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The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.8: What’s Past is Prologue
This week on The Flash season 5, Barry Allen and Nora West-Allen traveled backa to previous seasons of the show. This concept was partially to celebrate the 100th episode of the show. But, the episode...
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The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.7: O Come, All Ye Thankful
This week’s episode of The Flash season 5 was all about father figures. Yes, even more than every other episode of The Flash . Each episode of this season has done a great job of...
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The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.6: The Icicle Cometh
This week The Flash season 5 was all about Caitlin Snow. I enjoyed seeing her get a main plot, even with the predictability of the story and all the confusion with Killer Frost up to...
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The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.5: All Doll’d Up
The villain on this week’s episode of The Flash season 5 was Rag Doll, an incredibly creepy meta with a distorted body and clown face. The scariness of this meta was distracting and out of...
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The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.4: News Flash
The Flash season 5 is great whenever it’s focused on being a family show. That was the case in this week’s very fun episode. “News Flash” had a nice Smallville feel to it. A blogger...
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The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.3: The Death of Vibe
The title “The Death of Vibe” sums up why this week’s episode of The Flash season 5 was so frustrating. I’m not sure what drama could come out of a fake death for Cisco Ramon....
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The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.2: Blocked
This week’s episode of The Flash season 5 was serviceable but lifeless. It felt like the episode was just killing time until the final scene. The ending revealed that this season’s villain is “Cicada.” That’s...
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The Flash Season 5 Review: 5.1: Nora
Every season of The Flash starts out strong. Then around the halfway point, the story gets messy and I get frustrated. But, much like Barry Allen deciding to make the most of his time with...
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The Flash Season 4 Review: 4.23: We Are The Flash
Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW The Flash season 4 finale was pretty much one bit of sci-fi nonsense mumbo jumbo after another. But, the character moments all worked so well that it really didn’t matter. Iris...
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The Flash Season 4 Review: 4.22: Think Fast
Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW The Flash season 4 got incrementally closer to its end game this week in what felt like a mostly unnecessary episode. Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow convinced Barry Allen to let...
