In the cliffhanger for the midseason finale of The Flash, Barry fast forwards into the near future, where he sees his lady love Iris skewered by the villainous speed god Savitar. The midseason premiere episode “Borrowing Problems From The Future,” picks up right where that last episode left off with Barry having nightmares of Iris’s […]
After participating in the Invasion! crossover last week, The Flash picks up the plotlines that were already in progress and wraps them up somewhat neatly in this mid-season finale. We get the origin stories for Julian Albert/”Dr.” Alchemy and the vaguely Transformer-ish Savitar. Cisco continues to grapple with his grief over his brother’s death, while […]
The Flash has stumbled, both literally and metaphorically, this season, but apparently all it took was an alien invasion for the character (and the show) to get back on its feet. Although Monday night’s episode of Supergirl briefly alludes to it, this episode of The Flash officially kicks off “Heroes v Aliens,” the CW’s much-ballyhooed […]
For a series about a super-speed character, The Flash has often felt like it’s running in place this season. The time-travel machinations of the first few “Flashpoint” episodes have given way to uninspiring antagonists and half-cooked melodrama. With regards to the former, “Shade” presents a new shadowy villain for the Flash to fight. As the […]
LA Comic Con featured a number of notable guests, including Mike Colter and many others. Five cast members of The Flash TV show (on The CW) appeared at Stan Lee’s LA Comic Con in a discussion with Mike Zapcic and Ming Chen from the AMC TV show Comic Book Men. The two comic book men talked […]
This week’s episode of The Flash may be entitled “Monster” but to paraphrase the old saying: you shouldn’t judge an episode by its title. The monster-that-wasn’t (more on that later) is hardly the focus of the episode, let alone the most formidable opponent Barry Allen has to contend with. After last episode’s supervillain-centric focus, Julian […]
Last week’s episode of The Flash featured one primary metahuman antagonist, so the showrunners decided to up the stakes with a few villains from Flash’s Rogues Gallery. Thus “The New Rogues” features the small-screen debut of two of the Flash’s most venerable foes: Mirror Master and The Top. Like most folk with powers on The […]
After the timeline-shattering shenanigans of the past two episodes, a return to (relative) normalcy was in order for The Flash. The primary antagonist for “Magenta” is a Goth girl who can manipulate metal—not exactly on the level of Reverse Flash or Zoom in terms of formidable adversaries. Instead, the focus of this episode is interpersonal […]
The law of unintended consequences applies to speedsters as much, if not more so, than us regular non-metahumans. This is the moral, for lack of a better term, that lies at the center of “Paradox,” the second episode of The Flash’s third season. Audiences are so used to happy Hollywood time-travel stories, like Back to […]
Season 2 of The Flash concluded with Barry Allen in a literal race against time to prevent Eobard Thawne (aka the Reverse Flash) from murdering Barry’s mother, Nora. Season 3 of The Flash picks up from where the last season left off, as Barry finds himself in what Thawne terms a “Flashpoint” timeline. For DC […]
