Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Supergirl catchup with the fourth episode of season 3, The Faithful. The season has had a promising (albeit slightly direction-less in terms of villain) start with a noticeable effort being put in to make Kara feel more alien than before. We found out more about Krypton and its culture as Supergirl went from super hero to a goddess, which was not a change she was happy with.

Having watched the Krypton season earlier in the year, I had heard of the Krypton Rao already. I don’t know if that made me enjoy the episode more as I just thought it was cool that I had seen in that show how people worship Rao and the influence that he has on people’s lives. Having that prior knowledge definitely added an extra layer to the story and aided my enjoyment of the episode. At first I thought it was odd how obsessed the leader was but they did ensure to highlight how his whole world had fell apart and as many do, turn to religion to help them. The one thing which was a tad unclear was whether he collected alien artefacts prior to finding that particular artefact or he found it by accident and then started to collect more.

Apart from that I really liked the whole concept and it did the whole cult trope without it becoming too in a sinister manner while still remaining firmly in the lighter parameters of the show. People were willing to put themselves in life-threatening danger to test their faith and I was worried that Kara was going to be unable to save someone which would further add to her guilt. Luckily that wasn’t the case, but it was poor Alex who ended up all emotionally distressed come the end of episode!

I really feel bad for Alex as she’s my favourite character in the show and it has been teased already this season. I just knew that the wedding wasn’t going to happen. I don’t see Maggie changing her mind so it looks like it is the beginning of the end for their relationship. It is a shame if the show loses Maggie as a result as I have started to enjoy her more, even if she did fall into the rather ignorant police role this episode. She said she couldn’t do anything until a law was broken but surely she could have just said that there have been complaints or just have a word with the leader as a precaution. I just think that she could have done something even though I got that she couldn’t just go around arresting people.

We finally got some mention of Reign who was name-dropped at the end of last season and she seems to have something to do with Sam. Whether the villain turns out to be Sam herself as she is seduced into using the powers she discovers she has for evil, or she is controlled by a higher power remains to be seen, but I really enjoyed this episode and the fact that Reign was finally mentioned.

DD Rating: 8/10