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Supergirl – Season 1, Episode 5 How Does She Do It?

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While Kara is baby-sitting Cat's son, she must also protect the city from a series of bombings; Lucy Lane (Jenna Dewan Tatum) tries to rekindle her relationship with James.
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Supergirl — Season 1, Episode 5

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What "How Does She Do It?" lacks in subtlety it more than makes up for in candor and sincerity, saving it from completely drowning in its overly saccharine sentiments.

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Melissa Benoist

Kara Danvers

Calista Flockhart

Cat Grant

Chyler Leigh

Alex Danvers

Mehcad Brooks

James Olsen

David Harewood

Hank Henshaw

Jeremy Jordan

Winslow "Winn" Schott
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Joshua Rivera New York Magazine/Vulture 07/26/2018
2/5
Over at CatCo, Cat Grant is back and... Kara asks her the question - "How do you do it?" And the scene turns into a grand meditation into whether or not a woman can have it all, which is apparently what this entire episode was about? Go to Full Review Chancellor Agard Entertainment Weekly 07/25/2018
Pro tip: Don't have one of your characters say the question driving your episode is stupid and annoying. Go to Full Review Allison Shoemaker CBR 07/20/2018
Luckily, we've got "Jessica Jones" for nuance, and can take "Supergirl" for what it is: an earnest, winning, well-intentioned hour of television. Go to Full Review Paul Dailly TV Fanatic 07/31/2018
4.5/5
Now that we're getting into the meat of the story, I'm getting more invested in all of the characters. Go to Full Review Andrew Dyce Screen Rant 07/27/2018
It was a tough step off the path that seemed to be forming, but thankfully, the episode originally planned to keep the momentum going did just that - while possibly pulling back the curtain on this season's - this show's? - 'big bad.' Go to Full Review Colin Campbell Polygon 07/27/2018
Supergirl may be a formulaic action show, but it offers a cast of characters with enough variety and nuance to hand us a fistful of narrative threads. It's a credit to the writers that watching two episodes out of order really did feel like a disjunct. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Episode Info

Synopsis While Kara is baby-sitting Cat's son, she must also protect the city from a series of bombings; Lucy Lane (Jenna Dewan Tatum) tries to rekindle her relationship with James.
Director
Thor Freudenthal
Executive Producer
Greg Berlanti, Allison Adler, Andrew Kreisberg, Sarah Schechter
Screenwriter
Yahlin Chang, Ted Sullivan
Network
CBS
Rating
TV-PG (V)
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Action
Original Language
English
Release Date
Nov 23, 2015
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