Here's what I love about Supergirl so far: Sure, there are hints of romance, but this show is mostly about Kara’s platonic relationships with the other women in her life. We see Kara (Melissa Benoist) interact with her mother, her boss, and her adopted sister. Soon — spoiler alert — we’ll see how she handles a female villain.Before we get to the meat of the story, there’s a prologue explaining how Kara got to Earth. She was sent to protect her cousin, Kal-El, a.k.a. Superman, but the destruction of the planet Krypton marooned her in the Phantom Zone, meaning she landed on Earth after Kal-El had already grown up and become Superman. She was supposed to be the older, wiser Kryptonian. Instead, she's still a tween, and he's already a hero. She goes to live with the Danvers family, and in turn gets an adoptive sister, Alex (Chyler Leigh).When we catch up with Kara in the present day, her problems are less Kryptonite and more confidence gap . Assuming that Earth is good with just one super-person, Kara has decided to work for a woman with more earthly powers: media mogul Cat Grant, played by Calista Flockhart doing her best Miranda Priestly. In the CatCo office, Kara puts her skills to mundane use, anticipating Cat's arrival with her enhanced hearing. Why Kara doesn’t warm up Cat’s latte with her heat vision, I don’t know. If I’m ever a fictional assistant, I will remember that coffee beverages intended for demanding female bosses need to be scalding hot. Kara is frustrated with the futility of her job and the unfortunate realities of the media business. Cat is downsizing the Tribune, because National City doesn't have a Superman to help sell papers. "Go find me a hero, Kara," Cat says sarcastically, but prophetically.Speaking of Superman, there's a new art director at CatCo who is a close personal friend of the "big guy:" James — don't call him Jimmy — Olsen (Mehcad Brooks). Kara and James have an instant connection. Kara is impressed that he knows her cousin, and he is clearly onto something about her. My Romantic Interest Bat Signal is on high alert for these two (wrong superhero, I know). Meanwhile, Kara’s work buddy, IT guy Winn (Jeremy Jordan), clearly has a crush on her, but this being television, our heroine is oblivious to the perfectly adorable Winn’s romantic advances. Instead, she tells him she has an online date.You know what makes a bad date even worse? Being able to hear the awful dude who is supposed to be out with you hitting on the waitress. But Kara doesn’t sulk for long. When she learns of a news report that the very plane her sister is on is experiencing engine failure, she springs to action. Kara may have trouble asserting herself at work, but she shows no hesitation here. She’s almost gleeful, given the circumstances. She saves the plane, but seals her fate when she stands on its wing, letting the world get a glimpse of her.Kara doesn’t really mind that her secret is out, though. She's impressed with herself and downright excited to see TV reports about her deeds. But Alex shows up and isn't exactly ebullient or even grateful that Kara saved her life. Instead, she scolds Kara for exposing herself to the world.Cat, on the other hand, is ecstatic about the presence of a superhero in National City because it’s good for business. Feeling the need to share her secret with someone other than her sister, Kara goes to the roof to tell Winn, who promptly becomes her Edna Mode . And voilà! After a few costume misfires — um, no midriff, thank you — Kara is off to fight petty crime.Kara is thwarted, however, by the Department of Extranormal Operations, a government agency that employs — surprise! — Alex. Kara is hurt that her sister hid the true nature of her work from her, and hits Alex where it hurts the most. She implies that Alex only got her job because she had Kara for an adopted sister. Given Kara's own professional anxiety, she must know how this will devastate Alex.The DEO's man-in-charge, Hank Henshaw (David Harewood), isn’t exactly a villain, but he’s certainly not one of Kara’s cheerleaders. There are, however, serious bad guys out there: namely, a bunch of intergalactic criminals, who were locked up in Fort Rozz, Krypton's maximum security prison. Fort Rozz was in the Phantom Zone with Kara, and somehow got free when she did. The Fort Rozz outlaws are behind the nearly-crashed plane, and they are especially pissed at Kara because her mom, Alura, was the judge that put them all away.