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REVIEW: The Flash – Season 9, Episode 2 “Hear No Evil”

AlexGherzo | Feb 17, 2023 | 0

“Hear No Evil” is a big stumble for The Flash after a good premiere, and it bodes ill for the show’s final season. While there are some good themes of personal choice and weighing human lives, one of the main characters is treated with shocking callousness, a new character fails to impress, an...

REVIEW: The Flash – Season 9, Episode 1 “Wednesday Ever After”

AlexGherzo | Feb 9, 2023 | 0

The Flash is back for its final season, with a truncated 13-episode run (which isn’t meant as the same pun everyone is making; there are just only so many words you can call it) closing out the show’s tenure at the CW. The producers must feel pressure to make this last season a great one, &helli...

REVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 17 “Keep it Dark”

AlexGherzo | Jun 11, 2022 | 0

“Keep it Dark” is another stand-aloneish episode, where it’s mostly a self-contained story, but some of the plot points will likely return in the near future. (We’ll call that the Buffy Special.) Barry’s storyline is the subplot, while the main action focuses on Allegra and Chester. It isn...

REVIEW: The Flash – Season 8 Episode 16 “The Curious Case of Bartholomew Allen”

AlexGherzo | May 26, 2022 | 0

“The Curious Case of Bartholomew Allen” is a stand-alone episode… or is it? It mostly is, but parts of it will be important down the road. The plot has a big inconsistency that makes the middle feel like filler to kill time till the climax, but it’s offset by some terrific character work, pa...

REVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 15 “Into the Still Force”

AlexGherzo | May 19, 2022 | 0

Iris’ disappearance at the end of “Funeral for a Friend” takes center stage in “Into the Still Force,” a building block episode that inches Barry closer to saving his wife without closing out the storyline yet. It’s a bit more unfocused than The Flash has been this year, with a couple of...

REVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 14 “Funeral for a Friend”

AlexGherzo | May 12, 2022 | 0

“Funeral for a Friend,” a reference to the comic book story that chronicled the aftermath of “The Death of Superman” (as opposed to the Elton John song), is the inevitable follow-up to Frost’s death in “Death Falls.” It’s a quiet episode with very little superhero action, focusing on...