May 24 2016
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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…
The Flash - Season 2
May 17 2016
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Like its title character throughout most of this episode, “Invincible” is brimming with a confidence that has been…
May 10 2016
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On paper, an episode titled “The Runaway Dinosaur” directed by Kevin Smith suggests The Flash has gone completely…
May 3 2016
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C
“Rupture” is a pivotal episode this season, but for the most part, it’s also a dull one. Team Flash has made bad…
Apr 26 2016
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Stripping a superhero of his powers is such a well-worn trope, it’s not even new to this season of The Flash, as…
Apr 19 2016
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For a show about speedsters, momentum has been surprisingly hard to maintain this season on The Flash. Part of that…
Mar 29 2016
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B
We want our heroes to be fallible, because that’s where the drama comes from. If Barry never made mistakes, this…
Mar 22 2016
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The previews for this week’s episode left me wondering if it was really a good idea to introduce another speedster…
Feb 23 2016
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B
Despite previews suggesting a lighthearted shark romp, “King Shark” plays more like a gloomy hangover from Team…
Feb 16 2016
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B
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…
Feb 9 2016
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The alternate universe episode featuring evil versions of regular characters is at least as old as ”Mirror, Mirror,”…
Feb 2 2016
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“Fast Lane” feels like a throwback to the first half of season one in several ways. It’s got a metahuman-of-the-week…
Jan 26 2016
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Having watched the frantic first hour of DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow last week, I had to wonder if that show’s editing…
Jan 19 2016
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After a month-long hiatus, The Flash returns with an episode focused squarely on the season’s larger arcs,…
Dec 8 2015
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What more could Flash fans want for Christmas than Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, and the Trickster teaming up to…
Dec 1 2015
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Holy Smoak, what an episode. The season so far has been hampered somewhat by the need to plant the seeds for the Lege…
Nov 17 2015
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Father figures are everywhere on this season of The Flash. A few episodes back, Captain Cold confronted his daddy…
Nov 10 2015
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The arrival of a formidable new foe in the waning minutes of an episode has a way of lifting what would otherwise be…
Nov 3 2015
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“The Darkness And The Light” is a busy episode that never feels frantic or overstuffed. It’s tasked with moving a…
Oct 27 2015
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They saved the best for last this week, so let’s start there. It turns out there actually is a shark-man on the…