The Review at the End of the Universe
“Green Arrow and the Canaries” Arrow spends its first post crossover episode laying the groundwork for an upcoming spin-off focused on Mia, Laurel and Dinah picking up Oliver’s crusade to keep the city safe. Backdoor pilots are a strange beast in television. It’s an episode of a show designed to set up a different one….
“Leap of Faith” Arrow reunites OIiver with Thea on a trip to Nanda Parbat in an attempt to find out more about The Monitor. Having Thea back on the show is always welcomed. She has grown a great deal over the years and her presence on the show is sorely missed. It’s great that this…
“Welcome to Hong Kong” Arrow continues its final season victory lap by reminiscing about the show’s third season as Laurel deals with the loss of her world. Many would argue that the Hong Kong flashbacks in season 3 are a chapter of the show’s past better left forgotten as time might be better spent on…
“Starling City” Arrow begins its eighth and final season with a trip down memory lane to the beginnings of Oliver Queen’s crusade. TV shows in their final season often get nostalgic because they’ve earned the right to do so. Seven seasons on the air builds up a significant legacy and Arrow has always been good…
Arrow recently completed its seventh and penultimate season which means that there needs to be a discussion. Craig and Chris talk endless unknown family members, the abundance of secret societies, bringing in the kids and the how the show might end. Craig can be found on this very site and Chris can also be found…
“Living Proof” Arrow deals with the fallout of the previous episode while exploring Oliver’s tendency to fall back on his darkest impulses. This amounts to the second time that Team Arrow have survived an explosion that reasonably should have killed them. Blowing up a building that they all happen to be in should be fatal considering…
“Confessions” Arrow has the team under police interrogation in order to piece together the confusing events of a mission gone wrong. I can’t help but feel that this show is playing catch up with itself at this point. It has taken so long to reveal the main threat of the season because of the various…
“Spartan” Arrow introduces a figure from Diggle’s past and has Felicity consider wonder what her legacy will end up being. It’s definitely a cliché for TV shows to introduce parent characters in later seasons in an effort to manufacture drama in an environment where writers are running out of ideas. I don’t believe that the…
“Lost Canary” Arrow delivers a female centric episode with Felicity scrambling to find Evil Laurel after she goes off the rails. The previous episode had Evil Laurel outed to the city as someone with ties to Ricardo Diaz. This episode picks up in the aftermath of that with Evil Laurel discredited and on the run…
“Inheritance” Arrow picks up the thread of Emiko’s dishonesty and introduces another clandestine organisation that represent a large scale threat to the team. This show really loves a secret society. We have seen a number of them over the years with each being more mysterious than the last. The latest is known as The Ninth…
