Plot Summary: The adventures of Superman's cousin in her own superhero career.
IMDB Ratings: 6.3/10 from 13,687 users
Release Date: .............
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Creators: Ali Adler, Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg
Stars: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh | See full cast and crew »
Stars: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh | See full cast and crew »
Storyline:
The adventures of Superman's cousin in her own superhero career.
Supergirl (2015– ) User Reviews:
The only good thing about this vapid excuse for a show was the nod to Superparents Dean Cain and Helen Slater as Superman and Supergirl respectively.
Otherwise, it was filled with bad acting, bad writing, bad characterization, and en vogue feminist buzzwords, as if the social justice messaging could make up for the crappy plot and simpering, wimpy, whiny dialogue.
Melissa Benoit, who was whiny and irritating in Glee, was whiny and irritating as the title character in this show. "If we call her Supergirl," she pouts to her overbearing shrew of a boss after the latter names the new superhero, "something less than what she is, doesn't that make us guilty of being anti-feminist?"
*headdesk*
Mehcad Brooks as Jimmy Olsen… oh, excuse me, James Olsen – the love interest. Yeah, no. He's way too hot, masculine, and sexy for the innocent young girl that Supergirl is supposed to be! I'm not a purist, so to me, he doesn't have to be a complete and utter dork, but he looks more like her older uncle and mentor, rather than a love interest. And even though the show tried to create this spark between them, he's just too sexy for her! No!
Calista Flockhart as the media mogul boss is just a screeching harpy. You seriously want to smack her in the face. Why is it that the most financially successful female on the show, the only one who has ostensibly broken through the glass ceiling in her chosen career field, is a raging jerk? Is the implication that the only way you can be a career success as a woman is if you treat people like something slimy on the bottom of your shoe?
Quite the message to send girls aspiring for career success!
I wanted to like it SO much, and it was just a horrible disappointment.
Please make it go away!
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