Hello everyone and welcome to another Arrowverse catchup post, this time looking at Supergirl season 4 episode 12, Menagerie. Our “villain of the week was the titular “Menagerie” as a symbiotic snake alien took control over a thief. She was a fine enough one time villain but I feel little interest in seeing her again as the end of the episode teased. The link to Manchester doesn’t intrigue me that much either as I prefer him as a loner anyway. An unnecessary team-up won’t do him any favours.

I was much more happy to see Ben Lockwood return to our screens. He holds your attention in every scene he is in and really is a captivating villain. He manipulated his son into becoming the new temporary face of the Children of Liberty from behind bars and was met with adoration and cheers upon his release after nationwide protests and a pardon from the president. They have handled him so well so far and I hope that it continues.

I liked how they took the valentines day theme and used it to focus on a range of character relationships and not just the romantic ones. In saying that I am shipping Nia and Brainy so they better get together at some point. Kara to figure out what her new relationship with Alex actually looks like is heartbreaking as you just miss the two of them being able to work together. You don’t realise how careful Kara has to be now either as Alex is (rightly) now very protective of her sister. I am glad that Kara has at least found a positive out of all of this as Alex looks to be returning to her quest to start a family of her own. I don’t care for that random lady she met a the party but I am on board with the whole adoption thing.

DD Rating: 7.5/10