Supergirl To Address Immigration Controversy In Upcoming Episodes
One of the most controversial issues of the day is getting an airing -- albeit one steeped in [...]
One of the most controversial issues of the day is getting an airing -- albeit one steeped in metaphor -- on Supergirl in the coming weeks.
On tonight's episode of Supergirl, titled "Homecoming," Jeremiah Danvers found himself face-to-face with his family again -- but the things he did in their name didn't sit too well with his daughter Alex.
As it turns out, Lillian Luthor was more right than wrong when she told Kara and Alex earlier this season that Jeremiah had become "something else" and that they might not know him as well as they thought they did when he finally returned to them. The character, played by Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman's Man of Steel Dean Cain, is a Cadmus loyalist who used his proximity to Supergirl and Alex to weasel his way into the Department of Extranormal Operations and rob the agency blind.
His plan hasn't been revealed in its entirety, but it was made clear during a meeting with Lillian Luthor and Hank Henshaw that it's not as brutal as the original Luthor plan of killing all the aliens she can. There appears to be something in the vein of mass deportation in the offing, with a giant spacecraft of some kind revealed at the end of the episode.
(That, of course, would match the name of next week's episode, which is "Exodus.")
"[Jeremiah's plan] is a shimmy on Lilian's desire to rid the earth of aliens and it's an interesting debate in the next episode between Jeremiah and Alex if his plan is any more humane," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said at a recent media event. "And some of the talking points in the episode, I think, are reflective of the current debate in our world about dealing with immigrants, which, you know, we are very conscious of and wanted to speak to that."
From the time the series introduced the idea of an alien registry and alien amnesty, parallels have been drawn to immigration issues -- and with those issues taking center stage following the U.S. Presidential election, it likely seemed inevitable to the showrunners that they would have to revisit those parallels again.
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Supergirl airs Monday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
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