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The sixth and final season of “Supergirl” gets off to a rocky start, and while the back half of the season has much more purpose, the plot starts to get repetitive and make less and less sense.
Due to COVID and Melissa Benoist’s pregnancy, season five had to abruptly wrap itself up. But, that still left loose ends to start off the new season. The premiere zipped through those loose ends to finish up the old storylines, and then also had to set up a way for Kara to be separate from the rest of the cast for a good handful of episodes. Her Phantom Zone stuff never really clicked and neither did her friends attempts to rescue her. It just felt like they were just spinning their wheels until they could bring everyone back together. Luckily, the trial of Lex Luthor was more entertaining. The second part of the season had a much better concept, but the execution just wasn’t there. The quest for the totems quickly became tedious, as none of them really stood out. And it didn’t help that the gauntlets barely made sense, and the totems powers were really vague. While the Lex and Nyxly pairing seemed to come out of left-field, it actually started to work for me, until the love-sick Lex Luthor started to wear thin.
The character arcs were kind of all over the place this season. Kara was kind of an emotional mess. We rarely got to see that inspirational version of her that has carried this show for six seasons. The return of her father fell flat, and she just didn’t have any chemistry with Nyxly. (Kara usually can find a redeeming factor in the villains, and while Nyxly seemed to have one, Kara gave up on looking for it.) Nia didn’t get anything too special to work with, as her failed attempts to control her dream abilities is something we’ve seen before. She did get some nice emotional moments with her mom and her sister, but the character didn’t seem to grow all that much in the end. Last season seemed to set up a new status quo for Brainy after he removed his inhibiters, but aside from being green more often, the “new” Brainy never really made an impact. Alex’s love life also took steps forward this season, but the addition of their adopted daughter was a nice touch. Kelly’s storyline was fairly strange. They really didn’t seem to know what to do with her, and while the social worker stuff seemed like a decent fit, but it never felt like a good catalyst for her to transform into a vigilante out of the blue. The strangest arc belonged to Lena. Her stuff early on with Lex was good, but then there was this seemingly random plot point that her mother was a powerful witch, and now Lena can do magic too.
As far as the villains go, things were kind of weak. Lex’s best moments were a little bit rushed, and then he was moved off the table until the final few episodes. The smitten version of the character that returns just never quite worked, and only when the manipulative Lex returned did he truly feel like a threat again. Nyxly never ended up working as a character. She was a complex villain with incredible powers, but they seem to refuse to give her any redemption arc, and they neutered her powers at almost every turn.
The show looked on par with previous seasons. With some really good special effect mixed with some mediocre ones. The Phantom Zone looked uninspiring, and we spent most of the season in either the tower or Mitch’s ship.
“Supergirl” ended its run by spinning its wheels the first half of the season before moving onto more interesting things. But the repetitive and vague nature of the totems made things grow stale pretty quickly. We had a decent send off to the characters in the end, but it wasn’t as satisfying as it could’ve been.
*1/2 out of *****