Hello once again, it's the long lost prodigy son with another post for you, this time not in the form of a rant but in a review. It's a new series I'd like to do where I review movies and tv series and put in my two cents.
So here I am again, beer in my hand, laptop on my lap and thought in my mind. I'm watching TV, Friends is on, and I thought, I should do a review of a TV show... I'm going to review The flash, all the way to season 3 from season 1, and be careful, spoilers ahead.
So let's start things off in season 1. The Flash is a CW DC TV show made in the continuity of the CW arrow universe. It's a more DC comic driven TV show and a lot less dark than Arrow so they could get a bigger audience, and they did. Season 1 starts off with Barry Allen, the protagonist learning to use his acquired powers of super speed. It starts of simple and doesn't go to deep on comic stuff but has his references here and there. The story of season 1 is driven through Barry learning about his speed and later starting from the middle of the season, him chasing the man in yellow, A notorious speedster who killed Barry's mother as a child and will be the big bad of the season. Like Most CW DC TV shows the plot is driven towards the big bad and the finale against this big bad and The flash isn't different.
Now there is quite a lot of drama in the shows. Barry lost his mother, his father is blamed and put in prison and the team he's working with is no different. He works with Caitlin snow who lost her fiance in the star labs generated storm that gave Barry his powers, Cisco Ramon who is a misfit and struggles with his family, and Doctor Harrison Wells, who created the Star Labs generated storm and landed in a wheelchair because of it.
So showing the main plot I won't go too much into details of the show itself and will start with the review. (spoilers ahead)
The acting of the actors is incredible. Actor Tom Cavanagh (Harrison Wells) Plays his role brilliantly. It is quite obvious he is a shady character from the beginning yet the reveal of him being the big bad is very well done. He comes over exactly as supposed to and is presented as a dark character and he plays it wonderfully. Grant Gustin (Barry Allen) can sometimes come over as uncomfortable but I feel that's part of his character, the rest of the acting is well done.
Now a big part that I love about the show is the science in it. A large heap of science comes forth in the series and I think it's fascinating how it comes forth and explains certain things like parallel earths and butterfly effects.
Moving on to season 2, more drama happened and now a new villain appeared: Zoom. In my opinion Zoom is threatening, dark, creepy and he feels like a villain. The budget is slightly better and they can do more comic related stuff. The characters get developed more and there's the usual bit of drama. The reveal of who the Zoom character was, was done sloppy, and could have been explained better. It was not properly explained why he was doing what he's doing and his motives are quite unexplained.
The acting once more is brilliant, the science is taken to the next level and more comic stuff is done if you're into that. there's some plotholes and sloppy writing but it's quite decent.
Now the third season is where more problems start to develop.
Once again there's a big bad, and once again Barry can't defeat him because he's inferior in every way. There's some major plotholes and they don't go into science heavy stuff a lot which in my opinion made the show awesome. They start the season off with changing everything, breaking a lot of character progression, a big bad comes along because of Barry's mistakes, there is some drama, and it's somewhat repetitive. In it's defence, in the late season the show gets better again. The reveal of the big bad is done brilliantly and after every episode I was theorizing about something which I think is great.
Conclusion: The Flash is a Good TV show, Great if you're a superhero or comic book fan, Decent if you're not, it's fun to watch, it has some comedy and silly moments and a lot of serious and dramatic moments which are played fairly good. It starts to get a bit of repetitive later and the problem is the same with every season (Barry is too slow) but it gets better later on in the season. Out of personal opinion I would rate the Show a 7.5 out of 10 and would definitely recommend it.
