Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Supergirl catchup, this time looking at the sixth episode of season 3, Midvale. Now this episode wasn’t exactly what I was expecting, and at time it didn’t even really feel like an episode of Supergirl, but I actually found myself really enjoying it. Rather than when Arrow flips in and out of flashbacks at such a rate that there is little point in having them, we got to remain in the past for much of the episode to enjoy a rather good standalone story. It was much lower stakes too than what the show normally does: no aliens and blasting stuff, instead relying more on detective work which made for a nice change of pace.

Although I said that the stakes here were different from the city-wide threats the Girl of Steel normally deals with, things took a surprisingly dark turn when that poor Kenny kid was murdered seemingly out of nowhere. I really didn’t see it coming. It seemed quite a drastic jump but it definitely helped to up the ante for the one off the villain. I didn’t catch on to it being the policeman until just before the reveal so the surprise definitely got me, and it worked better than just being the random teacher who was sleeping with a student. I agree that that relationship was wrong but with Kenny being 17 and Kara being 15, him going in for that kiss was pretty wrong too (well in the UK anyway, I don’t know about other countries laws).

Bravo to the actresses whop played young Kara and young Alex as they both really captured the essence of the character they were portraying. I enjoyed young Alex just as much as I did older Alex and it was slightly odd seeing that character in a typical high school setting. She doesn’t fit into one typical group and I thought the episode did a good job in showing that. I could have done without that douche of a jock as he was beyond irritating. I know he wasn’t supposed to be likeable but this guy was overly self-centred, even if I did reluctantly chuckle at the “they killed Kenny” South Park reference.

Overall this was one of my favourite episodes in a while of Supergirl. It takes a good bit of work to put out a quality stand-alone story without it being described as filler, but I think they pulled it off here. All in all I very much enjoyed it.

DD Rating: 9/10