Supergirl - Season 1 (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Creators: Ali Adler, Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg
	Actors: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Callista Flockhart (Fragile, Ally McBeal TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: November 2016, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Sent to Earth to protect her cousin Kal-El (that became Superman), Kara (Benoist) arrives in fact years after him without this role to fulfill anymore, until she decides to reveal herself to the inhabitants of Capital City.
Review: I started to watch this TV-series not with real interest but I think because I didn't want to start watching the new season of other series I like to follow, and I was tired and craving yet another super-hero story. I remember the Supergirl movie from 1984 that was trying to replicate the success of Richard Donner's Superman (1978), with a different approach but the same audience. From the very first episodes it is obvious that this Supergirl is a super-heroin TV-series for girls. Not an adult female audience but girls, which makes me really not the right public for it. What makes me say that is not that the lead character and a large part of the cast are female (Kara, her sister, mother, aunt, rivals and boss played nicely by Callista Ally McBeal Flockhart), because the same is true from Joss Whedon's productions (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) but they are cleverly done to speak to anybody. What is girly in Supergirl is the motivation and reaction of those female characters (plenty of gossip about who likes who) and the fact that the male characters seems to be around only to illustrate those motivations: Jeremiah the lost father (nice cameo by Dean Cain from Lois & Clark), Winn the best friend, Jimmy the potential lover, Hank the father-figure, Maxwell Lord the attractive bad guy... It is all a bit too obvious but could be put aside when following the somehow interesting story, if it were not for very cheap and in-your-face special effects that look 10-years old. Still there are a few strong moments: Hank's sacrifice, the change in the aunt's character, the cross-over with the Flash series in Episode 18: Worlds Finest, but unfortunately not enough to motivate me to watch the second season currently being released... except in another period of weakness.
Rating: 3 /10