Supergirl: “How Does She Do It?” Review

Lucys actress Jenna Dewan Tatum acknowledged to THR that she understood the reason for delaying “How Does She Do It?”, but assured fans that this Supergirl episode will clear up any questions about whats she doing on the show.

If this episode feels a little disjointed, it’s probably because it’s being shown out of order due to sensitivity to the Paris attacks. This episode will give you much more to chew on. This episode, they’re estranged.

On board the train, Supergirl chases Knox to the very front vehicle, where he reveals the explosives and says that it’s rigged to go off if he’s removed from the train. There would have been far more casualties at the airport.

It’s the threat of a bomb at the airport that really pushes Jimmy back into Lucy’s arms, of course, because he’s a hero at heart too.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Supergirl’s newest addition about preempting her debut as well as what Lucy Lane brings to the show and more. And Winn’s unrequited longing for Kara is at peak annoyance level this episode, which doesn’t help the romance aspect of the show feel any less exhausted. I felt like it was a step back from the heavy-handedness of previous episodes, but maybe still a bit on the nose. With all that in mind, “How Does She Do It?” was a smart episode that made a lot of sense to have early on in the series’ freshman season.

“Hey Kara, can I ask you a question?” She tells him what Lucy told him at Noonan’s.

As it turns out, Cat would probably have been better off just wandering the streets, picking any random person, and trusting that stranger with the welfare of her child.

Kara definitely appeared as up to the legacy that comes with that “S” this week as we’ve ever seen her. She disposed of a bomb that could level 30 square city blocks without a thought for her own safety, and we’ve yet to see her powers get tested quite to that degree. “And I just broke the stapler”. Christopher Reeve famously refused a drink from Margot Kidder in Superman: The Movie by saying “I never drink when I fly”. However, Cat isn’t enjoying her win as much as she should because of her mother who is failing at being a grandmother.

Again, it’s great that a show on CBS is so explicit about the show’s feminist underpinnings. As the series progresses, it needs to find a more organic way to work these moments into the story.

He gets a call, and there’s a bomb in one of his labs. Henshaw orders Alex to leave the facility while he works on it solo. But when a drone is shown watching her, it is obvious this bombing was a setup. Out of fear of another bombing, Alex warns Lord not to go forward with the ceremony celebrating his new electromagnetic train’s maiden voyage. I do not buy the crush Kara has on him, though. There’s very little time, so Supergirl tries to get the bomb as far from the city as quickly as possible. Supergirl is heading toward it as James calls Lucy in a panic and Max helps Carter onto the train to “find his parents”. Everyone employed by CatCo are bad babysitters. Most importantly, he says, was that he got to see that she picked the train and its hundreds of potential victims over the airport and its thousands. No one else seems to care about this.

So Kara severs the lead vehicle from the rest of the train with her heat vision and watches as the lone auto left over speeds away into the distance before exploding.

A bomb detonates in a building, but it is from the same people.

Meanwhile, Supergirl confronts the bomber, who is shocked she knows who he is. Winn says he knows her personally, which Kara shoots down. He was just testing Kara’s speed, strength, and agility.

The whole scene has a nicely done Superman/Lex Luthor vibe to it, meaning it’ll be interesting to see where they go with this relationship in the future. We’ll get to see a few of those in the next run of episodes. We’ll just go with it. The Friend Zone is sort of like the Phantom Zone, in that it is entirely fictional. While getting Cat her lunch, Kara sees James out with his dreaded (for now) ex, Lucy.

Is Lucy Lane jealous of Supergirl?

“I don’t want to burden you with the intricacies of my relationship with Jimmy but real quick let me just tell you exactly what our relationship issues were”.

Besides the mistrust between Kara, Alex, and Henshaw, the other major continuity error from last week’s episode involved filling in the missing piece of how Lucy and James’ relationship went from exes in episode 3 back to boyfriend and girlfriend in episode 4. James reveals that Lucy was the one who dumped him, which surprises Kara. “What was that?” Jimmy wonders, but Kara is too busy shotgunning milkshakes to answer. But when she gets up it’s back to work. Because I super don’t. Hank Henshaw walks around with his eyes glowing but no one catches on that there’s anything weird happening. Cat’s glad that Kara seems to be taking initiative. Are you liking Maxwell Lord as a villain? Do you care at all about the love triangle? Like, at all? Sound off in the comments!