Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Supergirl catchup with season 3 episode 5. After teasing us with the arrival of Reign as a worthy antagonist last episode, the show took a step back in my opinion as sleazy (and now murderous and insane) businessman Morgan Edge returned to National City to cause trouble for Supergirl and Lena Luthor. I love the actor who plays Edge but he is not the kind of villain the show needs to build a season around. His not so subtle misogynistic attitude means he is constantly and quite easily outwitted by any of the prominent female character he comes across. A low level villain who is going to be overpowered by Supergirl in every department. Lex Luthor he’s not!

They really vamped up the pure evil factor on Morgan Edge too but it was hard not to laugh at how consistently his end attempt was foiled. Every instruction he gave to that poor man he eventually shot in the face was undone by Supergirl or Lena. Why on earth had he not disabled the transmission before putting her on there. He could have at least done it remotely before she put the headset on and bloody sent out out a mayday signal! He really didn’t think this through. It seemed quite a drastic step for him to poison kids too. It was like they didn’t want to make it too extreme so he just limited it to one swimming pool, but how did it only effect the kids? And how popular was this swimming pool for people from all across the city to go to it? Surely there was more than one pool?

Lena didn’t have the best of times but I thought they balanced her logic with self-pity pretty well. What felt a tad forced was Sam being all “sisters” with Kara and Lena. She joined in on the bonding hug moment and it just felt like she hadn’t earned that yet. Even if she is Lena’s friend, Kara hasn’t really been all nicey-nicey this season. It was nice to get a bit more development regarding her powers and it is doing well to come off as tantalising drop-feeding rather than it just being dragged out for the sake of it. I am still intrigued how this will effect her as I presume that she is eventually going to become the villain.

The sad Alex moment we all knew was coming came as her and Maggie split up. I was half expecting Maggie to change her mind come the end of the episode but it was a wise decision to have her stick to her guns. It would have undermined the story for a sake of a happy ending and rendered the whole thing pointless. I hope this isn’t the end of Maggie though, even if it is the end of their relationship. Unfortunately this show doesn’t have the best record with not dropping side character at a moments notice like Lucy Lane and that businessman from season one who I can’t remember the name of. And let’s not forget Winn’s alien girlfriend who just vanished. Will Maggie join the list? I’ll just have to keep watching to find out.

DD Rating: 6.5/10