The super-granddaughter who wanted to save her dog

The hope and luminosity of James Gunn's latest film have been left behind. If Superman (2025) bet on the optimistic inspiration of believing in humanity, in Supergirl we are met with a stark portrait of trauma and the thirst for revenge. Kara's excuse for quitting alcoholism is her encounter with Ruthye, an orphaned teenager who needs help to execute her family's killer. This tragedy awakens the childhood memories of a Supergirl who is the polar opposite of what we knew until now: a disaster on legs who, despite responding to normative beauty standards (she is blonde, slim, and beautiful), is not built to be sexualized. Kara is more of a tomboy with depressive traits who has a single concern: the well-being of her dog Krypto.Dark, violent and with an excess of dispensable subplots, Supergirl —which takes the essence and main characters from the comic miniseries Supergirl: The Tomorrow Woman—, is conceived as an interplanetary western with cyberpunk aesthetics. Among multiform creatures and decadent worlds, what stands out most about Gillespie's proposal, beyond an unquestionable visual and sound quality, is the growth journey of two girls who accompany each other on this path to maturity. Growing up doesn't mean accumulating years, but facing the obstacles that life has in store for us. And if it's with company, all the better.