Last week’s Arrow review (a pair of reviews, technically) centered on one idea: Change is in the air, both in Star City…
Star City’s a metropolis in flux, in both the present and the future. Some of these developments are small, some major;…
The best part of “Emerald Archer” is the first 15 seconds. After the familiar CW intro, we get not a “Previously, on Arr…
There are bones one could pick with “Past Sins,” a tight to-do list of an hour that manages to get shit done and be…
You could be forgiven for expecting Arrow’s midseason premiere—any midseason premiere, really, but especially those of…
The CW’s annual Arrowverse crossover episodes are always a bit of a tough needle to thread. The show’s writers need to…
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…
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