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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Lose Yourself”

By Brian Salvatore | Apr 18, 2018 | Television

The CW shows have a real knack for being able to up their game when need be, and can take what feels slight and make it far more impactful in a short amount of time. This week’s The Flash dealt with a number of threads being sewn together in a really effective way, and set […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Null and Annoyed”

By Brian Salvatore | Apr 11, 2018 | Television

The Flash returns! After a mini-hiatus, the show continues towards the inevitable confrontation between Team Flash and the Thinker. Let’s dig in! 1. Ewww Askew Kevin Smith has directed his fair share of CW-verse shows – this episode marks his sixth – but this episode felt the most over the top Smith-ian of the bunch. […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Run, Iris, Run”

By Brian Salvatore | Mar 14, 2018 | Television

Last night’s The Flash was an episode borne out of two questions: 1) what would Iris be like as a speedster, and 2) how can we actually stop DeVoe? We got answers to both, but I don’t know if either was really satisfactory. 1. Iris wants to show Ralph that she gets it My biggest […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Enter Flashtime”

By Brian Salvatore | Mar 7, 2018 | Television

No one would accuse the CW-verse of producing stylistically unique episodes all that often, so “Enter Flashtime” was a nice change of pace for The Flash, taking a bottle episode and giving it enough danger and gravitas to feel important and tense. Let’s dig in. 1. A fun, unusual episode For a show, ostensibly, about […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Subject 9”

By Brian Salvatore | Feb 28, 2018 | Television

After taking most of the month off for the Winter Olympics, The Flash is back! Let’s get right to it. 1. The Fiddler Of all the absurd Flash villains the show has introduced, this one actually worked with slightly few tweaks. The whole ‘everyone on the bus is a meta’ thing hasn’t really extended to […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “True Colors”

By Brian Salvatore | Feb 7, 2018 | Television

After what seemed like a pretty innocuous start, “True Colors” did a quarter season’s worth of plot development in its last 15 minutes or so. Strap in folks, spoilers abound. 1. Convenient new powers After last week’s ‘gestational telepathy’ revelation, this week Ralph becomes a shapeshifter. While this idea isn’t entirely absurd – he went […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash”

By Brian Salvatore | Jan 31, 2018 | Television

It used to be hard to pinpoint exactly which was the cheesiest episode of The Flash. So, for nothing else, thank you “Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash” for clearing that up for us. 1. Cross-company synergy It is bonkers that on the day the Ant-Man and The Wasp trailer dropped, The Flash introduced a shrink […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “The Elongated Knight Rises”

By Brian Salvatore | Jan 24, 2018 | Television

Barry’s still in jail, Ralph is still a douche, and we’ve got a repeat villain. Strap in, folks! 1. OG Trickster or GTFO There should be a rule that The Flash cannot do a Trickster episode without Mark Hamill. Although the episode explains his absence, it felt like amateur hour, without Hamill chewing scenery like […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Trial of the Flash”

By Brian Salvatore | Jan 17, 2018 | Television

After a month or so of not having to look at beautiful people drink coffee at CC Jitters, The Flash is back! Let’s dig into “The Trial of the Flash,” a story that shares a title, and little else, with a classic comics storyline. 1. Barry’s secret identity remains secret Although they tease a different […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Don’t Run”

By Brian Salvatore | Dec 6, 2017 | Television

We have made it to the mid-season finale of The Flash and, while the show has added some new characters and made some relatively large changes to the status quo, it feels pretty stodgy and unmotivated moving into its hiatus. 1. I still don’t understand why DeVoe is such a dick Over the past few […]

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Two Weddings and a Funeral: A ‘Crisis on Earth X’ Conversation, Part 2

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet, Elias Rosner and Brian Salvatore | Nov 29, 2017 | Television

It’s over! The four-part CW crossover that brought Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow together for ‘Crisis on Earth-X’ came, saw and conquered. Our three regular reviewers of these series – Elias Rosner (Supergirl), Christopher Chiu-Tabet (Legends of Tomorrow), and Brian Salvatore (The Flash, Arrow) – gathered to talk about the first two […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Therefore I Am”

By Brian Salvatore | Nov 22, 2017 | Television

Last night’s episode of The Flash was a weird one, as it allowed a lot of the season’s storylines to wrap up before the big crossover, but also introduced DeVoe for real, and gave the character some motivation – but nowhere near enough. Be warned, spoilers follow. 1. A team of flip-floppers This episode showed […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Lose Yourself”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Null and Annoyed”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Run, Iris, Run”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Enter Flashtime”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Subject 9”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “True Colors”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “The Elongated Knight Rises”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Trial of the Flash”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Don’t Run”

Two Weddings and a Funeral: A ‘Crisis on Earth X’ Conversation, Part 2

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Therefore I Am”

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