A super villain.

• Author: Shackford, Scott
• Position: Briefly Noted

Supergirl (CBS), one of this TV season's many adaptations of comic book settings, feels like a feminist riff on Superman for millennials. Supergirl fights evil space aliens, including malicious Kryptonians, just like Superman. She works at a newspaper, just like Clark Kent (except her boss is a woman). Jimmy Olsen works alongside her.

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She even has her own sinister businessman to fight, but he's not Lex Luthor. His name is Maxwell Lord. The television version of Lord is a Randian inventor who is deeply distrustful of government authority and believes people need to...