Supergirl offers relatable vision of girl power
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Supergirl offers relatable vision of girl power
C10 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2015 timescolonist.com | TIMES COLONIST TELEVISION Supergirl offers relatable vision of girl power SCOTT COLLINS Los Angeles Times Supergirl is tired. When she changes into her caped costume, Kara Danvers stops being the mild-mannered coffeefetcher at a posh media company and emerges as the nearly invincible woman able to, say, fly at supersonic speeds and save a plunging jetliner before it crashes. She is Supergirl, the main attraction in CBS’ new retelling of the DC Comics franchise, and this time she’s played by a beautiful former Glee costar named Melissa Benoist. The series premières Monday on CBS. Supergirl is bulletproof, but the real-life 26-year-old who flies around in her blue-and-red tights all day could have used a nap by the time 4 p.m. rolled around the last Monday in August. Benoist had tumbled out of bed at her Studio City home by 5:30 a.m., reported to the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank a halfhour later, then headed straight to makeup before the start of a very long day before the cameras. “I’m so tired,” she said during a production break, tipping back on a sofa in the office of Kara’s boss, a media magnate played by former Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart, who was not on set that day. There was no red cape in sight: The office scene that was being shot called for Benoist to wear a modest brown sweater and cream- coloured skirt with tights and boots. CBS is taking a huge roll of the dice with Supergirl, putting an expensive, effects-laden comic-book fantasy in prime time amid ongoing audience declines for TV, not to mention a glut of superhero tales on screens large and small. Fox’s recent movie flop with Fantastic Four proves that not even an established hero franchise is a sure thing. But the comics genre can still pack a crowd when the right project comes along. CBS’ sister network the CW has done well with Arrow and The Flash — two previous entries from Supergirl executive producer Greg Berlanti — and ABC is headed into the third season Kara Danvers stars in Supergirl, premièring Monday. of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The twist for Supergirl is that it promises viewers a relatable vision of female empowerment. 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