A great deal can happen in seven years. In its seven seasons on The CW, Arrow has seen a lot of villains, storylines,…
On the whole, this isn’t a great season of Arrow. There are too many detours, too many balls dropped, more than the…
An Arrow villain has had it, well and truly had it. He is done. He loathes Oliver Queen and wants to scorch the earth…
Let us say this of “Docket No. 11-19-41-73”: the people in it behave like people, the story has an arc, and I mostly und…
Early in “Shifting Allegiances,” there’s a sequence that works. It feels self-assured, carefully planned, and like the…
The 20th episode of Arrow’s fifth season, “Underneath,” did something a little unusual. Adrian Chase detonated an EMP,…
There’s no shortage of things to appreciate about “Fundamentals.” Like last week’s Diggle/Queen showdown, this is an Arr…
The “why does everyone around you die” trope, which sometimes takes the form of “why does everyone I love die,” is…
On a show with a life this long you’re sometimes going to lose track of things. Who’s mad at who now, and why, and…
Why does Dinah crush the bug that Rene planted on Oliver? Those are reusable. It’s not like she plucked it off of…
When Michael Emerson says “Mr. Queen,” it sounds nefarious. When he says “your son,” it’s terrifying. When he says…
This week, Arrow would like to remind you that it’s the dark one. In that, mission accomplished. This is an hour that…
The longer a show runs, the less likely it is to well and truly surprise you. This isn’t a hard and fast rule, and it…
“You guys don’t look like a Chechnyan death squad!”
Here’s the short and vaguely irritated version of the review that follows below: Oh great, Oliver’s trust and emotional…
There’s television, and then there’s “event” television. It’s the kind of thing you’re supposed to watch right when it…
“Thanksgiving” sure has plenty of stuffing. (I’m sorry.) Here, if you’ll allow it, is a brief list of some of the…
Flashbacks have been a part of Arrow’s DNA from the very beginning. At times they’ve been vital, at others,…