This The Flash: Armageddon article contains spoilers.
The Flash Season 8 Episode 2
Something is very wrong in the world of The Flash. Star Labs as we know it may well be gone. Gideon has been deactivated. A major character appears to be dead. And Barry seems to be unraveling, right before our eyes.
Look, when the three-eyed villain Despero showed up in the first part of the series’ new Armageddon event, threatening to kill Barry because he’ll apparently cause some sort of cataclysmic event a decade from now, we probably all pretty much shrugged. (Be honest!) Barry Allen is a good guy, one of the purest characters in the Arrowverse, there’s no way he’s going to start randomly attacking people in the very city he’s sworn to protect and burning it to the ground.
Except, what if maybe…he is? What if he’s not going...
The Flash Season 8 Episode 2
Something is very wrong in the world of The Flash. Star Labs as we know it may well be gone. Gideon has been deactivated. A major character appears to be dead. And Barry seems to be unraveling, right before our eyes.
Look, when the three-eyed villain Despero showed up in the first part of the series’ new Armageddon event, threatening to kill Barry because he’ll apparently cause some sort of cataclysmic event a decade from now, we probably all pretty much shrugged. (Be honest!) Barry Allen is a good guy, one of the purest characters in the Arrowverse, there’s no way he’s going to start randomly attacking people in the very city he’s sworn to protect and burning it to the ground.
Except, what if maybe…he is? What if he’s not going...
- 11/24/2021
- by Lacy Baugher
- Den of Geek
This week on The Flash, Barry shrugged off talk that his mind would “crack” — until it began to do just that.
Picking up, almost jarringly so, right where Part 1 left off, Despero was whaling on Barry — not to vanquish the future threat just yet, but to assess what it will take once the time comes. Barry asks how it could be that someone who has saved his city so many times could ever unleash Armageddon, and Despero explains that Barry will suffer “a new despair” that caps an “unbroken chain of sorrow,” and as a result his “mind will crack.
Picking up, almost jarringly so, right where Part 1 left off, Despero was whaling on Barry — not to vanquish the future threat just yet, but to assess what it will take once the time comes. Barry asks how it could be that someone who has saved his city so many times could ever unleash Armageddon, and Despero explains that Barry will suffer “a new despair” that caps an “unbroken chain of sorrow,” and as a result his “mind will crack.
- 11/24/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
The Flash dealt out another filler episode, much to our dismay but was it better than The Flash Season 7 Episode 13?
Unfortunately, The Flash Season 7 Episode 14 was no more successful than its predecessor.
Ultraviolet returned, and Allegra was convinced that she could redeem her cousin thanks to Barry's influence. However, all that was accomplished was digging up the past and rehashing old storylines that we thought were long forgotten.
Allegra was the star of the hour, as was her troubled relationship with Ultraviolet -- Aka Esperanza.
Her boss's husband inspired her to change Esperanza's heart and bring her over to the good side. After all, it is in Team Flash's nature to never give up on people.
To them, everyone is redeemable.
Barry: ...I'm zooping Iris away for a little vacation. Actually, it was Chester's idea. You remember?
Chester: Can't forget. As much as I'd like to.
Permalink: Can't forget.
Unfortunately, The Flash Season 7 Episode 14 was no more successful than its predecessor.
Ultraviolet returned, and Allegra was convinced that she could redeem her cousin thanks to Barry's influence. However, all that was accomplished was digging up the past and rehashing old storylines that we thought were long forgotten.
Allegra was the star of the hour, as was her troubled relationship with Ultraviolet -- Aka Esperanza.
Her boss's husband inspired her to change Esperanza's heart and bring her over to the good side. After all, it is in Team Flash's nature to never give up on people.
To them, everyone is redeemable.
Barry: ...I'm zooping Iris away for a little vacation. Actually, it was Chester's idea. You remember?
Chester: Can't forget. As much as I'd like to.
Permalink: Can't forget.
- 6/23/2021
- by Sarah Little
- TVfanatic
After solving the “incredible puzzle” that is filming amid a pandemic, The Flash wound up starting Season 7 even stronger than originally planned.
What is now The CW’s most senior Arrowverse series had to cut Season 6 short by three episodes, when production was halted almost a year ago. A version of those leftover episodes will now launch Season 7 on Tuesday, March 2, and soon enough close the book on Graphic Novel No. 3 (which saw Efrat Dor’s Eva McCulloch trap Candice Patton’s Iris West inside the Mirrorverse).
