We Discuss:

• Phantom Zone confusion
• J’onn being a jerk
• Alex and J’onn’s feels
• Lena and Brainy’s murder plans
• Lex and Lena great story
• Kara bringing hope
• Nyxly being suss
• Post Crisis stress

Editor: David Schaub

We Discuss:

• The Trial of The Century
• Lex being Lex
• Lena being clever
• Lillian being complicated
• Brainy training Nia poorly
• Andrea failing at journalism
• Alex and J’onn character assassination
• Silas being great
• The Phantom Zone being messy
• and Kara bringing hope

Editor: David Schaub

We Discuss:

• Whether this is a finale or premier.
• So much plot.
• All the personal moments.
• Lex being his own worst enemy.
• The ephemeral nature of comic book deaths.
• Our hopes and dreams for the final season.

Editor: David Schaub

During Supergirl’s hiatus, the Supergirl Supercast takes a small dip into the “Pilot” of Superman & Lois!

We Discuss:

• how this show does/doesn’t fit into the CW;
• how little Lois has to do;
• the CW Drama;
• speculating about all the big baddies, and
• our general feels about the show.

Edited by Trish Matson

We Discuss:

• Lena!!!
• Brainy needing a win.
• Dreamer paying attention.
• Kara’s ONE mistake and her inability to hold a grudge.
• Believing in great editing.
• Alex’s “disguise”.
• The power of imagination.
• Heat vision surgery super-science.
• Lex saving people.
• The remaining Leviathan mysteries.

Editor: David Schaub

We Discuss:

• Lena’s response to failure
• Lex’s EXTRA vindictiveness
• Nia’s dream interpretation failures
• M’Gann and J’onn’s great heroism
• Brainy’s life hitting bottom
• Librarian Samwise’s wisdom
• Kelly and William’s Flailing
• Alex’s future costume
• Jarhanpurians’ strangeness
• Lena and Kara’s great last scene
• and the power of USB flash drives

Edited by David Schaub

We Discuss:

• This great little kinda-clip episode;
• How EVERYTHING is Lex’s fault;
• Earth-Prime’s impressive Lillian;
• Chekhov’s pysanka?
• Disappointment with Lena’s characterization;
• Unexplained mice;
• Lex’s tipping point and future fall;
• Eve cruelty;
• Sad VR;
• Season finale production discussion.

Edited by David Schaub

We Discuss:

• The good guys having no idea who the bad guys are;
• VR being dangerous;
• Insane bug management, which is getting worse?
• Alex failing to cope, and forgetting the last episode;
• Alex strange unhealthy fantasy choices;
• William not doing his job?
• VR Complexities;
• Kelly’s priorities;
• This season’s wonderful complexity.

Edited by David Schaub

We Discuss:

• How shockingly dangerous Obsidian Platinum is (thanks Leviathan);
• Alex fighting her magic martian weapon;
• J’onn & Alex PIs on the case;
• The nice parallel real and VR investigation;
• Kelly being shocked by Obsidian Platinum sucking;
• Kara’s failing to understand the trans community;
• The cops being presented TOO positively;
• Brainy being conflicted, but helpful;
• Nia & Yvette carrying the episode, and doing it well.
• Oh, and news about Kara and Alex’s Dad!

Edited by David Schaub

We Discuss:

• Alex coping with not having a gun, or powers, or an army;
• Lex being helpful, and failing to kill anyone;
• Lex and Brainy’s plan being surprising, and overly complicated;
• Lena making progress, and not understanding why her mind altering is considered mind control;
• Lena testing unethically, and failing;
• Lex and Gemma continuing to spar;
• The baddie attempting to try to stop Obsidian Platinum’s launch;
• and when getting into a relationship, how many dates before you tell them you have super powers?

Edited by David Schaub

We Discuss:

• Mxy’s rules;
• Why it should have been pre-crisis;
• Kara’s apologies to us for being horrible to Lena;
• Fun re-creations of previous seasons’ scenes;
• Choose your own adventures where all the endings sucks;
• Revealing secret identities only mattering in “fake timelines”;
• Kara giving up too easily;
• Whether the right lesson for Kara was: “I was right all along”.

Edited by David Schaub

We Discuss:

• Kara learning that lying is bad;
• William and Kara almost starting to date;
• Technology is SCARY;
• Wonderful complex manipulations between Lena, Lex, and Leviathan;
• Obisidian Platinum is so high tech… it’s magic;
• ghost in the machine Evil Winn fights Good Winn;
• Winn’s closurer;
• Brainy and Alex butting heads pushes Alex over the edge;
• Mr. Mxyzptlk!

