Connect with us

Recaps & Reviews

The Flash #1.1 “Pilot” Recap & Review

The premiere of The Flash combines the best of Arrow with a lighter, optimistic spin, and results in a fast-paced fun start.

Published

on

PilotSummary: The premiere of The Flash combines the best of Arrow with a lighter, optimistic spin, and results in a fast-paced fun start.

Recap

Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) was just 11 years old when his mother was killed in a bizarre and terrifying incident and his father (John Wesley Shipp) was falsely convicted of the murder. With his life changed forever by the tragedy, Barry was taken in and raised by Detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), the father of Barry’s best friend, Iris (Candice Patton).

Now, Barry has become a brilliant, driven and endearingly geeky CSI investigator, whose determination to uncover the truth about his mother’s strange death leads him to follow up on every unexplained urban legend and scientific advancement that comes along. Barry’s latest obsession is a cutting edge particle accelerator, created by visionary physicist Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) and his S.T.A.R. Labs team members, Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), who claim that this invention will bring about unimaginable advancements in power and medicine. However, something goes horribly wrong during the public unveiling, and when the devastating explosion causes a freak storm, many lives are lost and Barry is struck by lightning.

After nine months in a coma, Barry awakens to find his life has changed once again – the accident has given him the power of super speed. Thrilled with his new powers, Barry learns how to control them with the help of Dr. Wells and his team. However, keeping his secret from his best friend Iris (Candice Patton) is proving to be harder than he thought, especially when Joe’s new partner, Eddie Thawne (Rick Cosnett), catches her eye. When another meta-human, Clyde Maron, a man who can control the weather, attacks the city, it’s time to put Barry’s new powers, and himself, to the test. With the help of S.T.A.R. Labs, he is able to master his speed and, with a new suit and a pep talk from Oliver Queen, he decides to set course as the new superhero, The Flash. In the final battle, Detective West learns that Barry is a metahuman, and asks him to not include Iris in his superhero exploits. Unbeknownst to Barry, Dr. Wells can walk, and has a newspaper from 2024 about The Flash disappearing in a crisis.

Review

A downside to having Barry Allen first appear mid-season on Arrow last year is that it made the wait for this premiere excruciatingly long. There’s a lot of weight resting on The Flash; with Arrow having reached a new creative peak in its second season, the hopes are high for a beloved character many fans have been clamoring to see in current live-action. It’s tasked with keeping Arrow’s comic book-TV momentum while simultaneously establishing its own identity, appeasing both Arrow fans and new fans who might not have clicked with Arrow‘s darker tone.

While time will tell exactly how The Flash settles on its identity, the answer right now seems to be “Arrow-lite,” pulling out the elements that made its parent show successful, but polishing the grit and stripping much of the melodrama. The most telling thing about The Flash’s conception is how many parallels there are to where Arrow stood in season 2. In a lot of ways, Barry’s life is sort of a lighter, softer version of Oliver Queen’s; Iris and Joe West are expies of Laurel and Quentin Lance without the drama and vitriol, the S.T.A.R. Labs team is akin to a fully-formed Team Arrow, Barry’s missing time in the coma is an extremely micro-version of Oliver’s lost time on the island, etc. It’s hard to miss these things given how closely this show is tied into Arrow, but in a way, the showrunners can’t be blamed for reinventing and refurbishing their greatest hits from what’s become an extremely successful show.

FLA101c_0004rcAnd yet, with these familiar pieces in place, enough details are tweaked that the directions in which they can be taken are already vastly different. The most obvious is that this is, at this stage, a show about the creation of a fantastic superhero universe. Though the superpowers set-up is common in film, there’s actually been quite the void for a while on live-action TV. The heroes of Arrow, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Gotham, and Constantine either don’t have powers or don’t have superhero suits, and the big superhero predecessor Smallville had its infamous no flights/no tights rule until its end. The Flash is technically the first mainstream TV series in years that fully embraces a body-suited, masked hero with impossible powers. It’s not a different story from the multitudes of superhero stories we’ve seen, but it is the first we’ll be seeing in this new age of mainstream geek culture TV, where ridiculous plots and fast-paced stories are more embraced with effects to match them.

