"I'm Supergirl and I'm a refugee" | TV

"My name is Kara Zor-El ... and I am a refugee on this planet." So begins each episode of the fourth season of Supergirl. Clear declaration of intentions of a series that, despite having embraced from its first episode the most youthful facet and colorful of the superheroes (or maybe thanks to it), he has never stopped sending his personal message about the real world.

Always leave, of course, those who say that family series of pure entertainment should not get into these berenjenales. They forget that ever since the superheroes are superheroes they always talked about the world, between smacks and smacks. Captain America premiered in a comic book punching Adolf Hitler on the cover and nobody ever escaped that the X Patrol it was no more than a reflection of the struggle for civil rights that African-Americans took to the streets in the 1960s. Chris Claremont wrote to his Xavier and Magneto as Marthin Luther King and Malcolm X. The message of "persecuted and hated" for being different was sometimes even machacon. Struggles that, on the other hand, are as human and recognizable as global. The good, the equality, the marginalization ... Thus it sent messages to achieve a better world and, let's not deceive ourselves, because it is what sells. Because capitalism is always the first to appropriate the icons of the struggle to benefit them. It can be called fashion, or simply be aware of what the public wants to see and know how to sell it, know how to transfer to culture what is discussed in a bar (or in networks) and talk about society on screen. Because if the world changes, the series on the air and the comics on the shelves has to do with it.

The luck is that Supergirl it does well. The aliens are for the series the reflection of the immigrants, and the news crosses without looking for it. The week in which a right-wing activist sent bombs to politicians and the media, the CW series (in Spain on HBO) featured an extremist and anti-alien coalition that draws on the comments on the Internet and shouted from "The Earth First" (which he drinks from Trump's slogan "America first" and before the Ku Klux Klan supremacist group, as Spike Lee recalls in Infiltrated in the KKlan) while dismissing to the president of the USA upon discovering that she was originally from another planet.

This is not the only fight Supergirl, that from the beginning was by definition a song to feminism and sorority, not only for the sex of the heroine, but in the behavior of her boss played by Calista Flockhart and the role of her sister, whose search for identity and exit of the wardrobe has been a fundamental part in the frames (and even engine to aspire to). That's why this year there are not only aliens in the main team, but also a new apprentice (performed by Nicole Maines) that turns out to be transsexual. And that, while carrying his gender identity flag, he finds it difficult to open up to his newfound powers. In a universe of giant gorillas, parallel lands about to explode and killer robots, everything is details. There are no complexes in a series like Legends of Tomorrow starring a couple ninja / bisexual clone and having as a partner another charming British bisexual gallant specialized in dark arts. In such a world a discussion about whether the protagonist of Doctor Who is a woman or man sounds inane.

Luckily here we are aware that everything will end well, that good always prevails. Blacks and whites are much more visible. And, if something characterizes Supergirl, like her cousin Superman, it is her irremediable optimism, that goal to give back to the adoptive world that has raised them all that this has given her. Equality, kindness and love. Controversial concepts in 2018.