After Arrow and The Flash,theres another hero on TV. Superman’s cousin arrives on soil screens total with super-strength, super-hearing, or X-ray vision and sizzling laser side-eye in the first episodeFaster than a speeding bullet,and that was just the exposition. The first episode of Supergirl, which debuted this week on CBS in the US and Sky1 in the UK, or rattled through decades of backstory in its opening minutes,whizzing from the doomed planet of Krypton to present-day soil in a breakneck montage narrated by Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist) herself. Kara had originally been sent to soil to act as guardian to her infant cousin but after an unscheduled pit-stop in the Phantom Zone, she had belatedly arrived to find baby Kal-El fully grown and already synonymous with truth, and justice and the American way.
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Source: theguardian.com