'Supergirl's Season 5 Will Be Their 'Black Mirror' Season

Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) looks ready to protect the city in this first look pic from the show’s upcoming season five.

In a recent interview with EW, showrunners Jessica Queller and Robert Rovner opened up about the theme you’ll see in the new season.

“It’s our Black Mirror season,” Jessica shared.

Robert adds, “What we’re looking at is how technology is impacting the way people engage and giving them an escape not to engage. It seems like nowadays, everyone is kind of on their phones or not really present, and so we wanted to speak to that and kind of how it might be hard to live in the ugliness of what’s going on, and how a character like Kara can try and help us overcome that. It speaks to a lot of the stuff the characters will be going through.”

Melissa also shared that “this season’s going to be a fight for Lena’s soul.”

Supergirl is back on Sunday, October 6th @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW.