After “Liberation” got things moving, “Pay the Piper” slows The Flash’s momentum down considerably, centering on a subplot introduced early in the season and then mostly forgotten till now. The main plot is on everyone’s minds, but the focus is on a pair of lesser villains while the heroes try to find their determination to… Continue reading REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 18 “Pay the Piper”
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REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 17 “Liberation”
“Liberation” is the episode we desperately needed, moving the season-long plot significantly forward while examining and illuminating some of the best qualities of the characters, specifically Barry and Iris. There’s also an inventive fight scene and an attempt to mitigate one of the season’s more egregious sins. It isn’t a complete home run – the… Continue reading REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 17 “Liberation”
REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 16 ” So Long and Goodnight”
“So Long and Goodnight” is one of those episodes. There’s nothing particularly wrong with it (outside of the blander than low-fat mayonnaise villains); some important plot reveals even happen. But it never captivates or entertains the way The Flash usually does, content to be connective tissue linking what came before with what will come later.… Continue reading REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 16 ” So Long and Goodnight”
REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 15 “The Exorcism of Nash Wells”
“The Exorcism of Nash Wells” confirms the fears with which “Death of the Speed Force” left me. We’re in for another round of Barry discovering that his heart/mind/spirit/lactose intolerance is his real superpower, or however they want to frame it. If we must go through this again, though, the way The Flash is currently going… Continue reading REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 15 “The Exorcism of Nash Wells”
REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 14 “Death of the Speed Force”
The Flash took a week-long break after the excellent “Grodd Friended Me,” and returns with “Death of the Speed Force,” a muddled, middling effort that serves mostly to make clear just how many balls this season has in the air. Some familiar faces return, as does a familiar superhero trope that needs to finally die,… Continue reading REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 14 “Death of the Speed Force”
REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 10 “Marathon”
Now that “Crisis on Infinite Earths” has come and gone, The Flash returns with “Marathon,” a breather of an episode about people who refuse to take a breather. “Marathon” deals with the fallout of Crisis while setting up the second half of the season (since the Bloodwork storyline has been hastily discarded), and it manages… Continue reading REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 10 “Marathon”