Hello everyone and welcome to another Supergirl catchup post, this time looking at season three’s fourteenth episode. This time we deviated somewhat from the main story of Reign and the other World Killers to give good ol’ Wynn a little bit of the spotlight…and I loved it. This was probably one of my favourite episodes of the season so far. Some may say that parts were silly and I’d go further and down right ridiculous, but they were ridiculous in the right way: a fun way.

We had golden, robotic flying monkeys alongside a very clever play on the “surrender Dorothy” witch message from the Wizard of Oz that took me way to long to recognise. It was weird, it was out there, but I just rolled with it and took in the wackyness. They even had Supergirl enclosed in a plastic casing to essentially become her own life size action figure. This was like it was taken straight out of a comic book and it was great to see the show do it without hesitation or restraint. And of course they couldn’t let Legends of Tomorrow hog all of the dinosaurs for themselves.

We got the introduction of Wynn’s mother who I can only see as the character she played in the Big Bang Theory (plays? I don’t know if she is still in it. I stopped watching after about season 6), I did however like the character so I was ready to warm to her when she arrived here. Wynn’s initial dismissal of her was well done as you were empathising with him throughout, you found out the truth when he did and started to feel bad for the mum. I was glad that Wynn’s anger towards her wasn’t drawn out and it is nice to see that the show at least suggested that she might be sticking around for a bit longer. Even if she doesn’t, it was at least nice to see that she and her son had forged some sort of relationship with one another.

The villain of the episode…a decent enough concept that was a practical soloution for having the Toyman’s arsenal even though he was dead at the beginning of the episode. I liked how it wasn’t just some crazy person who idolised him on TV, but instead a prison guard who he had seduced and basically brainwashed over his years in prison: it was still the original Toyman’s actions rather than just someone else using his stuff.

The only link to Reign this episode was that weird end moment where it was made to look like Lena was up to something dark and dodgy, even though we all knew from last episode that she is just trying to help figure out what is wrong with her friend.It was a strange tease at something that no one would fall for at this point…except James because he is obviously going to get the wrong end of the stick on this somehow.

DD Rating: 9.25/10