A very big improvement over last week:

Positives:

---Supergirl has faced pretty bland and forgettable villains up until this week. This week, they brought Livewire (Leslie Willis) out of Superman: The Animated Series and the result was superb as Britt Morgan really imbues the character with a true sense of menace, entitlement, and nastiness.

---Leslie Willis' somewhat explicit anti-Supergirl rant was uncomfortable to listen to and the reason this episode garnered a TV-14 rating. At the same time, it did bring home the type of junk that many women are subjected to and hits common ground which every decent person agrees on that this is not something young women should be subjected to, but sadly are.

---We really get a chance to further explore Cat Grant's character. Overall, she's probably the most interesting character in the show and we get some great insights into her. Her guilt over the creation of Livewire as well as her protectiveness of Supergirl are explored. Leslie Willis points out that Cat was critical of Supergirl in her magazine piece, but the difference is that Cat was trying to push Supergirl to be better while Leslie was just being nasty. Calista Flockheart is really doing a great job playing the character. I'm beginning to suspect that knows or suspects Kara is Supergirl.

---I loved some of the lines during the climatic battle with Livewire with Cat responding to a lame quip with, "Congratulations, you have the wit of a You Tube comment." And Supergirls, "Oh, ,shut up, you mean girl."

---Family drama is fairly good as we're introduced to Kara's Foster mother and the messed up though realistic family dynamics.

---Witt's explanation of what he was thankful for was very touching and provided some great insight. It's a bit sad since he's obviously attracted to Kara but he's being written as the nice guy who doesn't get the girl who is way out of his league.

The Bad:

---The episode was aired a week earlier than expected due to the Paris attacks and as such there's things in there that don't make sense with Witt saying he was glad to be dealing with metaphorical bombs for once and the fact that Lucy Lane was more fully introduced in that episode which would have made sense of why she could drag James Olsen off to Ohi. I get why this airing was done (the episode was supposed to episode is set for this week) but I hope when DVD releases are done this is put in proper plot order.

---Speaking of Mr. Olsen, this show has the weirdest relationship dynamic I've seen on television with him and Lucy Lane. He moves all the way to National City to get away from her, clearly likes Kara, but is somehow compelled to go out with Lucy. You get the idea that if he knew Morse Code, he'd be blinking it to send a message requesting help.

---The plot point of Kara's foster father having died under mysterious circumstances and the foster mother suspecting Hank Henshaw was not the best handled or set up portion of this episode. The whole "Mentor figure responsible for parent's death" is cribbed from the Flash and the set up would have worked better had we not been getting, "Something's weird with" flashes of Red eyes every week. Still, the plot does have potential for some nice surprises later on.

Overall: At last, Supergirl gets a memorable villain and we get more insight into Cat Grant and Kara's family life. This is probably the best episode of Supergirl yet. 8/10