In the new series, Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) is a teenage girl who finds Starman’s cosmic staff hidden in her garage and decides to pair it with her talent as a gymnast and her generally heroic personality to become a whole vigilante for good.

Wilson is one of a cadre of well-known actors in the show and it’s the first thing I noticed that separated Stargirl from the other CW series it will share a channel with.

Stargirl , featuring people like Wilson, Amy Smart as Courtney’s mom, and Joel McHale as Starman, feels decidedly more cinematic.

Characters like Brainwave, Tigress, and Solomon fricking Grundy tear apart a mansion as they battle Starman, Hourman, and Doctor Fate.

Then Courtney finds the cosmic staff, beats up a few bullies by accident, and realizes that saving lives and fighting crime might be a better extracurricular than cheerleading.

The kind of inoffensive drama that will appeal to tweens and teens, not terrify younger kids, and not bore parents to tears.