B+Season 4The Flash season finale delivers a whirlwind conclusion to the Thinker sagaScott Von Doviak5/22/18 9:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe knew it would come down to this in the end: All you need is love. Exactly how that would manifest itself in the…
BSeason 4The Flash gets the most out of its characters as the Enlightenment approachesScott Von Doviak5/15/18 9:03pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Think Fast,” the penultimate episode of this fourth season of The Flash, peaks early with one of the best…
BSeason 4Team Flash acquires an unlikely ally in a subdued outingScott Von Doviak5/08/18 9:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs the fourth season of The Flash approaches its conclusion, “Harry And The Harrisons” is a surprisingly low-key and…
CSeason 4The Flash tries to make us care about the Thinker, with limited successScott Von Doviak5/01/18 8:55pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Therefore She Is” is a crucial episode for anyone truly invested in the overarching Thinker storyline this season. It…
C-Season 4The Flash and friends spend a filler hour getting in touch with their feelingsScott Von Doviak4/24/18 8:50pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen the writers of The Flash decide to hammer home a theme, they don’t hold back. You could hardly miss it this week:…
B-Season 4Death and darkness accompany another colossal failure by Team FlashScott Von Doviak4/17/18 9:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAll season long, The Flash has been trying to pull off a tricky balancing act by bringing back the humor and Silver Age…
C+Season 4The Flash strains for broad humor in a middling episodeScott Von Doviak4/10/18 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkKevin Smith’s first two directorial outings on The Flash were played relatively straight, sticking closely to the…
BSeason 4Candice Patton delivers a knockout performance in a fun but frustrating FlashAllison Shoemaker3/13/18 10:47pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere’s plenty to enjoy in “Run, Iris, Run,” and Candice Patton’s grounded but ever-so-slightly giddy performance is…
BSeason 4The Flash must stop a nuclear blast in a gimmicky hyperreal-time episodeScott Von Doviak3/06/18 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor the fastest man alive, Barry Allen is always just a little too slow. His problem every season when it comes to…
B-Season 4Team Flash gets played like a fiddle as the dour DeVoe saga continuesScott Von Doviak2/27/18 9:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIs the DeVoe storyline threatening to get interesting at last? I haven’t been a fan so far, but the concept of a…
C+Season 4Barry's prison sentence comes to an end in a muddled episode of The FlashScott Von Doviak2/06/18 9:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhile Barry Allen has been languishing behind bars these past several weeks, much of The Flash’s entertainment value…
B+Season 4Team Flash gets downsized in the season's funniest episodeScott Von Doviak1/30/18 8:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor the second week in a row, The Flash puts its season-long arc on the back burner in favor of a comedic one-off,…
BSeason 4With The Flash sidelined, the B-team takes center stage in an uneven episodeScott Von Doviak1/23/18 9:21pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe best thing about “The Elongated Knight Rises” is the absence of any DeVoe-related activity. I didn’t realize just…
C+Season 4The Flash speeds through the trial of the fastest defendant aliveAllison Shoemaker1/16/18 10:22pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWell, you’ve got to hand it to Marlize DeVoe. She, at least, understands what a trial — especially a TV trial — is…
B-Season 4The Flash goes on mid-season hiatus with an eye-rolling cliffhangerScott Von Doviak12/05/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWell, so much for keeping it light.
B+Season 4The Flash gets lost in an overstuffed chapter of an entertaining crossover eventScott Von Doviak11/28/17 8:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink In my comic-book reading youth, crossover stories were the means by which stray issues of comics I otherwise never…
CSeason 4Barry falls back into bad old habits in a dull set-up episode of The FlashScott Von Doviak11/21/17 8:45pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAt roughly one-third of the way through the season, the time is right to put some meat on the bones of the overarching…
C+Season 4The Flash strains for laughs in the season's first clunkerScott Von Doviak11/14/17 9:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTaking its cue from the Elongated Man this week, The Flash contorts itself into self-parody as it pushes the boundaries…
B+Season 4The Flash sits out this week as the women take chargeScott Von Doviak11/07/17 8:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkUnless I’m forgetting something, “Girls Night Out” is the first entirely Flash-free episode of The Flash. (Or at least…
A-Season 4A classic DC character joins Team Flash in another fun outingScott Von Doviak10/31/17 9:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s hard to believe it took this long to introduce the Elongated Man into the world of The Flash, but there’s…