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What is now The CW’s most senior Arrowverse series had to cut Season 6 short by three episodes, when production was halted almost a year ago. A version of those leftover episodes will now launch Season 7 on Tuesday, March 2, and soon enough close the book on Graphic Novel No. 3 (which saw Efrat Dor’s Eva McCulloch trap Candice Patton’s Iris West inside the Mirrorverse).
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- 2/28/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Hartley Sawyer’s sudden firing from The Flash couldn’t have come at a more inconvenient time for the show, which was in the midst of a major new storyline for Ralph Dibny when season 6 wrapped up. Sue Dearbon, as played by Natalie Dreyfuss, had just been introduced, beginning the classic comic book romance between the Elongated Man and his future wife.
While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Eric Wallace confirmed that Ralph will be written out of the series following Sawyer’s exit. However, fans don’t need to worry about Sue as she’ll continue to have a recurring presence in season 7. Wallace admitted it was a bit of a challenge to come up with a way for her to return without Ralph, but he’s happy with what the writers have devised.
“You’re going to see Sue more than once this year even without the Elongated Man — on her own,...
While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Eric Wallace confirmed that Ralph will be written out of the series following Sawyer’s exit. However, fans don’t need to worry about Sue as she’ll continue to have a recurring presence in season 7. Wallace admitted it was a bit of a challenge to come up with a way for her to return without Ralph, but he’s happy with what the writers have devised.
“You’re going to see Sue more than once this year even without the Elongated Man — on her own,...
- 8/25/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
The CW’s hit series, The Flash, left many fans wanting after the credits rolled on the most recent finale. Due to the current worldwide health crisis, filming couldn’t be completed and with a truncated episode count, the show was forced to leave a number of plot threads dangling.
The season came to an end with the most recent big bad, Eva McCulloch/Mirror Master, soundly defeating Team Flash. She successfully murdered her husband, Joseph Carver, and set up Sue Dearbon to take the fall. She also publicly regained control of her company and forced Barry to use most, if not all, of his remaining speed.
Needless to say, this was not the finale that most were expecting. And while many fans were left scratching their heads, showrunner Eric Wallace actually saw the last-minute adjustments as something of a blessing in disguise, as it allowed for the production to shake things up a little.
The season came to an end with the most recent big bad, Eva McCulloch/Mirror Master, soundly defeating Team Flash. She successfully murdered her husband, Joseph Carver, and set up Sue Dearbon to take the fall. She also publicly regained control of her company and forced Barry to use most, if not all, of his remaining speed.
Needless to say, this was not the finale that most were expecting. And while many fans were left scratching their heads, showrunner Eric Wallace actually saw the last-minute adjustments as something of a blessing in disguise, as it allowed for the production to shake things up a little.
- 6/29/2020
- by John Mason
- We Got This Covered
This article contains The Flash spoilers.
So much about The Flash Season 6 has been about taking risks and telling new kinds of stories. From its split season “graphic novel” format to its long-overdue focus on female characters, the show has been charting the sort of refreshingly exciting path that most series in their sixth year simply don’t bother even attempting.
The result? Season 6 is arguably the best overall outing of The Flash in recent years, radiating a new vision and energy that not even a coronavirus pandemic-enforced early ending could diminish. And of the biggest reasons for that has been its villains. Yes, really.
A show that frequently struggled to give Barry Allen compelling bad guys to fight who weren’t named Eobard Thawne, The Flash completely overhauled its approach to Big Bads in Season 6 and instead focused on smaller stories with more relatable, human elements. The show first...
So much about The Flash Season 6 has been about taking risks and telling new kinds of stories. From its split season “graphic novel” format to its long-overdue focus on female characters, the show has been charting the sort of refreshingly exciting path that most series in their sixth year simply don’t bother even attempting.
The result? Season 6 is arguably the best overall outing of The Flash in recent years, radiating a new vision and energy that not even a coronavirus pandemic-enforced early ending could diminish. And of the biggest reasons for that has been its villains. Yes, really.
A show that frequently struggled to give Barry Allen compelling bad guys to fight who weren’t named Eobard Thawne, The Flash completely overhauled its approach to Big Bads in Season 6 and instead focused on smaller stories with more relatable, human elements. The show first...
- 5/17/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
The Flash season 6 ended with the Mirror Mistress undefeated and the overarching plot still unresolved, as a consequence of production being shut down before it was supposed to. What this means is that we’ve got months to theorize about what could happen next in Team Flash’s ongoing battle with Eva McCulloch. For one, we know that Iris is still stuck in the Mirrorverse. But what if she’s not the only one? What if Barry is, too, and the one we’ve been watching is really a duplicate?
