If you read my Supergirl review from yesterday, then you know the basic setup of “Crisis on Earth-X”: Nazis from a parallel Earth crash Barry and Iris’s wedding, and the assembled heroes fight them. “Crisis on Earth-X, Part 3” picks up where Part 2 (as seen on Arrow) left off, with several of the heroes […]
Within comic book fan circles, superhero crossovers often get a bad rap. Annual DC Comics events like Doomsday Clock have become de rigueur, thereby robbing the crossover of its specialness. Thankfully, this hasn’t (yet) been a problem for the mini DC Universe set within a quartet of CW shows: Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, […]
In the “Streaming Wars,” it isn’t really clear which site is winning the battle, but it is pretty clear that Amazon is losing. While Netflix tends to get the most buzz, with shows like Stranger Things taking over the pop culture discourse for weeks at a time, Hulu has managed to grasp the brass ring in the […]
Episode titles are a funny thing. While their primary purpose is to explicate the primary theme or conflict of a given segment of television, they can also often serve as indicators of a show’s metaphorical trajectory. With that in mind, “Wake Up” feels like a rousing call to arms after what has largely been a […]
“eXodus,” the third episode of The Gifted, is the one that shows some of the limitations of the network TV format for an X-Men property. Still reeling from Reed Strucker’s arrest by Sentinel Services, his wife and children leave the safety of the Mutant Underground to find political help to release him. Meanwhile, Reed makes his own […]
Season 4 of The Flash has been a blast thus far, so it’s only fair that you get the occasional dud. Such is the case with “When Harry Met Harry…,” an episode whose title references a popular 80s romantic comedy but won’t have you screaming “YES!” in ecstasy. In fact, “When Harry Met Harry…” leaves […]
This season of Supergirl hasn’t been successful when focusing on present events, so why not experience a blast from the past? At least that’s the theory at work in the flashback episode “Midvale,” named after the town where Kara and Alex grew up. The Danvers sisters revisit the old burg so that Alex can lick […]