The pilot is generally smart about how it tackles its spin-off status, cushioning Barry’s big scene at the end of Arrow‘s “Three Ghosts” between and spliced together with new material, informing more about Barry and his relationships with those around him. Oliver’s appearance later in the episode is admittedly a bit hammy (“I think that lightning chose you” is a cringe-inducing and so not a line Oliver would say), but it makes sense that he’d appear given where “Three Ghosts” left off. If anything, the appearance of the two together solidifies just how much of a big deal Barry’s existence is; that something so fantastic could exist in the same world as Arrow is insane, but the contrast is purposefully painted with the two key heroes. As Oliver and Barry are two very different people, so are their circumstances, and that Barry can bring a brightness to a world as dark as the one Oliver has violently fought for is as inspirational as Oliver proclaims it is. And that Oliver technically names The Flash (in an extremely scenery-chewing way, as Stephen Amell has pointed out already) is its own “passing the torch” moment of sorts, Barry getting a blessing from Oliver to plunge headfirst into the new life. Though Oliver’s appearance is the only definitive Arrow-link here, though , it’s still hard to say how easy an attachment audiences unfamiliar with Arrow will have to Barry. Between Barry’s flashbacks and rehashing the “wonderkid forensic assistant who’s always late” bits Arrow already did, this pilot makes a hard effort to make sure we know who Barry is. But it’s also so quick to wreck the status quo that one can’t help but wonder if he plays as underdeveloped to those not privvy to his Arrow appearances.

FLA101f_0878raPerhaps that’s moot, because the pilot intentionally moves so quickly—again, just as Arrow has the tendency to do—that even without an attachment to any character, the whirlwind of plot twists and effects sequences keep the adrenaline pumping. Also, Grant Gustin carries just the right amount of spunk and awkwardness without coming off as annoyingly adorkable, and his utter joy at getting powers is a welcome change from self-pitying superheroes. Like Barry’s attitude, this whole pilot is exceptionally optimistic and forward-looking, a tone that’s reflected in its bright color palate and remarkably upbeat score. We get more prominent use of the once WB/CW-staple pop music than we’ve gotten from CW genre shows in years—both a Lady Gaga and an Ingrid Michaelson song, to boot—which, in addition to the casting of former Flash John Wesley Shipp, gives the sense that The Flash is looking as much to its past as its future. This “old-school fun” tone is the same kind that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tried and failed to achieve last year, but The Flash may have already mastered it thanks to a diverse cast and an assortment of intriguing plot threads. It’s still up on today’s level of dense, fast-paced plot-burning action shows, but keeps things direct and purposefully unpretentious. There’s no hiding that this is a superhero action show, and while Arrow took a while to embrace its wackier elements, The Flash gleefully does so, and in fact makes the existence of those wacky elements its entire impetus for existing. Sometimes, we just need a hero that loves what he’s doing and a show that’s fun. In a way, this is Barry spreading his optimism on what was previously seen on Arrow to be a pretty crappy world.

That the world is changing is also at the crux of the first episode. The existence of metahumans is akin to Oliver’s father’s list in season one of Arrow, a clear device to give Barry a reason to go after a specific bad guy every week, even if it doesn’t necessarily play into a larger plot arc. What makes this better than the list—which proved to be as great a flaw as it was an asset on Arrow—is how much it also plays into world-building. Every new metahuman has the potential to bring in something new based on Dr. Wells’ comments, what with dark energy, anti-matter, and whatever other pseudo-science the show wants to throw out spewing from that supercollider. It’s a remarkably clever plot device, one that harkens back to Smallville‘s ingenious reinvention of Kryptonite as a radioactive material that could create powers in humans just as much as it could hurt Superman. There was a lot of foresight in this, which is even more remarkable considering just how early in Arrow season 2 those annoying particle accelerator news reports began.

Each character gets a role to play in this first episode, even if brief, and we learn a tidbit about everyone. While that’s a major reason this pilot often feels overstuffed—Caitlin’s reveal about her dead fiancee, for example, is a dead stop that might have played better in the next episode—it’s a good sign that there are already individual arcs planned for this decent-sized cast. The only two that don’t really get much insight are Eddie Thawne and Cisco, though they do provide fairly clear roles as future antagonist and solid comic relief, respectively. Dr. Wells has a seemingly complete arc in the episode, what with realizing he can help Barry become a hero and not an experiment, but he’s also apparently not a stand-up guy either. The big cliffhanger is all about him and his future-newspaper (good to know we’ll still have print journalism in 10 years!) but it’s so out of left field that there isn’t much to comment on yet. This is a dynamic that we’ll just have to see play out.