That’s the wild idea this theory suggested by ScreenRant runs with, but there is actually a fair amount of evidence to back it up in the last few episodes of season 6. To start with, episode 19 “Success is Assured” saw Barry confronted with Mirror Singh who, on behalf of Eva, offered to release Iris if Team Flash let her kill her husband,...
That’s the wild idea this theory suggested by ScreenRant runs with, but there is actually a fair amount of evidence to back it up in the last few episodes of season 6. To start with, episode 19 “Success is Assured” saw Barry confronted with Mirror Singh who, on behalf of Eva, offered to release Iris if Team Flash let her kill her husband,...
- 5/16/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
2020 is the darkest timeline, which is why The Flash season finale came three episodes earlier than it was supposed to, with little to no idea of when the show will return to finish the story, or tell any others. This is especially unfortunate given the fact that The Flash Season 6 has been one of the strongest overall outings of the show in recent years. It’s introduced not one, but two intriguing and complex new villains. It brought on one of the most long-awaited characters in series history. It remembered it had female characters, and gave them stories accordingly. Almost every major player had something significant to do this year, and the entire show seemed to radiate a new energy and sense of purpose.
Naturally, this is also the year that a global pandemic would shut down production.
“Success is Assured” wasn’t initially intended to serve as The Flash season finale,...
Naturally, this is also the year that a global pandemic would shut down production.
“Success is Assured” wasn’t initially intended to serve as The Flash season finale,...
- 5/13/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This article contains The Flash spoilers if you aren’t all caught up through episode 18 of season six.
Save for Season 1’s Eobard Thawne – who also happens to be Barry Allen’s most iconic nemesis – The Flash has often struggled to craft compelling villains. From Zoom to Savitar and both versions of Cicada, the bad guys on this show tend to be fairly one-note, with goals that are generally straightforward and often not all that interesting. Steal Barry’s speed! Murder Iris! Take over the world with a weirdo brain helmet! Yawn.
The Flash Season 6 has worked diligently to reverse this trend, first with Ramsey Rosso’s Bloodwork, a villain driven by a fear of death and his own mortality rather than a lust for power and now in Eva McCulloch, a woman trapped in an alternate dimension for six years, who just wants to get back the life she left behind.
Save for Season 1’s Eobard Thawne – who also happens to be Barry Allen’s most iconic nemesis – The Flash has often struggled to craft compelling villains. From Zoom to Savitar and both versions of Cicada, the bad guys on this show tend to be fairly one-note, with goals that are generally straightforward and often not all that interesting. Steal Barry’s speed! Murder Iris! Take over the world with a weirdo brain helmet! Yawn.
The Flash Season 6 has worked diligently to reverse this trend, first with Ramsey Rosso’s Bloodwork, a villain driven by a fear of death and his own mortality rather than a lust for power and now in Eva McCulloch, a woman trapped in an alternate dimension for six years, who just wants to get back the life she left behind.
- 5/11/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Everything is finally coming together.
All the different aspects that have made up the second half of The Flash Season 6 started to weave together on The Flash Season 6 Episode 16 to form one cohesive, promising story.
And it can all be traced back to Joseph Carver.
Carver is an exciting villain to have on a show that has mainly featured speedsters, or even just metahumans in general as the Big Bads.
But it is a refreshing and welcome change as Carver uses his money and resources to thwart Team Flash and try to make his vision -- whatever that might be -- a reality.
Carver: It even sounds like you're saying I hired someone to pop out of a box to assassinate you.
Joe: I didn't say that Rag Doll popped out of a box.
Carver: Damn. And I was doing so well.
Permalink: Damn. And I was doing so well.
All the different aspects that have made up the second half of The Flash Season 6 started to weave together on The Flash Season 6 Episode 16 to form one cohesive, promising story.
And it can all be traced back to Joseph Carver.
Carver is an exciting villain to have on a show that has mainly featured speedsters, or even just metahumans in general as the Big Bads.
But it is a refreshing and welcome change as Carver uses his money and resources to thwart Team Flash and try to make his vision -- whatever that might be -- a reality.
Carver: It even sounds like you're saying I hired someone to pop out of a box to assassinate you.
Joe: I didn't say that Rag Doll popped out of a box.
Carver: Damn. And I was doing so well.
Permalink: Damn. And I was doing so well.
- 4/22/2020
- by Sarah Little
- TVfanatic
Grodd is back, but he's definitely not the gorilla we all remember.
