They’re leaving a lot of time on the clock. That was my first reaction when Oliver finally took down a depowered Slade…

What do the characters on Arrow fight for? What gives them the strength to keep going? It’s telling that the show’s…

“City Of Blood” is the eye of season two’s storm, the brief respite between the setup we’ve seen over the past several…

For the first 55 minutes of its running time, “Seeing Red” appears to be an oddly shapeless episode, one that tries to…

Arrow does its best work within the confines of a predictable, almost clockwork universe; so much of what happens on…

Arrow has often flirted with grandiose, operatic storytelling—it comes with the territory of being a superhero show—but…

There’s something about the Huntress that tends to bring out the best in Arrow, because “Birds Of Prey” is a triumph.…

To be a superhero—or, in the case of John Diggle, the partner of a superhero—is to assume a moral standing that sits…

I’ll admit I’m not an expert on the rules of storytelling, but I feel like you’re probably not supposed to cram…

The Clock King is a serious contender for the best one-off villain in Arrow’s history, or at least he will be until his…

It seemed impossible that all four Lances would escape their brush with Nyssa, daughter of Ra’s al Ghul, entirely…

Oliver says it best at the end of tonight’s often stellar episode: Way too many people know his secret identity. There…

Arrow has never been only one show. From its very beginning, it has pursued the twin tales of Oliver Queen at very…

Oliver Queen is just an awful judge of character. It’s rare that Oliver allies himself with someone in both his…

The purpose of this season’s batch of island flashback sequences has never been entirely clear. Yes, they have…

In “Identity,” the second episode of the excellent second season of Arrow, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) is chasing his…

As Arrow’s penultimate episode of what has been a highly successful 2013, “The Scientist” finds itself overly concerned…

Even by the heady standards of Arrow’s second season, “State v. Queen” does not mess around. The episode announces its…

Felicity remarks midway through tonight’s episode, “What happens in Russia stays in Russia… even if it makes no sense.”…

On Arrow, characters are defined by what they do know and what they don’t know. This has always been a show obsessed…