FLA101b_0406rThe best thing about the cast is how pretty much everyone likes each other, or at the very least doesn’t harbor any bad feelings one way or another. But even without any sort of defined tension, it’s still interesting to see these characters’ relationships play out. The best evidence of this is Barry and his relationship with the Wests, who all get interesting character material to play throughout. Candice Patton is not what one normally sees as the female lead on a superhero show; she has a refreshingly youthful spunk that matches Grant Gustin’s, even if right now their chemistry really does lean more on siblings than potential lovers.

Because of that, the melodrama between the romantic leads is reduced—the Barry/Iris/Eddie love triangle is a little more benign than usual, thus far—and the entire West surrogate family relationship in general is less-treaded territory. Joe West (played by an instantly likeable and way-too-young-to-be-their-dad Jesse L. Martin) learning Barry’s identity right in the first episode is a particularly good example of the different directions The Flash is taking its familiar archetypes. In a pilot full of surprises, that might just be the most surprising development, if only because it breaks so many rules of the superhero paradigm. It puts the detective in a precarious position, but on a meta level, it’s a justification for the rather worn-down “superhero can’t tell his love interest the truth” trope. “Your dad forbids it” isn’t going to last for the entire series, but it’s enough to sustain a different sort of tension from what we’ve seen before. And Joe’s newfound belief in Barry, while triumphant, sets a course for potential drama between them as their investigation continues down the line. It’s nothing as big as the operatic family drama on Arrow, but it’s such a unique and complicated dynamic that the hurdles will still be interesting to see. Again, the best part about the Flash pilot is how optimistic it is, so it’s refreshing to play out some drama between this family without damaging their fondness for one another.

FLA101a_0103rThe story of Barry’s parents is the darkest the pilot goes, and even that is a bit optimistic in the hope of proving Barry’s father innocent. The scene between Barry and his father, played by the instantly charming John Wesley Shipp, is tragically beautiful, well-played by Gustin and Shipp. Going along with the fast pace of the pilot, there’s already some progression on this story in addition to the two or three other threads going on. Barry definitively recognizes the killer as an actual person with his powers, and the revelation is sure to spark as many threads as the main metahuman story posed in the pilot. Simply put, there’s a whole lot left to explore, which is a good thing.

As far as the actual heroics of The Flash, there’s really nothing to complain about. Clyde Mardon as the unnamed Weather Wizard is an okay first villain, underdeveloped as expected but providing an easy threat to propell the story. It’s a bit disappointing that his weather powers don’t amount to much more than making wind and fog, but it’s better the show sticks with effects it can do rather than branching too far-out. The Flash suit looks just fine; a teeny bit cheesy and with signature post-2000s leather, but there’s no way to make a Flash costume not look at least slightly ridiculous. The explanation of it being a prototype firesuit is clever, and once Barry gets to play around in the suit, the episode really comes together. There are certainly some rough bits of CGI in the final battle–the climax of which hilariously amounts to “run in the opposite direction,” which is awesome–but it’s all tolerable, and much bigger than is normally expected from a CW production. The superspeed and what Barry does with it meets expectations fairly well, actually. The show doesn’t try to act like these are effects we’ve never seen before, so instead snags a couple of inspired moments (the first bullet-time in the diner) and smartly spends most of its time on character and plot, instead.

There isn’t a ton to heavily analyze about The Flash because it’s so focused on moving things along. As such, the pilot doesn’t exactly say anything profound or new, but it makes a major effort to hook each and every person watching with something. There are lots of moving parts, and they all move as quickly as Barry himself, which admittedly results in the episode feeling less-than-cohesive. But it’s also the most telling sign that The Flash is a winner: like its title character, it’s optimistic that the show will only get better, willing to run at top speed into this brand new world. And optimistically, it will be so entertaining and fun that there won’t be a reason not to keep watching.

