While that hardly sounds like a ringing endorsement, the first season's formula of "Barry must defeat this week's one-note villain by running even faster than before!" is contextualized rather sweetly in "The Flash is Born," a story of Barry Allen's high-school bully being granted superpowers and using them to. Right off the bat, being a fan of The Flash means being privy to (and accepting of) jokes about repetitiveness. Its fifth begins October 9 th, so we figured now might be a good time to catch up on some of the show's best episodes, currently streaming on Netflix. With fun villains and guest stars galore (including Mark Hamil, reprising his 1990 Flash role The Trickster, as well as WWE Superstars Edge and Godlberg), the show has - despite its occasional wheel-spinning and character un-development - proven to be a bright, fun, sci-fi laden romp that isn't afraid to get weird you ever see a villain grab a bolt of lightning with his bare hands and throw it back at the hero? The Flash did that three seasons ago. What are the logistics there? Well, The Flash is very quick to introduce time travel, and by its second season, it dives full-on into alternate universes a la DC Comics, allowing Cavanagh to embody everything from evil Wells, to stoic Wells, to dumb Wells, to Mad Max: Fury Wells, to, err. In the present, The Flash fights alongside a wonderful crew of scientists, including Danielle Panabaker's Caitlyn Snow (who doubles as the anti-hero Killer Frost), pop-culture-reference-machine Cisco Ramon (the multiverse-travelling Vibe), played by the goofy, charming Carlos Valdes, and Tom Cavanagh as a different version of Professor Harrison Wells each season. Martin), a surrogate father as warm and kind as his own biological one, and Joe's daughter Iris, the future journalist, #TeamFlash leader and Mrs. Barry was sent to live with Henry's friend Detective Joe West (Jesse L.
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Despite its ups and downs, The Flash manages to be one hell of a neat show about a found family trying to be better - towards each other, and themselves.Īfter seeing his mother killed as a child by a super powered "Speedster," after his father Henry Allen (John Wesley Shipp, who played Barry on the 1990 The Flash TV Show) was put away for her murder. The heart and soul of a show where every second character could be described as such, Gustin's at times pissy, always well-meaning Barry is a wonderful addition to the modern superhero pantheon. And The CW's second "Arrowverse" show was off to the races.Ĭentral City forensics expert Barry Allen (Grant Gustin, Glee) first showed up on Arrow, and after spending several months in a lightning-induced coma, he awoke to super-speed and world of meta-humans using their powers for evil.
"My name is Barry Allen, and I am the Fastest Man Alive."Īfter a sincere pilot with occasional Sherlock-esque graphics that were swiftly abandoned, The Flash quickly morphed from a potential procedural into a superhero soap opera.
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