Supergirl Season 3 Best & Worst Episodes Ranked

Supergirl Season 3: Best & Worst Episodes, Ranked

The third season of Supergirl became the show’s darkest yet. Here are the best and worst episodes of Season 3.

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Supergirl, similarly to the fellow Arrowverse shows’ third years, had its darkest season with the Girl of Steel’s third year on the small screen. Following the fallout of the Season 2, Season 3 gets into darker territory when Kara (Melissa Benoist) deals with a literal Worldkiller in the form of Reign (Odette Annable) as she left Krypton at the same time as Kara when the planet was coming to an end. In many ways, Season 3 was a season of growing up for many of the characters, including Kara. From start to finish, the season was packed with a lot of serious themes while featuring Kara’s deadliest foe of all time.

Even that year’s DC TV crossover was at its grimmest with viewers getting to see Benoist portray Overgirl, an evil version of Kara from Earth-X. Like the other DC shows’ third seasons, Supergirl’s season three was a very mixed bag, to say the least. With that said, these are the best and worst episodes of Supergirl Season 3.

10 WORST: Schott Through the Heart (Episode 14)

The fourteenth episode is heavily centered on Winn Schott’s (Jeremy Jordan) family life that has been depicted as complicated from the start. Laurie Metcalf guest stars as Winn’s mother who had been absent from his life since childhood.

It’s not until Winn’s father dies that she re-enters his life, revealing how Winslow threatened to kill Winn if she didn’t leave them. While their reunion is powerful, it was still too dark for this show. In addition to that, the idea of killing off one of Superman’s regular foes off-screen is a weird choice.

9 BEST: Triggers (Episode 2)

With the introduction of DC Comics’ Psi (Yael Grobglas) in the second episode, “Triggers” dives deep on so many levels. As Kara is still struggling with Mon-El’s (Chris Wood) departure in the Season 2 finale, “Triggers” explores how a superhero like Supergirl deals with anxiety.

Psi manages to get the upper hand on Kara, whose biggest fear is revealed throughout the episode. It’s not often that superhero shows deal with what triggers the heroes on an emotional level. The way the writers handled it for Supergirl made “Triggers” one of the strongest hours in the season.

8 WORST: The Faithful (Episode 4)

In the fourth episode of Season 3, the series introduces a cult in “The Faithful.” We see one of Kara’s earliest rescues Thomas Orville (Chad Lowe) lead a cult that consists of people that the Girl of Steel has saved in the past.

But things get more messed up as “The Faithful” explores the cult’s foundation, where people have to put themselves in grave danger and be saved by Supergirl to join it. It’s never easy to see cults and Supergirl didn’t make it any easier as it was one of the most unsettling stories in the show’s history.

7 BEST: Dark Side of the Moon (Episode 20)

Presumed to have died when Krypton exploded, it turns out that Alura Zor-El (Erica Durance) actually survived. The twentieth episode, titled “Dark Side of the Moon” reveals that Alura, along with Argo City, had survived for all of these years.

This leads to Kara and Alura having a beautiful daughter-mother reunion while also exploring Argo City deeper. Aside from Kara and Mon-El finding Argo City as part of their mission to stop Reign, it’s the reunion between Kara and Alura that makes the episode stand out so much.

6 WORST: Reign (Episode 9)

The winter finale delivers the first showdown between Supergirl and Reign, as Sam has begun her transformation as a Worldkiller. While the two have an epic battle, the end results don’t feel accurate. Reign, in many ways, is basically the Doomsday in Kara’s story.

With Kara having to take on someone who is a literal Worldkiller, this should have been the show’s opportunity to present a “death and return of Supergirl” storyline. It was a missed opportunity to not conclude the winter finale with Kara actually dying and then being resurrected at some point in the second half of the season.

5 BEST: Fort Rozz (Episode 11)

It’s always fun whenever Kara has to team up with surprising allies, which is what happens in the eleventh episode. In “Fort Rozz”, Kara gangs up with Saturn Girl (Amy Jackson), the villainous Livewire (Brit Morgan), and Psi, as they travel to the prison to find a priestess who has important information about Reign.

For starters, we get a fun cameo by Superman and Superman II’s Sarah Douglas, who played Ursa in the films, as Jindah Kol Rozz. But the real fun is within the team-up between the four women. While Reign does sadly crash the mission, Livewire does make a heroic sacrifice that saves Kara that will never be forgotten.

4 WORST: Far From the Tree (Episode 3)

As Maggie Sawyer (Floriana Lima) was set to exit the series, the first five episodes of season three dealt a lot with her romance with Alex (Chyler Leigh). One of them was “Far From the Tree,” the third episode explored Maggie’s complicated relationship with her father Oscar (Carlos Bernard), who struggles with his daughter’s sexuality.

As empowering as it was to see Maggie confront her father and basically dismiss him out of her life, “Far From the Tree” is still problematic. For starters, when Oscar is talking about the difficulty of having moved to America, he brings up that a wall is being built to prevent Mexicans from coming in. While the real world is one story, in the Supergirl universe, President Marsdin (Lynda Carter) was never pursuing it. Another issue is that it seemed a bit late to do an episode about Maggie’s family life just as she was leaving the series.

3 BEST: Legion of Super-Heroes (Episode 10)

Following the mid-season finale, the winter premiere went deeper into the Legion of Super-Heroes. In the episode titled after the group, Jesse Rath makes his debut as Brainiac 5 and plays a part in saving Kara after her battle with Reign.

From Rath’s excellent introduction to Kara’s struggle inside her dreamlike state, it’s a solid follow-up. It becomes more about Kara than Supergirl which is a plus.

2 WORST: Not Kansas (Episode 21)

Arrow wasn’t the only DC series to tackle the topic of gun issues, with Supergirl also dedicating an episode to the subject. While Kara and her Super-Friends do still deal with Reign, the focus on the gun problem holds “Not Kansas” back big time.

Especially as it was one of the last three episodes of the season. It was really bad timing to deal with such a storyline that late in the season.

1 BEST: Midvale (Episode 6)

Following her breakup with Maggie, the sixth episode becomes one of the best Kara and Alex centered episodes of all time. But it’s not just Benoist and Leigh’s versions of the characters that we get to see, as “Midvale” is primarily set in 2007 and follows a young Kara (Izabela Vidovic) and Alex (Olivia Nikkanen) during their childhood.

It was compelling to see how different their sisterhood was compared to how it is today. But it also gives viewers insight into a big tragedy that Kara had to go through while growing up on Earth. “Midvale” also becomes a great reminder of how Supergirl really shines when its focus is on Kara and Alex’s sisterhood.

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