Ranking Every 2017 Comic Book TV Show Worst To Best
10. Supergirl
CW
Supergirl may have started out life as a CBS show, but it's very much a CW series today (and a truly fantastic one at that).
Focusing on Superman's cousin Kara as she engages in her own brand of super heroics in National City, Supergirl had a fantastic 2017, exemplified best by the mind-meltingly good 'Crisis on Earth-X'. It has plenty of heart, action and drama, and Melissa Benoist's performance as the title character anchors the series well.
It comes as something of a relief too, actually. The Super-fam - so to speak - have been without a truly genuine live action adaptation for some time, and Supergirl goes about fixing that each and every time it airs. Not since Christopher Reeve donned the red and blue has the license been handled so well, and while other CW properties may continue to lag behind, Supergirl flies the flag of the House of El like nobody's business.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
