What I’m Watching: Stargirl

Stargirl: Season 2, Episode 3 “Summer School: Chapter Three” (B-)

I think is going to be my last episode of this show. I’m just not interested enough in the story anymore, and the new developments in this hour just weren’t gripping enough to change my mind. Mike has always been a bit of an underused character, and here he got to experience what being “so cool” would mean, though he didn’t really just how specific he would have to be. Unfortunately, it also meant that, even when he entered a room with a script ready to read so that he could conjure up exactly what he wanted, the Thunderbolt wasn’t necessarily capable of going up against a nemesis like the Shade. I knew I recognized that excitable voice, and it turns out it was Jim Gaffigan’s, though I did immediately peg the brilliant Ethan Embry from “Brotherhood” and “Grace and Frankie” as Johnny Thunder in the opening scene. The notion of the Shade not being ideologically aligned on all things with the ISA and therefore not an enemy for the JSA was an interesting one, not that they listened, though it appears that, even after he neutralized all of them around the table, he may be looking out for their best interests after all. I am somewhat intrigued, but this show hasn’t gotten to where I had hoped it might be by this point in its run, and I feel like, while there are plenty of worthwhile characters, the structure isn’t tight enough for there to be a payoff on an episodic basis. Maybe I’ll feel differently next week, but I doubt it.