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The first season of the American television series Supergirl, which is based on the DC Comics character Supergirl / Kara Zor-El, a costumed superheroine who is the cousin to Superman and one of the last surviving Kryptonians.

Supergirl was ordered to series in May 2015, and later picked up for a full season in November 2015, with filming taking place primarily in Los Angeles. Melissa Benoist stars in the titular role, and is joined by principal cast members Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood, and Calista Flockhart.

The series premiere was watched by 12.96 million viewers, tied with NBC's Blindspot as the top-rated series premiere of the 2015–16 fall season. The season, which premiered on CBS on October 26, 2015, and ran until April 18, 2016, over 20 episodes, overall received positive reviews. The series was renewed for a second season on May 12, 2016, and moved to The CW.

Plot
In the first season, Kara Danvers becomes Supergirl. Having hid her powers for more than a decade, Kara is forced to reveal her powers to thwart an unexpected disaster. She becomes National City's protector. Kara discovers that hundreds of the criminals her mother prosecuted as a judge on Krypton are hiding on Earth, including her mother's twin sister Astra and Astra's husband Non, who seek to rule the world. After briefly becoming suspicious of the true agenda of her boss, Hank Henshaw, she and her adoptive sister, Alex Danvers, secretly discover that Henshaw is actually benevolent Green Martian refugee J'onn J'onzz, who assumes Henshaw's identity some fifty years after escaping a holocaust on Mars. He infiltrated the DEO to reform the organization and keep watch over Kara. Over the course of the season, Kara is targeted by criminals as the result of connection to Superman, and encounters an emerging community of metahumans, as well as people from parallel universes. She is aided by a few close friends and family who guard her secrets – most significantly her cousin's longtime friend, James Olsen and tech genius Winn Schott.

Episodes

 * Notes

Main

 * Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers / Supergirl
 * Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen
 * Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers
 * Jeremy Jordan as Winslow "Winn" Schott, Jr.
 * David Harewood as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter
 * Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant

Recurring

 * Laura Benanti as Alura Zor-El
 * Dean Cain as Jeremiah Danvers
 * Jenna Dewan-Tatum as Lucy Lane
 * Peter Facinelli as Maxwell Lord
 * Brit Morgan as Leslie Willis / Livewire
 * Glenn Morshower as Sam Lane
 * Italia Ricci as Siobhan Smythe / Silver Banshee
 * Helen Slater as Eliza Danvers
 * Chris Vance as Non
 * Laura Vandervoort as Indigo
 * Briana Venskus as Vasquez

Guest
• Jeff Branson as Detective Draper / Master Jailer

• Chris Browning as Ben Krull / Reactron

• Joan Juliet Buck as Katherine Grant

• Emma Caulfield as Cameron Chase

• Tawny Cypress as Miranda Crane

• Henry Czerny as Winslow Schott, Sr. / Toyman

• Daniel DiMaggio as young Kal-El

• Robert Gant as Zor-El

• Iddo Goldberg as T. O. Morrow and Red Tornado

• Grant Gustin as Barry Allen / Flash

• Charles Halford as Jemm

• Blake Jenner as Adam Foster

• Hope Lauren as Bizarro

• Justice Leak as Hellgrammite

• Eddie McClintock as James Harper

• Levi Miller as Carter Grant

• Faran Tahir as The Commander

• Eve Torres Gracie as Maxima

• Owain Yeoman as Vartox The hosts of The Talk, Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Sheryl Underwood, cameo as themselves.

Development
It was picked up from the pilot stage on May 6, 2015, and later picked up for a full season on November 30, 2015.

Music

 * https://supergirl.tv/blake-neely-on-supergirl-score
 * https://twitter.com/cowonthewall/status/590706076787572736?lang=en

All music composed by Blake Neely.

Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 95% approval rating with an average rating of 7.6/10 based on 74 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Melissa Benoist shines as Superman's plucky little cousin in Supergirl, a family-friendly comic-book adaptation that ditches cynicism for heart." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 75 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".


 * 7.3: http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/04/26/supergirl-season-1-review
 * https://www.polygon.com/2016/4/19/11459592/supergirl-finale-recap-and-entire-season-review
 * http://collider.com/superhero-tv-shows-ranked-2016/#supergirl