Edited by David Schaub

We Discuss:

• Convoluted Lex plots;
• Brainy’s big feels;
• New secrets;
• Wynn not helping Nia,
• Some weak pep-talks;
• Nia reduced to punchy-punchy;
• What’s up with Acrata;
• Q-waves being beaches from the future;
• Our search for continuity;
• A new tower;
• And the woes of the internet and technology;

Edited by David Schaub

We Discuss:

• post crisis multi-verse and memories strangeness
• new backstories
• so many unknowns
• chess games hopes
• Lena’s choices
• some good, some bad arguments
• economy of Brainys
• more lies
• and a bit about post-crisis Black Lightning

We Discuss:

• This wonderful hot-mess of a cross-over;
• Strange backstories;
• All the big fight setups;
• Viewer surrogate Ryan gets all the great lines;
• The need to save hell-scape Freeland;
• The soft-reboot consequences;
• Filler plots digressions that accomplish nothing;
• Comparisons with the comic.
• What’s with Superman’s memory

Edited by David Schaub.

We Discuss:

• the multi-verse of multi-verses;
• the amazing cameos & references;
• the ridiculous plot machinations;
• the needs of the few winning;
• the Earth as the centre of the universe;
• the Black Lightning cross-over episode;
• the differences from the comic;
• and what will get rewound?

Edited by David Schaub.

We discuss:

• Everyone being the hero of this episode
• Rama Khan being weak
• Kara arguing well, but not going far enough
• Lena trying to be good so much she’s bad
• Brainy being competent
• J’onn and Malefic doing great things
• Alex making the hard calls
• Andrea trying to fight back
• The Monitor being a helpful jerk

We Discuss:

• Kelly trying to breakup with Alex, but they talk successfully;
• J’onn and Vision Myr’nn successfully talking;
• J’onn and Malefic failing to talk, but maybe telepathy is working;
• After Lena’s reveal, Lena and Kara talk, but are entirely failing to communicate;
• Lena stealing Myriad;
• Brainy feeling less inhibited;
• Leviathan killing the dinosaurs;
• Rama Kahn, the earth bender, hunting Lena;
• The coming crisis…

We discuss:

• Andrea & Lena’s childhood bonding.
• Lena’s screwed up family.
• Andrea’s poor choices when supporting her father.
• Andrea’s betrayal, kinda mirroring Kara’s.
• Shadow-walking killer Acrata’s reveal.
• Leviathan’s incredible capabilities and massive over reactions.
• Lena’s biological mom.
• DEO’s security failures.
• Lena’s plans.

We discuss:

• this episode only having half an episode of content;
• Andrea’s VR product being a bad Second Life clone;
• Kara’s bizarre secret keeping;
• Rip Roar’s plot and character being equally boring;
• water effects eating the episode’s budget; and
• the pros and cons of biohertz.

Edited by David Schaub.

We discuss:

• Malefic’s complicated hunt;
• J’onn’s blame game;
• Nia & Kara’s investigations;
• William’s toxic jerk status;
• baddie-of-the-week’s 45 second plot;
• Kelly & James’ super corrupt hometown;
• Nia & Brainy’s further communication;
• James’ future; and
• some amusing props and set-dressing.

Edited by David Schaub.

We discuss:

• Nia dealing with Brainy being too-much;
• Lena doing evil to stop evil, but needing Lex’s help;
• Kara & Kelly both failing to say NO to their needy friends;
• Malefic getting more powerful and being pissed off about the wrong things;
• J’onn finding out even more bad things in dream memory;
• William & Andrea are doing something, but who knows what; and
• there’s a baddie of the week, but she doesn’t matter much.

We discuss:

• Alex & Kelly almost killing each other, but not really;
• Brainy & Nia failing to communicate, and not being funny;
• Eve & Lena & Hope failing to “Do No Harm”;
• J’onn & Malefic stopping the pain by remembering;
• Lena & Andrea turning out to be competitors;
• Kara & William failing to figure each other out; and
• Nobody caring about the white martian

Our all-listener panel is back with Supergirl Season 5!

We discuss:

• Lena & Kara drama
• Nia being the grown-up with Brainy
• The boring baddie of the week
• The future AR dystopia
• Unethical Journalism
• Bizarre corporate contracts
• Antimatter Super Science
• and some CW talk

We discuss:

• Strange flashbacks

• Various gambits

• Luthor family tea

• The future of Harun-El

• Big Fights

• Lena and Kara competing to be the biggest dummy

• Nia being too understanding

• George being awesome

• The entire season and our hopes and fears for next.

