C
An uneven season of The Flash comes to a messy end
This isn’t so much a race as a 12-car pile-up at the finish line. The season two finale is trying to do so many things…
The Flash - Season 2
A-
The Flash loses a loved one as Zoom unleashes the metapocalypse
Like its title character throughout most of this episode, “Invincible” is brimming with a confidence that has been…
B+
Barry’s existential trip gets The Flash back up to speed
On paper, an episode titled “The Runaway Dinosaur” directed by Kevin Smith suggests The Flash has gone completely off…
C
Barry gets plenty of fatherly advice as The Flash slows to a crawl
“Rupture” is a pivotal episode this season, but for the most part, it’s also a dull one. Team Flash has made bad…
C+
A lack of speed makes for a glum, subdued outing of The Flash
Stripping a superhero of his powers is such a well-worn trope, it’s not even new to this season of The Flash, as Barry…
B+
Zoom reveals all and Barry is powerless to stop him on The Flash
For a show about speedsters, momentum has been surprisingly hard to maintain this season on The Flash. Part of that has…
B
Barry makes bad decisions, but they all work out on The Flash
We want our heroes to be fallible, because that’s where the drama comes from. If Barry never made mistakes, this would…
B+
Team Flash takes a night off, but a new speedster spoils the fun
The previews for this week’s episode left me wondering if it was really a good idea to introduce another speedster now,…
B
King Shark attacks and Zoom is revealed in a downbeat outing of The Flash
Despite previews suggesting a lighthearted shark romp, “King Shark” plays more like a gloomy hangover from Team Flash’s…
B
Zoom takes center stage but remains an enigma on The Flash
It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that The Flash packed most of the fun of this visit to Earth-2 into last week’s…
A
The Flash visits Earth-2 in a whirlwind episode that jolts the season back to life
The alternate universe episode featuring evil versions of regular characters is at least as old as ”Mirror, Mirror,” the…
B-
Barry battles a third-string metahuman-of-the-week in a subdued outing of The Flash
“Fast Lane” feels like a throwback to the first half of season one in several ways. It’s got a metahuman-of-the-week…
C
The Flash rushes through an overstuffed episode as Reverse-Flash returns
Having watched the frantic first hour of DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow last week, I had to wonder if that show’s editing…
B+
The Flash returns from hiatus with a new nemesis and a secret identity crisis
After a month-long hiatus, The Flash returns with an episode focused squarely on the season’s larger arcs, unburdened…
A-
It’s a very Roguish Christmas on The Flash
What more could Flash fans want for Christmas than Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, and the Trickster teaming up to take…
A
Team Arrow joins The Flash to help set up a spinoff
Holy Smoak, what an episode. The season so far has been hampered somewhat by the need to plant the seeds for the Legends…
B+
The Flash slows down as Gorilla Grodd resurfaces
Father figures are everywhere on this season of The Flash. A few episodes back, Captain Cold confronted his daddy…
B
Barry’s first encounter with Zoom gives The Flash a lift
The arrival of a formidable new foe in the waning minutes of an episode has a way of lifting what would otherwise be a…
B+
Earth-Two’s Harrison Wells and Dr. Light drop in on The Flash
“The Darkness And The Light” is a busy episode that never feels frantic or overstuffed. It’s tasked with moving a lot…
C+
The Flash takes an unwelcome detour into franchise-building as a new Firestorm is born
They saved the best for last this week, so let’s start there. It turns out there actually is a shark-man on the loose…