Supergirl continues Monday, October 31 with ‘Survivors’ at 8pm on The CW.
On the other hand, complexity can be where sci-fi allegories break down on inspection.
What’s to be made, for example, of one of the episode’s other big post-climactic reveals, where Carter’s POTUS is shown to be an alien-in-disguise herself?
But Supergirl also wants you to be thinking of these events in connection to contemporary real-world issues, and that could cast the reveal in potential troubling hues for some viewers.