‘The Flash’ 2.15 Recap: “Let’s Go Fishing
This week’s episode of ‘The Flash’ practically begs for a “jump the shark” joke, but then defies that by actually being surprisingly good. Who saw that coming?
This week’s episode of ‘The Flash’ practically begs for a “jump the shark” joke, but then defies that by actually being surprisingly good. Who saw that coming?
Oh, ‘Legends of Tomorrow’, aren’t you so clever and meta, giving Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell a storyline about breaking out of a prison? I see what you did there. In fact, it’s kind of hard to miss...
I was really frustrated by the dumb, sloppy plotting in last week’s episode of ‘The Flash’. Fortunately, the two-parter story arc ends a lot stronger than it opened.
A friend of mine who’s a bigger fan of the show than I am claimed that the fourth episode of ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ is the one where the series really kicks into gear. I wish I could agree with that, but for me th...
This week, ‘The Flash’ goes full-on ‘Fringe’ as our heroes take a trip to the parallel universe of Earth-2. Why is it that parallel universes in comics and sci-fi are so obsessed with monorails and the Art ...
We’ve officially moved past the pilot phase on ‘Legends of Tomorrow’. Unfortunately, the show is already starting to demonstrate a noticeable reduction in ambition. Worse, the plot holes are harder to ignore.
Following last week’s really disappointing episode, ‘The Flash’ sets aside the nonsensical time travel stuff and focuses on a good ol’ meta-of-the-week case. That’s a wise decision, though I still wou...
For reasons understood only to the show’s producers, the second episode of ‘Legends of Tomorrow’, which aired a week after the premiere, has been labeled Part 2 of the pilot, even though the first half had a natu...
The more that ‘The Flash’ tries to justify some of its sillier and more fantastical ideas with “science,” the less sense it makes. The series might not have this problem if the show-runners would stop writi...
Based on the first episode, ‘Legends of Tomorrow’, the new spinoff from ‘Arrow’ and ‘The Flash’, is DC Comics’ most ambitious television undertaking to date. It’s also undoubtedly go...
With all the business last season about the Reverse-Flash, who was another speedster exactly like Barry, I always felt that a villain who was actually the reverse of the Flash ought to be really, really slow. Amusingly, ‘The...
Like many other network shows, ‘The Flash’ will take a break for the rest of the year after this week’s episode. Before it leaves us until mid-January, the series delivered a holiday present from one demented San...