According to him, his time spent in a coma at Argus and the effects of Crisis made him a changed gorilla.
The Flash Season 6 Episode 13 was by far the best Gorilla Grodd hour that we have seen. And thanks to a recap of Grodd's time on The Flash, we were reminded of how many times he has shown up to mess with Team Flash.
The gorilla aspect was not played out too much as to be cheesy, which is where it has gone in the past, and many other, emotionally driven storylines were weaved throughout the hour to make for a surprisingly great episode..
Grodd spent his time with Barry in his mindscape trying to convince him to believe that he is now good.
Barry, being stubborn as always and weary as a result of past trauma, refused...
According to him, his time spent in a coma at Argus and the effects of Crisis made him a changed gorilla.
The Flash Season 6 Episode 13 was by far the best Gorilla Grodd hour that we have seen. And thanks to a recap of Grodd's time on The Flash, we were reminded of how many times he has shown up to mess with Team Flash.
The gorilla aspect was not played out too much as to be cheesy, which is where it has gone in the past, and many other, emotionally driven storylines were weaved throughout the hour to make for a surprisingly great episode..
Grodd spent his time with Barry in his mindscape trying to convince him to believe that he is now good.
Barry, being stubborn as always and weary as a result of past trauma, refused...
- 2/26/2020
- by Sarah Little
- TVfanatic
This week on The Flash, Barry and Grodd grew closer than you ever thought possible, while we gleaned new details about both Eva and the “Evil” Iris. Also, who/what is haunting Nash?
Having been unable to relocate his parents’ post-Crisis graves, following an odd run-in with (a flying!) Pied Piper and after nearly getting mowed down by a train on tracks that weren’t there before, Barry tasks Gideon with calculating all of the changes to the world — and the tally is 3.725 trillion. Later, Barry goes to try out an updated mobile, earpiece version of Gideon but an aggressive upgrade that Chester P.
Having been unable to relocate his parents’ post-Crisis graves, following an odd run-in with (a flying!) Pied Piper and after nearly getting mowed down by a train on tracks that weren’t there before, Barry tasks Gideon with calculating all of the changes to the world — and the tally is 3.725 trillion. Later, Barry goes to try out an updated mobile, earpiece version of Gideon but an aggressive upgrade that Chester P.
- 2/26/2020
- TVLine.com
Still trapped in the mirror prison after last week’s episode of The Flash, Iris desperately tries to find a way home before her Mirror Clone can do any damage at home. Fortunately, Iris isn’t alone in her mirror prison. Eva McColloch (Efrat Dor), the co-founder of McColloch Technologies and wife of Black Hole leader Joseph Carver, has been trapped in […]...
- 2/19/2020
- by Bethany Lewis
- Monsters and Critics
Ever since Hartley Sawyer’s Ralph Dibny debuted on The Flash back in season 4, fans knew he was destined to meet his wife and partner in crime-solving on the show at some point. Season 5 ended with a tease that the future Mrs. Dibny was on the way and now, after Ralph has spent all season looking for her as part of a missing person’s case, Sue Dearborn is making her debut, in the suitably-titled “A Girl Named Sue.”
Ahead of the episode’s arrival next week, you can now catch your first look at Natalie Dreyfuss as Sue in the gallery below. “A Girl Named Sue” will also introduce another key character, though. Namely, Eva McCulloch, the gender-flipped second Mirror Master, who was teased in the midseason premiere, as played by Efrat Dor. It’s previously been revealed that Iris West-Allen will form a surprising alliance with the quantum engineer,...
Ahead of the episode’s arrival next week, you can now catch your first look at Natalie Dreyfuss as Sue in the gallery below. “A Girl Named Sue” will also introduce another key character, though. Namely, Eva McCulloch, the gender-flipped second Mirror Master, who was teased in the midseason premiere, as played by Efrat Dor. It’s previously been revealed that Iris West-Allen will form a surprising alliance with the quantum engineer,...
- 2/11/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Mirror, mirror, on the wall…. We actually have no rhyme here, but are simply wondering Wtf just happened on The Flash?
The CW series’ midseason opener found Barry traveling to Lian Yu with Arrow‘s John Diggle to investigate what was thought to maybe be a new Mirakuru threat, but instead was simply a message for Barry to slow down (so to speak) and enjoy life.
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The CW series’ midseason opener found Barry traveling to Lian Yu with Arrow‘s John Diggle to investigate what was thought to maybe be a new Mirakuru threat, but instead was simply a message for Barry to slow down (so to speak) and enjoy life.
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- 2/5/2020
- TVLine.com
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