Odds & Ends

  • I’d be remiss to not mention that David Nutter directed this, a man who has this magic touch when it comes to genre pilots. Nutter has an ability to immediately meld into the pace and tone any given pilot script is going for, so it’s no surprise that his direction sets the stage for what The Flash will look like the best that it could.
  • Barry’s CSI-Sherlock thing—the floating text while playing forensic detective—is fine and all, but it seems out of place here. It’s already pretty overused in detective stories now, and for a show already rife with special effects, it’s unnecessary.
  • Heavy-handed as the Barry/Oliver scene is, a shiver definitely went down my spine when Oliver remarked at Barry’s superspeed: “Cool.”
  • On that note, I like that the lightning bolt logo is really only added because Carlos thinks it’s “cool.” There really isn’t a justification at this stage why a superhero would need a logo, so you know, why not go for the coolness factor?
  • I’d honestly forgotten that Caitlin and Cisco appeared on Arrow last season. I don’t remember them doing much aside from giving us a sneak preview, so it didn’t really inform their characters one way or another here.
  • While the procedural stuff isn’t too exciting, there are shades of a quirky millenial-esque lens we’re seeing it through. In particular, the deadpan delivery of, “We’ve got a bunch of witnesses here. They all have cell phones…” followed by, obviously, watching the videos everyone took on their cell phones.
  • “Does that include twerking?” I want to hate that line, but it just makes me love Iris. A lot.
  • “I need you to urinate in this.”
  • “Lightning gave me abs?”
  • “Why the hell would God need to rob banks?!”

1 Comment

1 Comment

  1. bbussey

    October 8, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    I think they are following the same concept on Flash as on Arrow, where the first incarnations of some of the characters may not necessarily be the final versions. Note that in the comics, Clyde Mardon is the brother of Mark “Weather Wizard” Mardon. As with two Canaries and two Deathstrokes and two Vertigos on Arrow, there will be a second Weather Wizard on Flash at some point … and it will be Mark Mardon as the final version, as in the comic book canon.

    The costume also will evolve, according to the show runners. And, given that Barry just acquired his powers, it makes sense that the only thing he has discovered he can do is to run fast and that he would use that to unravel Mardon’s cyclone. Conversely, it also makes sense that Mardon had not realized his full capabilities and also “kept it simple.” We probably will see more sophisticated weather phenomena whenever Mark Mardon resurfaces.

    I disagree that Oliver’s dialog was out of character, given his current state of mind. He’s on top of the world at this moment, and everything has been “coming up Arrow” for the past five months. Bad guys are on the run, the vigilante task force has been disbanded, and Laurel has become a team member. The Barry/Oliver meeting presumably occurs before the emergence of the new Count Vertigo in Arrow S03E01. So at this stage, it’s not a stretch to believe that he and Barry are there for the “greater good” due to the design of a higher power rather than fate. It wouldn’t have been in character during the first two seasons, but it certainly works at the cusp of the third season before his utopia falls apart.

    Good review. Let’s hope most of the audience migrates to Arrow tonight, and sticks around for both shows next week.

Leave a Reply

Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

News

Blu-ray Review: The Flash: The Complete Sixth Season

Review of The Flash Season 6 Blu-ray set from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Published

on

The Flash: The Complete Sixth Season is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, and we have been provided with a copy of the set to review on the site!

The set features all 19 episodes of The Flash Season 6 plus extras — the Blu-ray includes all of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover!

Here’s what’s up:

Packaging & Design: Starting with this because it’s probably the first thing you’ll notice. The box art for this set has changed since the original press release — the fired Hartley Sawyer’s Ralph Dibny is no longer on the packaging. While I understand the show distancing themselves — Ralph was indeed an important part of Season 6, with his Sue Dearbon story, and I’m not 100% sure how I think they should have handled it. As it is, it looks odd with just the other four members of Team Flash on it. Though, to be fair, Nash Wells isn’t on the cover either.

With that said, The Flash sets usually have some of the best designed packaging and menu art and this set is no exception.

The Episodes: Also seems I am repeating myself but the Blu-ray presentation on The Flash is loads better than what we see on TV and is pretty cinematic. All 19 episodes of Season 6 are here, and — spoiler warning — because of COVID-19, they were cut off at 19 episodes, so that means some storylines aren’t completely wrapped. With that said, this season saw Eric Wallace taking over as showrunner, and with him came a new tactic that he referred to as “graphic novels.” The first “graphic novel” included the character Bloodwork (Sendhil Ramamurthy) as characters are facing death, and the second, after Crisis, dealt with a new “Mirror Master.”

