Supergirl Review: A Few Good Women (Season 6 Episode 2)

Supergirl Season 6 Episode 2, “A Few Good Women,” emphasizes the family and the importance of truth at this show’s center. After last season brought in gods and Lex pretending to be one, it’s comforting to have Supergirl return to what makes it so great for its final episodes.

“A Few Good Women” reveals that Jason Behr is playing Kara’s father, Zor-El. This is a little odd at first since Robert Grant played him during the first two seasons. Zor-El’s new face is never a topic of conversation between the father and daughter when they reunite. 

It could simply be a casting change like when Erica Durance joined the show as Alura after Laura Benanti left. However, like most Arrowverse shows, Supergirl can blame Crisis for this casting change. 

The show does this later when explaining why the Phantom Zone is fractured. It’d be much too simple for Kara’s friends to find her on their first try, so, of course, Crisis is the logical explanation to the problem. 

Either way, it’s fantastic to see Kara reunite with her father, and it gives us yet another opportunity to see the Paragon of Hope in action. Zor-El has lost all sense of hope after being stuck in the Phantom Zone for so long. 

That nicely juxtaposes Kara’s tenacity and strong-willed belief that they will find a way out. Wherever Kara Danvers goes, hope follows. 

Alternatively, “A Few Good Women” shows that even after Kara leaves a place, her effects are still there. She leaves such a lasting impression on people that it’s impossible not to still feel her with you. 

That’s a sentiment that is all too real to us, as fans, as we reluctantly head towards Supergirl‘s final episode. 

It’s also a sentiment that is hitting the Super Friends harder than they’d like to admit. “A Few Good Women” does such a great job of showing how each person close to Kara deals with her absence. Personally, the most moving examples are Alex, Nia, and J’onn. 

Alex gets Kara’s favorite foods ready because Alex can’t imagine that what did happen could happen. Alex and Kara are two sides of the same coin, and it’s challenging to see Alex without her sister. 

Alex is lucky to have Kelly, who evidently learned about Supergirl’s identity, off-camera. Kelly is hopeful after everything she’s been through in her life.

We see that when she advises Silas to help them. We see it again when she assures Alex that everything will be okay. 

Kelly had a similar moment on Supergirl Season 6 Episode 1, “Rebirth,” with Andrea that was a real standout moment for me. Kelly always has an inspirational speech up her sleeve, and even heroes need that sometimes. 

Selfishly, I hope we get to see her suit up sometime soon. James left her the Guardian shield for something. He knows, just as well as we do that Kelly is destined for greatness. 

As for Nia, Supergirl does a beautiful job of genuinely showing her trying to live up to the standards she saw all those years. Brainy being the one to lift Nia up at this moment is an excellent decision because of their close connection. 

Not only does it make Brainy more likable after all the rough times last season, but it also gives us a glimpse at what Nia is battling. It’s easy for us to scream at our TVs that Dreamer is one of the coolest and powerful superheroes on TV right now, but it’s different for Nia to have to come to that realization herself. 

It’s exciting to think this is a part of Nia’s journey to further step into her power as Dreamer. Hopefully, this stays at the forefront of the final season.

If Nia ends the show more confident in herself and her abilities than ever before, it would be a significant letdown to not see this character pop up on another Arroweverse show at some point. 

It’s beneficial that Supergirl is finally letting us see more of Dreamer’s powers and learn about them alongside Nia. A lot of the time, Dreamer does things without any real precedent or explanation. This training session with Brainy pulls back the curtain in a good way. 

As for J’onn, Supergirl introduces an exciting storyline that could be one of its best yet. M’gann voices concern that J’onn is skipping steps and not thinking practically because of his emotional attachment to Kara. 

In that sense, it’s easy to agree with M’gann that it could be beneficial for J’onn to take a step back and examine the situation from a different perspective. The best piece of evidence for this is that Kara would not want J’onn to yell in Silas’ face to work harder on her behalf. 

J’onn takes this advice too far and presumably vows to remove all emotion from the situation, which can’t be a good thing. It’s never a good thing. It’s hard to believe, but there are still people in today’s society who believe that men should no sign of feelings because that would make them weak. 

According to some people, men are meant to be pillars of fortitude, and feelings would only get in the way of that. A man with too many feelings is weak, and a woman with too many feelings is hysterical. 

Supergirl has the opportunity to show how reductive and damaging those viewpoints are this season. The show could lead J’onn down a road that ends with him realizing the strength of his emotions and how that contributes to him being a great man and a good hero. 

Supergirl delves into the latter part of that argument on “A Few Good Women.” Lex feeds into that belief system by weaponizing Eve and Lena’s feelings into a smear campaign against a powerful man, and it works in his favor. 

This ruling brings Lena and Andrea together in a shared goal to take down Lex Luthor if it’s the last thing they do, but it also puts them up against a patriarchal society that sides with him. 

Though I do not question the power and intelligence of Lena Luthor, she will need more than her resources to go up against something that big. There’s no doubt that she can take on Lex on her own, she did, and she got him to break. 

It’s the fact that the jury, the people that represent a larger population, saw through her truth and leaned into his insanity. That is easier for them than believing a woman, which is a lot to go up against alone. Thankfully, Lena has Andrea and the entirety of CatCo behind her.  

Ideally, Supergirl will promptly return Kara to National City because it’s hard to imagine that Kara wouldn’t want to be a part of this fight. The same goes for all the other heroes on this show.

Yes, the Phantoms are scary. However, it’s terrifying that someone like Lex Luthor could get off and still be held in good nature with a larger population after essentially admitting to catastrophic crimes. He claims his power is the real thing under attack rather than his terrible actions. 

It’s eerie how this situation mirrors some as seen in the real world. Supergirl is usually strongest when it follows through on stories of this magnitude like it did on Season 4. Hopefully, this final season will continue down this path. 

Stray Thoughts

• Does Andrea’s dedication to journalism entirely catch anyone else off guard? 
• I loved when Alex says she’ll cover Silas and then J’onn covers her.
• Lillian is too much for me sometimes. She’s too flip-floppy. 
• Lena’s power strut into the courtroom is iconic. 
• There are more Malefic and Cat Grant mentions in this episode. 
• There’s a Big Belly Burger on Earth-Prime, so now they can enjoy it in National City. I loved that nod. 

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Supergirl airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on The CW.

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