Edited by Deanna Chapman

We discuss:

• Alex remembering

• The DEO lying about what triangulation means

• Super Fighting

• Lena being risky

• Brainy & Dreamer having stupid stupid stupid plans

• Everything else happening off screen

Edited by Deanna Chapman.

We discuss:

• Lena & Kara learning things in Kasnia, while Kara makes incomprehensible decisions.

• Alex & Kelley bonding while Alex is still not doing her job;

• Lockwood losing it, and being a really sucky dad;

Wait… this is ALSO not an episode about Eve.

Sponsored by the Supergirl Supercar!

Edited by Seth Heasley

We discuss:

• James and Kelly overcoming childhood trauma.

• Nia picking up the cape but NOT dreaming.

• Kara being awesome being Kara.

• Lockwood family woes.

• Lena hitting bottom.

• Alex not doing her job, but hanging out with Kelley.

• J’onn hiding on Mars while directing this great episode.

Edited by Deanna Chapman.

This week, we discuss:

• James making hard choices;

• Brainy avoiding hard choices;

• Lean burying herself in Lex’s manipulations;

• Supergirl being a narcisist trouble-maker;

• Alex failing to get fired;

• Haley making the right hard choices in spite of Alex;

• Lockwood being delayed, but now armed;

• and, will Kara and James EVER stop forgetting that their day jobs are powerful?

Edited by Seth Heasley

Discussed this week:

-J’onn getting manipulated by M’yrnn?

-Lena/Alex/Supergirl learn to be bygons?

-Not actually much about Eve?

-James PTSDing or powering up?

-Red Supergirl making trouble?

Edited by Deanna Chapman.

Discussed this week:

• Lex’s poor risk assessment, and knowing too much to live;

• Eve’s strange backstory;

• The “Lena’s a dummy” problem;

• Red’s corruption;

• and a poorly plotted use of long range rockets.

Edited by Seth Heasley

Topics this week: - James not being quite dead yet;

• Nia and Brainy blaming themselves, and Keanu getting between them;

• The ongoing inconsistent Lena characterization, and her working with lex;

• Doylist VS Watsonian backstories for Eve;

• Development of the Harun-El Curative Tonic; and

• Manchester Black spending all his focus on finding J’onn beautiful.

Edited by Deanna Chapman

Under discussion this time:

• The elite falling like dominos and tricking the viewers?
• Alex doing her job,
• Brainy NOT doing his job,
• Dreamer dialling it to 11,
• Quentin getting the arc Ben won’t,
• and James groking his job, briefly

Edited by Deanna Chapman.

Under discussion this week:

• Lena working with the DEO, but invalidating the apparent reason for the breakup;
• Nia training with brainy… the man-splaining stopped, and hopefully the boring fights will too;
• The Elite forming and causing trouble;
• The President sounding strangely reasonable in comparison to Supergirl;
• J’onn questioning his pacifism for doylist reasons; and,
• Agent Liberty getting more power and more crazed.

Edited by Seth Heasley

Under discussion this time: - So many Valentine’s Days motifs… - DC’s take on Venom; - Kara trying to work with Alex; - Ben Lockwood putting his child in danger; - Brainy and Nia’s progress; - James and Lena’s woes; and - The President making lots of bad calls.

Edited by Deanna Chapman

This time we have sisters discussing sisters! Also under discussion: - new Alex; - dude-bro rage; - the keeping of far too many secrets; - Nia’s powerful, and painful, origin story

Edited by Deanna Chapman

Under discussion this time:

• The towering hypocrisy of Kara opining that coverups always get found out.
• Alternate plans to trap invisible creatures (silly string!)
• The urgent need to have MIB-style memory flashy things.
• New set alert! John Jones, PI
• The possible impact of the mind wipe on Alex’s personality and identity

No time for a clever synopsis; too much to cover. It’s crossover time!

Plot points:

• Nia Nal’s powers are revealed.
• Manchester Black’s creepy horror movie home invasion
• Agent Liberty’s poor choice of secret hideouts on his own property
• The new President isn’t evil, but is a bit of a populist ass.

Discussion points:

• What does “Cards up” mean?
• The possibility of weaponized shouting and/or spit in the right Superhands.
• The incredible durability of Lockwood Steel (nicely surviving a Super drop test)
• Supergirl winning the battle but losing the PR war.

This week, the episode is all about plans!

