Supergirl SEASON 6 EPISODE 10: “STILL I RISE" (SPOILERS)

Official synopsis:

NIA SPENDS TIME WITH HER MOM – Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) intervenes when a building in the Heights that was set aside for low income housing is suddenly at risk to be sold to a major corporation. Supergirl recruits Orlando (guest star Jhaleil Swaby) to help her win over the city, but things go awry when Nyxly (Peta Sergeant) shows up. Meanwhile, Nia (Nicole Maines) trains with her mother (guest star Kate Burton). The episode was directed by Jesse Warn with story by Jess Kardos and teleplay by Nicki Holcomb & Jen Troy (#610). Original airdate 9/7/2021.

They released a preview/sneak peek today.

 

Overall an enjoyable episode. The PSA had me laughing, Melissa’s facial expressions are priceless. I think they found something everyone can get behind, it’s true that people should eat more vegetables. I think this episode had some of Nicole’s best work. It’s pretty amazing she came to this show three seasons ago with very little acting experience. Working alongside an incredible group of more experienced actors has done a lot to polish her natural talent. She’s not on the same level as her castmates but she’s eight years or more younger.


The reality is they basically had 13 episodes to wrap up as many of the series story and character arcs as possible while telling a new story. The most efficient way to do that is to use the same story to accomplish multiple things. An example is Nia needed to talk with her mom and Nyxly needed to be unleashed preferably in a way that Kara didn’t see her coming. So however successfully you think it was done they tied the stories together because it was deemed the best way to accomplish both goals. There may have been things they wanted to take longer with but ran out of time. There were probably things they wanted to do but couldn’t.


We know social issues are in the DNA of this show. I think Kara having Orlando speak is part of Kara not carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. She alone doesn’t have to and in fact can’t fix it. I think that’s going to be Kara’s final character arc.


There were a couple of nice call backs. Kara talking about when Alex trained her and Kara mad and hitting things along side Kelly like she did with James. J’onn needs to get Kara a wrecked car or a reinforced concrete pillar to hit. Something that can take more than one punch when she needs to hit something.


Nyxly looks to be a formidable villain, Peta’s doing a fantastic job. Kryptonians are vulnerable to magic and they never really explored that before. I wonder if Nyxly will trick Lex into working together and double cross him. Nyxly tricking him could be part of his downfall.