{"id":7403,"date":"2016-04-19T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2021-02-05T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T21:58:25","slug":"supergirl-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/supergirl-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Supergirl (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;If I get sick, I will underperform. If I underperform, our stock prices will fall, thousands of people will lose their job, the S &amp; P will take a hit, and you will personally have triggered the next recession. Do you want to be the next Lehman Brothers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supergirl<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2015-16<\/p>\n<p>Kara is Superman&#8217;s cousin, and she was also sent to Earth when Krypton exploded. She has hidden her powers from the world for years, but she reveals them in order to save a plane that her adopted sister is on. She decides to become Supergirl to protect the people of National City, particularly from some prisoners from Krypton &#8212; who arrived on Earth when she did.<\/p>\n<p>I was excited about this show for months after seeing the preview &#8212; I love the tone of the show. <strong>Gotham<\/strong> is brilliant but this is a friendlier show.<\/p>\n<p>There are some flashbacks to when Kara was a girl back on Krypton.<\/p>\n<p>In one episode Supergirl encounters the Flash (from the TV show <strong>The Flash<\/strong>). The season finale is terrific and it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Melissa Benoist and Calista Flockhart.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Slater (Supergirl in the movie) and Dean Cain (Superman in <strong>Lois &amp; Clark<\/strong>) play Kara&#8217;s adopted parents.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Greg Berlanti (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/political-animals\/\"><strong>Political Animals<\/strong><\/a>), Ali Adler (<strong>The New Normal<\/strong>), and Andrew Kreisberg (<strong>The Flash<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;If I get sick, I will underperform. If I underperform, our stock prices will fall, thousands of people will lose their job, the S &amp; P will take a hit, and you will personally have triggered the next recession. Do you want to be the next Lehman Brothers?&#8221; Supergirl season 1, aired in 2015-16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,5,11],"class_list":["post-7403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17418,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions\/17418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}