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11 on The Arrowverse Mostly Sucked, and that's OkayThe Arrowverse is officially over. It technically ended with The Flash last year, but Tyler Hoechlin and Bitsie Tulloch as Superman & Lois were a leftover from all of that, even if the network said that their characters weren't connected to the Arrowverse. So now, with the end of Superman & Lois, it's over. It mostly sucked, but…
This last week saw the cancelation of Batwoman and Legends of Tomorrow, after 3 and 7 seasons, respectively. It raises a tough question: Is the Arrowverse dead? And then there were two... Let's look at the facts. The shows that are explicitly part of the Arrowverse include Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black…
There was a time when the Arrowverse was, for me, the most exciting thing on TV. It was weird and ambitious. It was silly and comic-booky. Fresh off of Deathstroke on Arrow, the Flash started boldly with Reverse-Flash. Crossovers grew in size and scope with Invasion! and then Crisis on Earth-X. Then, Crisis on Infinite…
How do you balance taking a character through a believable arc versus the audience's tolerance for negative characters and depressing relationships? This is something the CW has struggled with before, and it seems so far like Black Lightning is struggling with it this year. Black Lightning has consistently been one of the more interesting shows among the…
Despite being a show about a family of superheroes who live in a town that was literally occupied by a military force for months on end, Black Lightning has managed to stay pretty grounded compared to most of the other DC superhero shows that air on the CW network. It makes sense, then, that the…
The CWVerse is set to lose a second show this year as Black Lightning will draw to a close with season 4. It has already been announced that Supergirl will be ending with season 6, and now Black Lightning will be joining her. “When we first started the Black Lighting journey, I knew that Jefferson…
The CW has announced when we will finally see some new episodes of its various series that have been delayed due to the pandemic. The new schedule is being called "mid-season" despite there really not being a fall season this year. Jan. 8 will be the kickoff, but the first CWverse show won't return until…
While countries may slowly be lifting coronavirus restrictions, film and television productions still have a long way to go. That's clearly evident in the new schedule released by The CW for the upcoming season. On Wednesday, The CW released its 2020/2021 television season schedule, and it's very much about 2021. When the fall season rolls…
I never thought I'd say the sentence "I really enjoyed Wayne Brady as a villain." But here we are at the end of Black Lightning Season 3. After an explosive finale that ties up a ton of loose ends, I can say that this season was the best yet and that I'm deeply curious to…
"Wayne Brady makes for a compelling villain" is not a sentence I ever thought I'd write. It's 2020, though, and everything is weird; so here we are. Wayne Brady makes for a compelling villain. The penultimate episode of Black Lightning's third season brings as many dangling plotlines together as it can and gets us ready for…
When I try to think back through this week's episode of Black Lightning, it feels like very little happened. That's probably because last week was a banger of an episode with a huge battle that took up most of the runtime and introduced an awesome new villain played by, incredibly, Wayne Brady. This week is the…
Good things come to those who wait. After two episodes of setup, Black Lightning and his team finally drop in on the Markovians for a super-powered battle that doesn't skimp on special effects or fight choreography. The rescue mission doesn't go quite as planned, but it doesn't disappoint, either. And we get a pretty great…
Black Lightning set up a clear conflict early into the season: the Markovian army wants to capture powerful metahumans and turn them into tools for war. The A.S.A. wants to stop them but plans to weaponize the metahumans for themselves in the process. In the middle is the town of Freeland. The ASA has been…
After a season-long occupation, Freeland's resistance started fighting back last week and hit the ASA hard. There's still work to do, though, and the team is ready to get to it if only they could start communicating with each other. Beware spoilers for Black Lightning Season 3, Episode 11, "The Book of Markovia: Chapter Two: Lynn's Addiction."…
After a long holiday break, Black Lightning's back. We catch up with him as he returns from his time hanging out with some kid named The Flash. Having watched his family burned away by anti-matter, he's more than a little excited to see that when the Spectre restored the universe, Jefferson's family came with it.…
We had to wait an entire month for it, but the Crisis on Infinite Earths has ended, and the two-hour finale, which encompassed Arrow and the Legends of Tomorrow, didn't disappoint as it did exactly what a DC Crisis does before giving the heroes time to wrap up the story. In case you hadn't guessed,…
The CW is wasting no time in pushing out its renewals for fall 2020. As of Tuesday, the network has renewed all of its current DC-based shows. Altogether The CW renewed the following 13 series: Arrow is drawing to a conclusion in the next few weeks and is not part of this renewal slate. According…
As I dig around through forums and social media to see what people are saying about Crisis on Infinite Earths, I see all these posts about how it sucks, it's terrible, it's trash. But the truth is that Crisis is its own small miracle of writing, scheduling, licensing, acting, and special effects. This isn't a…
Black Lightning the character is part of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, but the Black Lightning show itself isn't. Despite that, the show found its own way to partake in the festivities. As the barrier between multiverse worlds blurs and wanes, Jennifer Pierce finds herself looking at doppelgangers from other worlds, where they were forced to…
The Arrowverse now totals 30 seasons of television, if you include the on-going shows and the Legends of Tomorrow season starting in early 2020. It can be tough to know where to start if you haven't been paying attention. It might be too late to catch up before Crisis on Infinite Earths begins, but the shows…
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