2020 season . Today we're taking an early look at Supergirl: Season 5. The new season will introduce multiple new threats to National City, as the sinister organization Leviathan makes its presence known and Lena Luthor finally comes to terms with the fact that her best friend is secretly Supergirl . Season 5 also introduces Supergirl's new costume and features the departure of Mehcad Brooks' James Olsen.

IGN has an exclusive new image from Supergirl's Season 5 premiere, "Event Horizon." Check it out below:

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In addition to showing Kara's sleek new suit in action, this image reveals that James will be returning to his role as Guardian for at least a little while before the character makes his exit.We spoke to showrunners Robert Rovner and Jessica Queller about what to expect from the new season, including what this image means for James. Rovner teased that the photo comes from the final action sequence in "Event Horizon," as Team Supergirl unites to confront the first villain of Season 5. The two confirmed James will resume his vigilante activities for now, but Brooks' impending departure makes this a sort of swan song for Guardian.With Season 5 chronicling the rise of Leviathan and a greater emphasis on the technological inter-connectivity of 21st Century life, the series will continue to draw heavily from current events and the general political climate."We always want the show to reflect back on the real world and tell stories that can relate to that," said Rovner. "We talk about this season as our Black Mirror season. We're really looking at the role of technology in our lives and how people can use technology to escape what's going on in their real lives instead of engaging with those aspects of their lives, and how our villains can take advantage of that."One of those villains will be the secretive organization Leviathan. The original incarnation of that group was portrayed as an international terrorist cell run by Talia al Ghul, with a new version currently fueling a DC Comics miniseries called Event Leviathan. Neither Rovner nor Queller were able to comment on whether we might see characters like Talia or Jason Todd appear in Supergirl, but Rovner did say the Arrowverse version of Leviathan draws inspiration from both comic book incarnations."We're really using canon as our inspiration for our version of Leviathan, although some elements will tie into the latest incarnation of them," said Rovner. "We're really kind of inventing them in a way that serves our Supergirl storyline.""Also this season, the relationship between Kara and Lena will take center stage," Queller teased, referencing Lex Luthor's parting gift to his sister in the Season 4 finale as he revealed Kara's secret identity. "The fallout from that betrayal is going to be intense. The central question is, will Kara and Lena be able to overcome that betrayal and repair their friendship?"Rovner confirmed this rift between Kara and Lena is something the writers have been building towards for a number of years, with Season 5 serving as the long-awaited payoff. "The scene where Lex tells her the truth at the end of Season 4, we've been planning that for a while and arcing towards that moment. Now we get to deal with the aftermath."Queller described betrayal as Lena's "Achilles heel," with every member of the Luthor family having betrayed Lena in some form or another over the years. "She has to put on this protective shell, and the last person she thought would betray her was Kara, and that really hurts more deeply than any of the others," said Queller. "We do a deep excavation of all the relationships in the past that went into forming Lena." One example given was Rahul Kohli's character Jack Spheer, who will be making a return appearance in Season 5.Finally, we asked how the upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover will impact the course of Season 5, both in the lead-up to the crossover and the aftermath."We're teeing up Crisis in our way, which is a little bit different from the way Arrow and The Flash are doing it," Rover told us. "But it's all interconnected, and the Monitor will be a part of that storytelling." He also pointed to the return of J'onn's brother in the Season 4 finale as a major plot thread leading into Crisis, calling it "a gauntlet for J'onn."As for how the series will be affected by the events of Crisis, Queller teased this crossover will change the status quo of Supergirl in a way previous crossovers haven't. "In general, it has more impact than our crossovers usually do. It filters into the rest of our season where normally the crossovers are standalone.""The world will be shaken up and there will be fallout, post-Crisis," hinted Rovner.Supergirl: Season 5 premieres on The CW on Sunday, October 6 at 9pm EST.

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