Hollywood never met a left-wing message it didn’t like.  And increasingly, Tinseltown is severely marring its shows with inescapable proselytizing.  Universal mores have been exchanged for scripted lines drawn in the sand via heavy-hitting statements, usually involving the exaltation of leftists and/or the denigration of conservatives.  But sometimes, Hollywood is happy just to vilify the entire country.  Hence, the latest episode of the CW’s Supergirl, which has become a cluttered, out-of-control messagefest.

In Monday’s installment, Supergirl’s lesbian sister, Alex, has a bridal shower with her fiancee, Maggie.  Maggie’s estranged Mexican immigrant father — who kicked her out of the house when she was 14 — shows up, only to leave in disgust halfway through the shower.  The following confrontation ensues:

Maggie:  You're just gonna walk out?  After all this time, that's it?

Rodas:  I can't do this.

Maggie:  Can't do what?  Tell me, please.  What exactly have I done that is so offensive to you?

Rodas:  You spit in my face.

Maggie:  I spit in your face?  For loving somebody.  I can't, I don't understand.  I don't get it.

Gay character?  Locked and loaded.  Moving on…

Rodas:  I came to this country at nine years old.  At eleven, I was working in a factory.

Maggie:  Yes, I know. Yeah.

Mexican immigrant, front and center; all systems go:

Rodas:  Do you?  Do you know I was the only Mexicano working alongside a bunch of white boys?  Do you know that they would wait for me at night by the road, and laugh and call me wetback, and kick me 'til my ribs were broken?

Takeaway:  Mexican immigrants are brave, and whites are evil racists.  Because as everyone knows, it’s an every-day thing for white people to wait at night by the road so they can break Mexicans’ ribs; a common occurrence, really.  

However, do the writers understand how long it takes broken ribs to heal?  If his ribs were constantly broken, he would never have worked a day at the factory.  Notwithstanding:

Maggie: Dad what does this have to do—

Rodas:  With you being a lesbian?  I worked...to win their respect.  Those same boys, when they grew up, elected me their sheriff.  I endured for my children...so that you would never have to face that kind of hatred.  So that you would belong.

Maggie:  I am accepted for who I am.  The world is different now.

Rodas:  [Laughs sarcastically] They're building a wall to keep us out because in their minds, we are nothing but rapists and murderers.  The only thing they hate more than a Mexicano is a homosexual.  The world is not different, my dear.  Look.  You can live any way you please.  But don't ask me to witness it.

Conclusion?  Mexican immigrants are honorable men with integrity; lesbians are brave women; and everyone would be okay if not for the sinister, violent white people.  Oh, and if not for America:  our country wants a wall — not for security, but just to keep out all Mexicans.  That’s what we dream about, when we’re not too busy hating the gays.

Supergirl’s grim portrayal of the world comes as something of a surprise, given the show’s recent triumphant election of a Hillary Clinton character as Madame President.  But I guess somehow, a supervillain Donald Trump is still lurking, masterminding his racist wall.  If that weren’t enough, the show’s new opening includes the statement that Supergirl is a “refugee” on planet Earth.  I suppose the addition was just in case there weren’t enough messages in the gumbo of leftist militancy that is this wreck of a show.

There was a time when entertainment was simply about that very notion — entertaining.  But the Left has declared war, and it's waging its battles in every form of media, from news networks to movies to television series.  Entertainment is no longer its own virtue. That antiquated idea has been supplanted by political activism.  The result is a duller world; the result is a loss of simple pleasures; and sometimes — as in the case of Supergirl — the result is a really crappy TV show.