Supergirl - Season 5, Episode 02: Stranger Beside Me
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The fifth season starts with Kara trying to fix her relationship with Lena after there were differences between them. In the meantime, J'onn J'onzz takes more thought about his memory and recalls more events. Kelly tries to help an old friend who is in real trouble, and Kara decided at the time to accept Pulitzer for her writing.
Jesse Warn, David McWhirter, Stefan Pleszczynski, Tawnia McKiernan, Antonio Negret, Shannon Kohli, Rachel Talalay, Ben Hernandez Bray, Andi Armaganian, Alexis Ostrander, Eric Dean Seaton, Melissa Benoist
For the time being though we only have a scary little girl, eight foot white Martian and an elaborate mind palace to distract us from the saccharine soaked undercurrent running through season five.
Supergirl's second episode of the season puts several plotlines in the oven to bake, and we'll no doubt see them crisp up to a golden brown as the weeks march along.
Supergirl is at its best when it is highlighting carefully-constructed relationships on the show, and the father-daughter relationship between Kara and J'onn is one of the best-earned dynamics on the series.
"Stranger Beside Me" lays out some interesting ideas and themes for the season to explore, it just doesn't entirely function as an episode in its own right.
