Hello everyone and welcome back after quite the break to another edition of Supergirl catchup. Finally got round to resuming Supergirl viewing responsibilities and although I had quite a few negative things to say about season 3 (especially the latter half), I am very much ready and excited to dive into season 4!

Overall this was a strong premier setting up the new premise nice and clearly: Aliens are entrenched in society now and are getting some equal rights but obviously not everyone is happy about it. It is easy to follow and opens up a lot of interesting storytelling possibilities but I just don’t want them to go in too hard on the social commentary. It is great when a show does this well but Supergirl can be a bit too in your face and on the nose about these kinds of things.

So far so good though as I liked how they set up some tension and differing of viewpoints between Kara and Jonn. She believed that all was good regarding human-alien relations and Jonn pointed out that she thinks that because she looks human and has not been targeted personally. He has a point: you are less likely to call out the young lady humanoid saving everyone from disaster after potential disaster. It highlighted how people can operate within the confines of their own personal bubble while still helping others and wanting the best for everybody. I liked too how they didn’t milk this out too much with the disagreement between the pair soon shifting into Kara’s thoughts on Jonn’s new-found pacifist stance.

Brainy is still hear which is great but I just want him and Alex to be best buds. I loved the relationship between Alex and Winn (who I already miss) and with him gone Brainy has every opportunity to move into second place behind Alex on the best characters list. It made me sad seeing them argue but I’m going to just cross my fingers and hope for the best…

We had some new villains introduced with a particularly intimidating individual being revealed right at the end of the episode. I saw Sam Witwer’s name credited so I presume that’s him under there and if so then that is a great casting choice. That guy is just great in everything he’s in whether it be live action or voice work. They are bigoted against aliens and that is a simple enough villain premise for now. I just hope that they build on that in some way to add more depth to things because them just being a racist and that’s it is going to be hard to really keep you truly engaged for 22 episodes.

Good start though and I look forward to seeing what happens next.

DD Rating: 8.25/10