• Lena trying to give Subject-0331 powers
• Agent Liberty trying to kill Supergirl and blow up the “Statue of Liberty for Aliens”
• Manchester Black’s trading Supergirl’s life for a chance to kill Agent Liberty.

Do the plans all make sense? We’ll leave it to you to decide. (But the answer is no.)

In this episode, Lena makes a discovery while failing to cure cancer, Manchester Black takes to torture, Ben Lockwood takes to TV, and Supergirl talks down a dragon. Meanwhile, Brainy is still mostly comic relief but does get to have one great operatic fight.

Brainy continues to be the butt of jokes! Kara is truly terrible at journalism and it mystifies our panel how the writers get this so wrong so often. There were also things our panel enjoyed.

• Feelings!
• Alex and J’onn give pep talks;
• J’onn teams up with Manchester Black to find Fiona;
• Brainy and Lena use nanites to clean the air;
• Pies are eaten;

The DEO doesn’t understand what an atmosphere is. Meanwhile, we get a back story for how Agent Liberty became radicalized. Does the explanation work? We’ll leave it to you to decide, but we still applaud the effort to make the villain compelling.

Our panel shares their thoughts on topics including the alien-haters’ plots, rookie reporter Nia’s bravenesses, LCorp’s continuing poor security, and Lena’s nigh-inevitable realization that her BFF Kara is that lying alien Supergirl.

Recap by David Schaub, editing by Deanna Chapman.

Supergirl is back for Season Four! Under discussion by our all-listener panel this week:

• Kara’s white/human lookalike privilege
• Possible future ramifications of J’onn’s disarming of the DEO
• The delight at seeing Kara be, well, Kara Danvers, and discovering another of her kind in Nia
• The literal other of her kind punching a tunnel in Kasnia for some reason
• Lena one-upping her mother in the manipulation department
• Brainy being kind of useless so far

Finale it’s the Season Finally! Wait, was that confusing? So is this episode. Things happen, few of which make logical sense, except perhaps James’s decision to come out as Iron Man/Guardian.

While discussing the penultimate episode of season three, our hosts are flummoxed by Sam’s seeming Kryptonian as Reign but Human as Sam nature, since she totally came from Krypton as far as anyone can tell. What did the Goth Powerpuff Girls do to her?

The Supercast crew is very pro-Murderbot as long as they’re just interrupting potential love triangles. Our panel is also quite underwhelmed by yet another CW show attempting to solve gun violence in one episode, especially given that the DEO moving to non-lethal weapons very much depends on the definition of non-lethal for different alien species.

Back with another installment of Alex lies to Ruby, in an episode that shows Reign can actually border on interesting, and that Kara’s mom is still alive but not a hugger. And Winn and Ruby bond over having supervillain parents.

Once again the questionable tactics of lying to one’s friends, or lying to protect one’s friends, is discussed, along with (gasp) an actual good reason for James to want to be Guardian. And there’s a weird cult with funky rocks that create Worldkillers. Because that makes sense.

Much discussion this week about how deception is maybe, just maybe, the wrong policy most of the time, especially when talking to the daughter of a supervillain. And Supergirl continues to cede the moral high ground to Lena in the “No one should be allowed to have Kryptonite” debate.

It’s all Super Science and Meanwhiles this week on the podcast as an eclipse for some reason affects Supergirl more than night does. Lena is suddenly mistrusted again because she used (gasp!) Kryptonite to contain Reign. Supergirl hates exercise! James chooses Lena over Supergirl. Winn gives Alex a Supersuit with magnets!

Team Supergirl is out to stop Pestilence, while Lena works to determine how to remove Reign from Sam. You know, by electrocuting her repeatedly. Meanwhile, social media evidently doesn’t exist in the future.

M’yrnn J’onzz attempts to mend his failing mental faculties but succeeds in putting the whammy on most of the DEO. Kara learns some cape-fu from Mon El but gives vent to a lot of her problems with him, under the influence(?) of the whammy. And Lena tries to find the dividing line between Sam and Reign.

Supergirl is finally back, and under discussion this week are evolving Worldkillers, killer toys, Pa J’onzz’s deteriorating mental faculties, and Team Supergirl’s skills at Karaoke.

Team Supergirl goes after Purity with all the subtlety of Johnny Weir’s hair! The show gets a villian who’s as interesting as her alter-ego for a change, Mon-El and Imra carry the CW drama for the week, and Alex seems to be prone to drastic changes in behavior from one scene to the next.

Multiple assassination attempts! The reappearance of Lena’s annoying mother, who has the virtue of at least being more interesting than Edge. Oh, and what’s up with Sam/Reign’s physiology?

