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In its final hour, Arrow does what it has always done. In some ways, it reverts to what it was in the beginning,…
Reviews - Arrow
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“My father saved Star City so that we can enjoy it, and he also never graduated college. So I think he’d be pretty…
C-
The CW has a mixed track record with its Arrowverse crossovers. In the past, the most successful episodes have been…
B+
You know what’s useful about the calm before a storm? It gives you a chance to get your affairs in order. Arrow has…
B+
“I’m not giving up. Maybe I’m giving in.”
B+
The Oliver Queen farewell tour makes its way to Russia, and something downright shocking happens. It’s not the…
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“Those are my kids.”
B+
It is rarely wise, nor valuable, to judge an episode based on how exciting that episode’s cliffhanger might be.…
B
It’s only the second episode of season eight. That’s important to note. It’s too early to honestly call anything a…
B+
Memory is a key element in Arrow’s dramatic DNA. Its first flashbacks arrived in the pilot, when in theory there was…
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When Arrow returns in the fall, it’ll be for an abbreviated stretch—greatly abbreviated, by Arrow standards,…
The aims of “Star City 2040” are nothing to sniff at. Jumping back and forth between timelines in a story is nothing…
Last week’s Arrow review (a pair of reviews, technically) centered on one idea: Change is in the air, both in Star…
Star City’s a metropolis in flux, in both the present and the future. Some of these developments are small, some…
The best part of “Emerald Archer” is the first 15 seconds. After the familiar CW intro, we get not a “Previously, on …
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…
The CW’s annual Arrowverse crossover episodes are always a bit of a tough needle to thread. The show’s writers need…
A great deal can happen in seven years. In its seven seasons on The CW, Arrow has seen a lot of villains,…
On the whole, this isn’t a great season of Arrow. There are too many detours, too many balls dropped, more than the…