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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “We Are The Flash”

By Brian Salvatore | May 23, 2018 | Television

The Flash wraps up its fourth season in a relatively predictable fashion, but did some good character work along the way, and gave a major tease towards season five. Let’s dig in but, beware, spoilers follow. 1. Pregnancy Meta! We all knew that the season was going to wrap up with Cecile giving birth to […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Think Fast”

By Brian Salvatore | May 16, 2018 | Television

The Flash is wrapping up its fourth season next week, and this week’s job was to put all the pieces on the table: Mrs. DeVoe had to flip, the satellites had to hit space, Cecile’s baby had to be ready to crown. But aside from moving all the chess pieces, how did the episode fare […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Harry and the Harrisons”

By Brian Salvatore | May 9, 2018 | Television

The Flash takes a break from DeVoe, and tries to give Iris and Amunet – two sometimes ignored characters – some stuff to do. 1. Sonny Wells One of my favorite bits about The Flash is how many versions of Wells Tom Cavanaugh gets to play. In this episode, he played five different Wells, including […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash’s “Therefore She Is”

By Brian Salvatore | May 2, 2018 | Television

The Arrow-verse shows this season – aside from Supergirl – all seriously whiffed on the big bad until about 2/3 of the way through. This isn’t a good thing; all three shows felt off in the early months, especially around the mid-season mark, when lots of things got shuffled on each show. The Flash has […]

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Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Fury Rogue”

By Brian Salvatore | Apr 25, 2018 | Television

Earth X! Brain drains! Angry villains! Let’s dig in. 1. Barry’s guilt A lot of this episode dealt with Barry dealing with, and not dealing with, his guilt and grief over Ralph’s death. A good amount of this stuff tracks with Barry’s character, but there were a few moments that felt a little forced or […]

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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 “We Are The Flash”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Think Fast”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Harry and the Harrisons”

Five Thoughts on The Flash’s “Therefore She Is”

Five Thoughts on The Flash‘s “Fury Rogue”

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”

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