But the last-minute reveal that Lena hasnвЂ™t really made amends with Kara and is still intent on ruining her and virtually punching her feels a bit petty, like an excuse to manufacture conflict where there otherwise is none. This kind of thing is what the show does best, and on the level of character, itвЂ™s firing on all cylinders here. SupergirlвЂ™s tasteful new suit deploys when she stylishly whips off her glasses, which gets a field test, right after a well-written and very well-acted conversation in which Kara confesses to Lena about being Supergirl. That party also plays host to some other shenanigans in вЂњEvent HorizonвЂќ.

Her Pulitzer - awarded in SupergirlВ Season 5, Episode 1 in a party cut a bit short by the return of Midnight - is exactly the kind of work that Andrea wants CatCo to move away from, which is how we find William Day (Staz Nair) rewriting one of KaraвЂ™s pieces and Kara refusing to compromise her integrity. ItвЂ™s more of an excuse to sketch out some ethical boundaries and help to position Kara as a beacon of uncompromising moral good, which is, of course, how all of the Super-characters should work. A major undercurrent is an endless battle between ethical journalism and for-profit tabloid reporting, which is splitting CatCo apart now that Andrea has taken the editor-in-chiefвЂ™s chair and apparently somehow bound everyone into contracts of indentured servitude which, if broken, can - again, somehow - prohibit the violator from ever working in the field of journalism again. A very obvious trap in the form of a homemade Phantom Zone projector introduces the gang to Midnight (Jennifer Cheon Garcia), the villain of the week in SupergirlВ Season 5, Episode 1 who wants revenge on JвЂ™onn JвЂ™onzz (David Harewood).ДЄs ever, this stuff feels rather secondary to the on-going characterization and themes of вЂњEvent HorizonвЂќ. ThatвЂ™s a problem because with the right expertise it can be turned into a bomb with enough power to wipe out several solar systems. Also hilarious: A girl who shape-shifts into a T-rex and hijacks the pod that Superman came to Earth in. When Kara and James (Mehcad Brooks) discover that CatCo is now owned by LenaвЂ™s old school friend Andrea Rojas (Julie Gonzalo), she apologizes for making Kara look foolish by keeping her in the dark, which is hilarious.

вЂњEvent HorizonвЂќ is also a celebration of pettiness. Encroaching technology seems a running theme of SupergirlВ Season 5, which laments the increasing lack of genuine human engagement in day-to-day-life. Lena has a new AI friend, Hope (Kari Wahlgren), who is technologically complex but emotionally unfussy, and she fantasizes about KaraвЂ™s ruination with VR contact lenses.

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