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- The CW
- Oct 7, 2014
- The CW
- Oct 7, 2014
Summary The spinoff of The CW's Arrow finds Central City forensic assistant Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) with superhuman speed after being hit by a bolt of lightning during an accident at a particle accelerator. With the help of three scientists at Harrison Wells’ S.T.A.R. Lab, he helps the citizens of Central City as he seeks answers about his mo...
- The CW
- Oct 7, 2014
- The CW
- Oct 7, 2014
Summary The spinoff of The CW's Arrow finds Central City forensic assistant Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) with superhuman speed after being hit by a bolt of lightning during an accident at a particle accelerator. With the help of three scientists at Harrison Wells’ S.T.A.R. Lab, he helps the citizens of Central City as he seeks answers about his mo...
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Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
73
89% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
11% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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It vibrates with big-picture vision and has smart fun with its premise.
All the potential here is in the show’s resistance to the joyless atmospherics that have become the bane of comic-book shows and movies.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 811 User Ratings
7.8
81% Positive
655 Ratings
655 Ratings
10% Mixed
79 Ratings
79 Ratings
9% Negative
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 811 User Ratings
7.8
81% Positive
655 Ratings
655 Ratings
10% Mixed
79 Ratings
79 Ratings
9% Negative
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
The Flash continues the CW's streak with the perfect mix of humor and gravity intrinsic to The Flash comics. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.83]
A very good-looking pilot. That leaves Gustin, which is where nagging doubts crop up.... Gustin's Allen is blue of eye and clear of conscience. Sweet and gentle, he's immensely likable but not particularly intriguing, unlike Stephen Amell's Oliver Queen or even Tom Welling's Clark Kent.
In all, The Flash pilot is an entertaining hour. It doesn't ask for too much of its audience except to sit back and let the new adventure unfold.
This more comicbook-y entry could be another solid anchor from sibling DC Comics.
Depending on your POV and perhaps your age, the show is either rather bland or exactly what you’d expect from the CW.
I liked the first season of Flash very much. It's touching, driving. This is the best season for me.
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SEASON 1
“The Flash” is the plucky little brother that watches its reckless older brother crash the station wagon, still loves the **** brother, but silently resolves to be the first member of the family to show basic competency. That’s right, “Arrow”, you are the glowering, teenage, Hot Topic brother in this scenario. You act tough. You act like you want to be Batman. Are you Batman, “Arrow”? Maybe George Clooney Batman. Maybe Batman on ice. You grit your teeth and playact the dark anti-hero, but underneath your inexplicably green hood you are a sensitive family drama just too full of masculine pride and market research to be true 2 U. “The Flash” just wants to be good and nice, and is good and nice. The kind of honesty makes “The Flash” the opposite of Hot Topic. What more could one ask to achieve? I mean… it still has the emotional depth of overexcited fan fiction, but “The Flash” knows that it is creating a warm hearth of escapism, so it focuses on things it knows it can make you care about, like Barry’s relationship with his adopted family. It knows that everything else is silly and toothless, so the action stays upbeat and intentionally cartoony. It is a kid’s show, but it is a very well developed and thoughtfully paced kid’s show full of likable people and their little adventures. Maybe “Arrow” will take a hint from its little brother and stop trying to take itself seriously. Maybe it’ll just get angry and jealous, slam the bedroom door, and go back to playing “Assassin’s Creed”. Maybe “Super Girl” will make them both irrelevant. Maybe “The Flash” will find one of “Arrow”’s old pot brownies, freak out, and transfer to art school. We live in an amazing world.
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SEASON 1
The Flash started out as a very well done TV adaptation of the DC comic series. However, it has degenerated into the usual morass of filth and mindless repeat programming that all networks seem to thrive on. The show, after the first couple of seasons, which were original and well done, now features adulterous sexual scenes for our youth to emulate, superfluous **** which is injected into a scene but which has nothing to do with the object of the show, and show plots that are no more than mirror images of previous plots showing the poor and limited imagination of the writers and directors. This superhero, like those before him, is not faithful to the original intent of the DC comic series. The writers ought to be ashamed of themselves and the cast has lowered their standards by emulating yet another soap opera with all of it's drama and bleeding heart personality quirks in true modern super hero style. Has judgment day arrived on planet earth?
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