Supergirl: The House of L

"The House of L" is the sixteenth episode of season four of the superhero fantasy series Supergirl and the eighty-first episode of the series overall. It was directed by Carl Seaton with a screenplay written by Dana Horgan and Eric Carrasco. It first aired on the CW Network on Sunday, March 24th, 2019 at 8:00 pm.

Notes & Trivia

 * Supergirl was created by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler, and Andrew Kreisberg based on the comic book superhero featured in titles published by DC Comics.


 * This episode is rated TV-14.


 * This episode is production code number T13.21216.


 * This episode had a viewership of 1.122 million people, which is up by .153 from the previous episode. It rated 0.3% in the 18-49 viewing demographic.


 * Actor David Harewood is given a "With..." credit qualifier in this episode.


 * Actor Jon Cryer is given a "Special guest star" credit in this episode.


 * This episode largely consists of flashbacks revealing information regarding Lex Luthor's activities for the past year. It is wrapped inside of a framing sequence in the present, which involves a super-powered Lex bashing Supergirl over the head with the Daily Planet globe.


 * This episode reveals that the Kasnian Supergirl's given name is Privet. The episode further reveals that she is a genetic duplication of Supergirl, created by Supergirl's exposure to the Harun-El.

Allusions

 * The title of this episode is taken from the phrase "House of El", which is the Kryptonian family lineage of Kal-El, aka Superman. "El" is replaced with "L" to reflect Lex Luthor for this episode.


 * The gathering of Team Luthor is similar to the character dynamics established in Superman: The Movie and its sequel, Superman II. This include the characters of Lex Luthor, Eve Teschmacher, and Otis.


 * The Soviet Supergirl adopts the alias of Linda Lee in this episode. Linda Lee was an alias of Kara Zor-El in the DC Comics titles.


 * The scene with a hologram of Lex Luthor playing chess in his prison cell is a wink to a similar seen from the movie Superman II.


 * One of the books that Lex Luthor gives to the Kasnian Supergirl is The Great Gatsby, which is a 1925 romance novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Quotes

 * Eve Teschmacher: Wow. Nice prison you got here.
 * Lex Luthor: It's for conjugal visits. But still, after this, it's back to concrete and iron.
 * Eve Teschmacher: Sounds lonely.
 * Lex Luthor: Stryker's is a petri dish. Bottle city. I've even managed to teach some of the inmates chess. I like mentoring.
 * Eve Teschmacher: It's a waste. You're a once-in-a-generation mind, and the only man standing between us and total annihilation.