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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
B+
“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.”
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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…
B-
When Arrow returns in the fall, it’ll be for an abbreviated stretch—greatly abbreviated, by Arrow standards,…
B
The aims of “Star City 2040” are nothing to sniff at. Jumping back and forth between timelines in a story is nothing…
B+
Last week’s Arrow review (a pair of reviews, technically) centered on one idea: Change is in the air, both in Star…
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Star City’s a metropolis in flux, in both the present and the future. Some of these developments are small, some…
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The best part of “Emerald Archer” is the first 15 seconds. After the familiar CW intro, we get not a “Previously, on …
B
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…
B+
You could be forgiven for expecting Arrow’s midseason premiere—any midseason premiere, really, but especially those…
B
The CW’s annual Arrowverse crossover episodes are always a bit of a tough needle to thread. The show’s writers need…
B
A great deal can happen in seven years. In its seven seasons on The CW, Arrow has seen a lot of villains,…
C+
On the whole, this isn’t a great season of Arrow. There are too many detours, too many balls dropped, more than the…