The Review at the End of the Universe
“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…
“Invincible” Zoom begins his campaign to bring chaos to Earth-1 when he unleashes a legion of Metahumans on the unsuspecting population in the second season penultimate episode of The Flash. The opening moments of this episode were visually excellent as we saw the Metahumans really tearing through Central City and setting up a problem that…
“The Runaway Dinosaur” Kevin Smith directs an episode of The Flash…oh and some stuff happens to the characters that populate this show. The reason I point out that Kevin Smith directed this one is that it seems to be a selling point for this episode from a marketing perspective but other than having a name…
“Rupture” Barry takes advice from all of his father figures as The Flash deals with the problem of Barry’s lost speed when Zoom begins a campaign to bring Earth-1 to its knees. Having a superhero TV series where the main character loses his abilities for two whole episodes is a really bold decision and risks…
“Back to Normal” Barry has to deal with not having his powers for an entire episode of The Flash as a metahuman captures Harry to make him pay for what the particle accelerator did to him. It’s an interesting idea as Harry is being made to pay for something that actually had nothing to do…
“Versus Zoom” The Flash starts the sprint towards the season finale as Barry takes the fight to Zoom in an attempt to stop him once and for all. Ever since the identity of Zoom was revealed there has been lingering questions over his origin and how Jay could be seen to kill himself. All of…
“Flash Back” The Flash looks back to the past as Barry travels back in time to look for help increasing his speed from Eobard Thawne. Time travel is a really tricky idea in storytelling and The Flash hasn’t typically handled it all that well. When Barry decided that he was going to travel back in…
“Trajectory” The Flash comes back from hiatus by introducing a new speedster and delivering some revelations that further the conflict with Zoom. In the early part of the episode I wondered if this was going to be a fairly disposable outing with a one shot villain to kill time before the buildup to the finale…
“King Shark” The Flash brings back the CGI monstrosity King Shark to deliver something of a third act to the Earth-2. By CGI monstrosity I don’t mean that Killer Shark looked bad. I think that he looked amazing and really shows how talented the visual effects artists who work on this show are. Between this…
“Escape From Earth-2” The Flash concludes the visit to Earth-2 with Wells and Cisco mounting a rescue of the captured Barry before their window of opportunity to return to Earth-1 runs out. This episode had a lot to live up to after the stellar outing last week. Many shows have a problem concluding a two…