In the course of discussing this episode, our panel inaugurates a new segment called “Super Science!”, in which eye-roll inducing scientific whoppers are properly called out. In this case, gender-deterministic stellar radiation is chief offender, but there are several other contenders. All in service of a solid episode, funnily enough.

The effectiveness of glasses and masks as disguises in the Berlantiverse is discussed, along with the general “Meh” opinion of Reign as a character. Also, maybe an explanation of Legion Rings would’ve been nice?

Our panel discusses the Season 3 mid-season finale, covering Sam’s lack of work/super-villain balance, the possibility of finding a non-spiked beverage at Kara’s Holiday Party, and Supergirl’s failure to take her fight with Reign to somewhere other than a city full of people.

Our panel discusses the 4-part crossover in a slightly jumbo episode. Topics under consideration are the fact that the bad guys get the best lines, Snart is entirely awesome, and who decided on the Earth numbering scheme, anyway?

Our panel briefly discusses Martian bladder capacity, Mon-El’s evasiveness, and Sam’s disappointing “waking” to become Reign.

Our panel questions why the kids at Midvale High are oddly meh about the murder (or even just death) of a student, the fact that apparently of everyone at the DEO, only J’onn J’onzz owns a car, and the vagaries of Alex and Kara coming to terms with their recent relationship trouble.

Also, Trish is clearly not over the Maggie-Alex breakup, because she just can’t stop calling Alex “Maggie.”

Our panel discusses the polysyllabic chemicals and Morgan Edge’s questionable plans to profit from causing death and destruction in his city, along with Alex and Maggie’s breakup as an example of grownups behaving like grownups, something the CW doesn’t always specialize in.

Our panel tries, unsuccessfully, to untangle the logic of Coville’s Cult of Rao/Supergirl, comparing them to the Appalachian snake handlers. (The Supergirl Supercast does not endorse throwing snakes at people.) They also mull possible ways for Maggie and Alex to get past the whole having children or not having children thing.

Martians do what Martians do. Join a trio of Incomparable listeners as they break down the latest “Supergirl.” Topics discussed: Weaponized Britney Spears music, shape-shifting technology, which isn’t a thing, and Maggie and J’onn J’onzz’s daddy issues.

Our listener-led Supergirl crew is back with a recap of the latest episode. This podcast is free of psychic attacks.

Supergirl is back and so is our listener-led podcast breaking down each episode! It’s finally here… the season premiere!

The Supergirl Supercast wraps the season with coverage of the finale! Nevertheless, they persisted.

In discussing the penultimate episode of Season 2, “Resist,” Trish and David praise the return of Cat Grant, rename Cyborg Superman to R2D2 and question the fictional lineage of Linda Carter’s alien-shape-shifter President. Also, Trish suggests giving Alaska to the Daxomites.

Edited by Seth Heasley, who as a born and bred Alaskan objects to Trish’s plan.

Our listener panel reconvenes to discuss the episode “City of Lost Children”, which is sort of like “City on the Edge Of Forever”, except with… nope, that’s not it.

Edited by Seth Heasley.

The Supergirl Supercast returns to discuss “Alex.” Tactical underwear are discussed, along with Alex’s many skillful MacGyverings.

We’re back with reviews of three recent episodes of “Supergirl!” Musical complications and annoying alien parents!

Immigration, deportation, and spaceships!

(Edited by Seth Heasley!)

Kltpzyxm! Dean Cain! Two more “Supergirl” episodes are reviewed by our crack panel of listeners.

White and green martians! Lucy Luthor’s family loyalty, tested! Our all-Incomparable listener panel breaks it all down.

Our listener-staffed Supergirl Supercast returns. Kara goes through a Stargate! Alien intrigue! And Livewire returns.

Our listener-generated “Supergirl” reviews continue with this episode, catching up with “The Darkest Place” and “Medusa” from November.

Turn and face the strange! Lots of ch-ch-changes going on in National City. Lisa Schmeiser and our panel of podcast listeners have a recap!

Thanks to Seth Hensley for editing.

The Supergirl Supercast returns for a second installment! In these episodes Lynda Carter comes to town, we explore the alien underbelly of National City, and get to know Mon-El a lot better. Plus there are surprise alien reveals aplenty, and Alex makes a new friend.

Lisa Schmeiser is joined by a panel of Incomparable listeners (Ashley Pinder, Dov Frankel, Trish Matson, and Scott Grizzle) to break down the first two episodes of the second season of “Supergirl.”