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Benoist makes it all work. The redeeming magic of perfect casting. Her performance embraces, internalizes, and sells the character's contradictions and paradoxes. She makes Kara feel real, she wears the costume proudly and easily, she's joy and complexity at once. Supergirl begins to fill a shameful void that needs to be followed with cleaner, more artful wins. It will most likely come from original creations — the next Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the next Veronica Mars — or adaptations of edgier, more contemporary properties that can allow for more creative daring, like The CW's excellent iZombie or (hopefully) the upcoming Netflix series, Marvel's Jessica Jones. The frustrations of Supergirl remind us that super-powered super-people often make for problematic vehicles for exploring issues of Otherness, diversity, race and gender – especially intrinsically flawed comic book brands beholden to the values of another era and bound by franchise restrictions. "Can you believe it? A female hero. Nice for my daughter to have someone like that to look up to." Yes, that is nice. Now, we need better."
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502:, this premiere establishes the show's appropriately upbeat tone and sets up more than enough threads to explore across its first 13 episodes—and hopefully many more to come." Stacy Glanzman of TV Fanatic gave the episode a 5.0 out of 5 stars.
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