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2 on The Flash 8x15 Review - Stuck and StillYou can't always know when you're setting yourself up to get dunked on, but sometimes it feels like you should be able to see the shot coming from a mile away. So how did The Flash end up with another Still Force episode that feels like it does nothing to move the plot forward? Spoilers follow for The…
Funerals are tough in real life, and they're tough to write. It's easy to slip into corny and saccharine aphorisms, leaving the event feeling hollow. This week, Team Flash is trying to figure out how to say goodbye to their fallen friend ahead of her funeral. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 8, Episode 14, "Funeral…
Across eight seasons of television, it's inevitable that the cast of a show will change. Throughout the Flash, we've said goodbye to a whole bunch of allies and enemies. This week, it's time to let a member of Team Flash go. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 8, Episode 13, "Death Falls." "Death Falls" Team Flash…
The big bad for The Flash's second arc of Season 8 revealed itself last week: Deathstorm. The otherworldly entity is leaving charred corpses all over Central City, and seems to have an eye for Caitlin Snow, despite saying that it is not, in fact, her late husband Ronnie. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 8, Episode 12,…
This season's focus on Caitlin Snow continues this week right where it left off: with Caitlin facing down the black flame, which is talking to her using words spoken last by Ronnie, the husband she lost twice--first in the show's premiere, and then again when he, as Firestorm, flew into a singularity to save everyone. Spoilers follow…
With Barry Allen having two father figures in his life--Henry Allen and Joe West--The Flash often leans toward stories about fatherhood. This episode, it's time for dads to step aside as the Snow family reconvenes to fight the Black Flame and Iris helps her new phantom friend find her birth mother. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 8,…
After a couple of surprisingly solid episodes, can The Flash keep the streak--pun intended--going? The focus is once again off of the Flash himself, shifted instead to Chester P. Runk, as Team Flash tries to find who or whatever is responsible for the charred corpses appearing around Central City. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 8, Episode 9,…
When Barry watched his father get carted off to prison for a crime he didn't commit, it forever changed him, sending him toward being a Crime Scene Investigator so that he could learn how to prove his father--and other people falsely accused--innocent. This week, Barry gets back to basics. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 8, Episode…
Sometimes, all it takes to make a good superhero story is a simple puzzle and a dilemma. After the previous eyeroller of an episode, The Flash is back with an episode that shows the power of a simple bottle episode. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 8, Episode 7, "Lockdown." "Lockdown" When a criminal invades the CCPD, Barry…
The Flash kicked off Season 8 with an imperfect but thrilling five-part series that pitted Barry against his long-time nemesis the Reverse-Flash, in one of their most fun encounters since the show's very first season. After a long break to finish up some of the other shows, The Flash is now back with an episode focused…
After a disappointing start to this eighth season of The Flash, the last two episodes turned my expectations on their head, putting together a great Flash/Reverse-Flash face-off that reminded me of what a great villain Reverse-Flash is, how good Tom Cavanagh is at the role, and that relationship enhances almost every other relationship on the show…
The Flash has been struggling for years now, and I've become increasingly hostile to the show in recent years, grasping for any little shining moment amid an increasingly murky collection of ill-conceived storylines. But The Flash is all about the impossible being possible, and yes--after years--The Flash is good. At least for a few episodes. Spoilers follow for The…
I should've seen it before, and now I'm conflicted. The Flash is playing with one of the biggest parts of the Flash: Rebirth comics, using it in another context. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 8, Episode 3, "Armageddon, Part 3." "Armageddon, Part 3" One of the problems with The Flash is that even if it has a good…
The Armageddon mini-series is meant to be a sort of crucible for Barry. After fighting off Mirror Master and Reverse-Flash once again, everything seems to be going well for him. He's running faster and fighting smarter, and keeping his life in check. And then Despero shows up to kill Barry, he explains, to save Earth.…
The first season of The Flash felt like a revelation. After years of Arrow tiptoeing around comic books, The Flash had its main character fighting Reverse-Flash and accessing the Speed Force. Since then, though, the show has struggled with how to keep its hero and villains interesting. This year, the showrunners are trying something different. The Flash Season 8…
If you have a favorite speedster from the CW's The Flash, there's a good chance they appear in this episode. With the exception of a couple extremely dead villains from the past, just about everyone who trails lightning behind them is around for the season 7 finale. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 7, Episode 18, "Heart…
We have something here in the upper Midwest called the Minnesota Goodbye, which is where you say you're going to leave, and then take at least half an hour to do so, spending a solid fifteen minutes standing by the door with your coat on, sweating because you're wearing a coat rated for -30 degrees…
There's something comforting about the right kind of cameo on a show. A beloved character brought back, given ample screen time, and something to do. The Flash botched it hard earlier this year with Tom Cavanaugh's final appearance, but a guest spot from David Ramsey is another chance for the show to succeed. Spoilers follow for The Flash…
It's hard to tell sometimes if I notice certain things because I review television shows every week or because certain shows are much worse at disguising those things than they used to be. There's a good way to work around an actor being away for an episode, and this ain't it. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season…
The Flash has been struggling for some time now with making its plots work. They sound good in theory but end up convoluted and uninteresting. Right now, it seems like The Flash is shifting to character-focused episodes. Spoilers follow for The Flash Season 7, Episode 13, "Masquerade." "Masquerade" It's a post-Cisco world, and the members of Team…
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