The Review at the End of the Universe
“Out of the Past” Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. takes the form of a noir thriller as the team investigate the events leaving to the well documented death of Agent Sousa. So many shows eventually do an episode in the style of a noir thriller because it lets the production team play around with the visual…
“Alien Commies from the Future” Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. heads to 1955 and infiltrates Area 51 to prevent the Chronicoms from achieving their goals. Time travel storytelling is by its very nature difficult because you’re dealing with a concept that has been a big part of fiction for a long time meaning that people will have…
“Know Your Onions” Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. continues its prohibition era adventure with a race against time to make sure that Freddie Malick survives being hunted by the Chronicoms. Time travel usually brings in the moral dilemma associated with changing the past in some form. It’s a common story element because it fascinates so many…
“The New Deal” Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. begins its final season with a prohibition era adventure, debates about changing the timeline and questions over the nature of life itself. That sounds like a lot for the first episode but it actually isn’t because everything is woven neatly through the characters and the narrative being presented…
“Monster” The Flash brings the new Wells into the fold as Barry deals with a rampaging Kaiju along with his difficult co-worker. This is the mandatory episode where a character portrayed as being unlikeable has reasons for being the way he is. It looked like the episode was going to subvert that trope when Julian…
“The New Rogues” The Flash introduces one of the more celebrated of Barry’s comic book villains as the team struggles with new dynamics. A few questions have been on my mind since this show began. I won’t go into all of them but one of them was definitely “when are we going to see Mirror…
“Magenta” The Flash goes back to basics with a standard metahuman story also featuring the return of Harry and Jesse from Earth-2. It’s good to have Harry back even if he has picked up the annoying habit of saying “Not!” when making statements to announce that he was being sarcastic. The episode does this not…
“Paradox” The Flash deals with the consequences of Flashpoint by taking us through all of the changes to the timeline. Sadly the episode doesn’t really do much more than this and I couldn’t help but be reminded of Fringe where a similar thing happened. For those not in the know; Fringe was a show that…
“Flashpoint” The Flash begins its third season in an alternate reality created by Barry saving his mother from death at the hands of the Reverse Flash at the end ofth last season. I’ll preface this review by saying that I was really excited about the possibilities of adapting the Flashpoint comic story arc in this…
“The Race of his Life” Season 2 of The Flash comes to an end with Zoom’s master plan becoming clear and Team Flash having to find a way to stop him. Let’s talk about Zoom! He has been a problematic villain to say the least. At the beginning of the season he was a mysterious…