I will say that The Flash under Eric Wallace has a great vision and I love his enthusiasm, which you can actually hear on the “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach” commentary. He’s as big of a geek as we are, and I mean that in the absolute best way. The only thing I’d have to say negative about Season 6 is that the mirror storyline has gone on way too long — and I wonder, if they had known all along that we’d end with 19 episodes (an impossibility, because who would?), it might have been a bit shorter.

This “graphic novel” set-up, however, does offer the chance to binge the season in parts, which is pretty cool, and the Blu-ray bonus disc of all of Crisis on Infinite Earths is a good thing to throw in the middle to tee up Graphic Novel #2.

The other thing I will say about Season 6 is that I really liked some of the new characters that are set up. Chester P. Runk, Sue Dearbon, Kamilla, and Allegra — all fun characters that add to rather than detract from the series.

The Extras: The set includes a bonus black and white noir version of “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach” with commentary by Eric Wallace. Commentaries don’t happen too often these days, so I’m so glad they put something on this set. There is also a gag reel and deleted scenes. And, of course, all of Crisis which has a lot of great Flash content!

Is It Worth It? If you’re a Flash completist or want to see the most recent season in high definition, sure. You might want to start at the very beginning, though. Still, I think The Flash is on its way back to its former glory and Season 6 is the start of that journey. Can’t wait for Season 7, and for now, this set will be revisited often.

Get your copy of the Blu-ray from Amazon.com at a discounted price and support FlashTVNews!

Continue Reading

News

Blu-ray Review: The Flash: The Complete Fifth Season

Review of the Flash Season 5 Blu-ray set.

Published

on

Disclaimer: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided FlashTVNews with a free copy of this set for review in this post. The opinions shared are my own.

The Flash: The Complete Fifth Season hits Blu-ray and DVD this week, containing all 22 episodes of Season 5 plus bonus episodes from the Elseworlds crossover. In addition to the entire season, there are few extra features for all to enjoy, though some are duplicated from other sets that were made available this year. Here’s the review.

The Episodes: As mentioned, all 22 episodes plus extras are on this set. And as I tend to write every year, the show isn’t quite at the high level it was in its first season, but there are definitely standouts in Season 5. A big theme for the season is family, and the conflicts between parents and their children. Caitlin and her parents are a part of that. The season’s villain is a part of that. And the biggest part of that is Nora West-Allen (Jessica Parker Kennedy), the daughter of Barry and Iris brought back from the future. Kennedy is fantastic in the role, though it is at times disappointing to see so much attention on a new character when we are here for the ones we’ve seen for 100+ episodes.

The Flash Season 5 contains the series’ 100th episode which is a great journey through the five years of the show. Sadly absent from Episode 100, though, is Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) who was recovering from an injury for a good part of the season. Martin’s presence was certainly missed though it is nice that the show upgraded Danielle Nicolet (Cecile) to series regular this year.

I’ll be honest: I wasn’t very invested in the Cicada story, at least not as much as I probably should have been. And I was even less into the latest Wells, “Sherloque,” which was a joke that stopped being funny within about 2 minutes, with no offense meant to the writers or Tom Cavanagh. It was nice to see the talented Cavanagh in another role, though part of me still is wondering why it was not Matt Letscher, though I’m forgiving that because, again, Tom Cavanagh.

I’m also not sure what to make of Vibe’s eventual fate, unless it is a way to make things less easy for next year’s crossover. In any event, watching these episodes still has me excited for Season 6, and The Flash is certainly a series that is worth the Blu-Ray upgrade.

The Extras: There’s a fantastic featurette about the origins of Killer Frost which is really well put together. I was, however, surprised that such attention wasn’t paid to XS/Nora as she was also a major arc for Season 5. Was there only room to cover one story? I’m also surprised there wasn’t some kind of 100th episode spotlight, especially since Warner Bros. did have press kit people on the line interviewing the cast.

There are Elseworlds, villains, and Comic-Con featurettes that you can find on the other DC TV shows this year, which I can only imagine is a cost-cutting measure to include them everywhere.

