Supergirl Recap: Survivors

Season 2 / Episode 4 / The CW And you say National City all over CW! This week’s episode of Supergirl left the big-bad super-powered villains at home. In their place we get blessed with some good ol fashioned plot development, character exploration, and head-spinning cliffhangers. DEO: We pop off with Hank, Supergirl, and Alex listening to Mon El break down the historic West Coast vs East Coast beef between Krypton and Daxum, and Mon El’s story of how he escaped his dying planet. Turns out he was a palace guard for the Great Royal Family of Daxum. It also turns out that interplanetary racism be running through the Galaxy with its woes! As soon as dude starts reminiscing about home and the royal bodyguard life, Kara starts going HAM about how douchy the royal family was. Well, all I gotta say is, if one of the sons happens to be the guy from Mon El’s escape then he’s got one giant set of brave brass grapefruit because his excellence forced Mon El to hop in the Kryptonian pod, sacrificing himself so he could share in his people’s pain. AKA homie rides for his and dies for his AKA the captain is goin down with this ship! Very noble. Yes, very Ned Stark of him, indeed.

Out in dem streets, an alien is found dead in the trunk of a car. Maggie, our dear gorgeous friend, the only woman person I’ve ever seen make Alex weak in the knees, figures out he must’ve had an affinity for fighting cuz she all up in that trunk performing mid-crime scene hood autopsies determining that homeboy w…