What I’m Watching: Supergirl

Supergirl: Season 6, Episode 8 “Welcome Back, Kara!” (B-)

This show’s first episode in months wasn’t much to write home about, and that’s mostly because it involved spillover content from Kara’s extended Phantom Zone trip. It never works well to have a long-lost parent that a main character never thought they’d see again stick around unless there’s an actual effort to make them permanent, and I suppose there were some entertaining moments along the way as Zor-El struggled to blend in as a human, lifting a Catco copier with his bare hands just because he could. The notion of a trash-protecting robot wasn’t terribly appealing, though Zor-El’s eagerness to solve Earth’s climate crisis in just a few hours was probably a little ambitious. While he may not be sticking around, Kara’s going to have a tough time forgetting about phantoms given her new punishment/assignment from Andrea, who is truthfully going to have to make hard decisions in order to keep the company afloat. I’m more interested in the fact that William is apparently dating someone and whether they’ll end up getting together before the show ends. Nia’s new nightmare definitely spells trouble for the team ahead, as if Andrea digging into Supergirl’s “superfriends” wasn’t going to be problematic enough. Lena leaving to go back home was a bit of a surprise, and I’m not sure if that means we won’t be seeing more of her in the future. Making Brainy rush to deliver the cake because they thought he would eat it was a humorous if somewhat random introduction back into this show’s universe.