The Review at the End of the Universe
“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…