The set also has deleted scenes, with the most notable being Superman running with Oliver Queen from “Elseworlds Part 1.” It’s a shame that was cut. There was also a “My Name Is Barry Allen” from “Elseworlds” with Stephen Amell replacing Grant Gustin as Grant replaced him in the aired Part 2 — this was surely cut and unfinished so as to not blow the reveal that Oliver was Barry in Part 1. It’s still really cute and fun.

Finally, there’s a gag reel. While they are introduced with credits like The Office, they’re still a bit… meh.

Packaging and Design: Seeing Barry and Nora running side by side is the perfect way to sell this. Very nice looking.

Is It Worth It? I’ll always recommend picking up Flash Blu-Rays from the beginning, but this is certainly worthwhile, especially to prepare for Season 6 to premiere on October 8. You can purchase this set (and support this site!) here.

Continue Reading

News

Blu-ray Review: The Flash: The Complete Fourth Season

Review of the Blu-ray set for The Flash: The Complete Fourth Season

Published

on

The Complete Fourth Season of The Flash hits Blu-ray and DVD this week (Tuesday, August 28), and we’ve got our hands on a review copy!

Before we get to the review, here’s how the season is described:

In Season Four, the mission of Barry Allen, aka The Flash (Grant Gustin), is once more to protect Central City from metahuman threats. First, he’ll have to escape the Speed Force. With Barry trapped, the job of protecting Central City falls to his family – Detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin); his fiancée, Iris West (Candice Patton); and Wally West/Kid Flash (Keiynan Lonsdale) – and the team at S.T.A.R. Labs – Dr. Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost (Danielle Panabaker), Cisco Ramon/Vibe (Carlos Valdes) and brilliant scientist Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh). When a powerful villain threatens to level the city if The Flash doesn’t appear, Cisco risks everything to break Barry out of the Speed Force. But this is only the first move of a life-or-death chess game with Clifford DeVoe aka The Thinker (Neil Sandilands), a mastermind who’s always ten steps ahead of Barry, no matter how fast he’s running. Shocking surprises come fast and furious in all 23 action-packed adventures featuring The Fastest Man Alive.

So, how’s the set?

The Episodes: It’s going to be very hard to ever replicate the greatness that was the first season of The Flash. Unfortunately, one thing that The Flash Season 1 did so well that still didn’t connect for Season 4 is a strong villain. While I have more appreciation for The Thinker after rewatching some episodes and checking out the extra interview features on this set, I still don’t really feel that empathy and care for him that I had for, say, Eobard/Wells.

Season 4 also tried to course correct with more humor to varied success. Sometimes it worked; others the show was far too amused with itself. (I don’t need to see any more Wellses no matter how much I love Tom Cavanagh, for example, and “psychic pregnancy” will never not be too campy for me.)

There’s some good stuff, though. The best version of Barry’s suit so far premieres in Season 4, and Barry and Iris finally get married this year, even if every time they got married, they ended up interrupted. There are some episodes that worked to innovate, and there are also things like Barry in jail which seem to go on for too long. But at least with a DVD or Blu-ray you can fast forward, right?

Season 4 is also where we meet Ralph Dibny. He grows on you until you finally stretch your appreciation levels. By season’s end, you love Ralph as much as everyone else might.

The Extras: Of all the DC TV shows, The Flash usually gets the best treatment as far as extras go. We’ve got deleted scenes (including some WestAllen!), bloopers, and the all-encompassing Comic-Con video… and some other great extras, including Sterling Gates and Eric Wallace with Katee Sackhoff offering commentary on Amunet (who I do enjoy more after seeing Sackhoff speaking about her, but I still don’t understand why the silly accent was a thing). There’s also a really nice feature about the Elongated Man, and all four episodes of this year’s DC TV crossover are represented.

There’s also talk about The Thinker, and as I said, I appreciate the storyline more but I still didn’t have that emotional connection with the character that I feel I needed. The other bodies thing at midseason made that all even worse.

Packaging & Art: This is one of the best looking Flash Blu-ray sets so far. Dynamic design on the box art and on the discs. I like it.

Is It Worth It? As I said, nothing will be Season 1 again, but if you’re a fan of The Flash there are a lot of extras to make this worth it. Order yours from Amazon.com at a discounted rate and support this website!

Continue Reading

Trending