TV #20 of 2017: Arrow, season 5 Arrow honestly had an amazing season this year. It’s kind of hard to believe after how weak the past two had been, especially when you consider that the main novelty this season was adding a new batch of lower-tier comics characters like Wild Dog for the Green Arrow …
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TV Review: The Flash, season 3
TV #18 of 2017: The Flash, season 3 The Flash is kind of in a weird place right now, where it’s trying to be both as comic-book-bonkers as DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and as dark and brooding as their big brother Arrow. So as a result you have this show where there are time remnants …
TV Review: Supergirl, season 2
TV #17 of 2017: Supergirl, season 2 Kind of an uneven season, but then, I think at this point we just have to accept that Supergirl is kind of an uneven show. It continues to be unabashedly 100% girl-power in a way that I think is probably amazing for the smaller girls and boys who …
TV Review: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, season 2
TV #12 of 2017: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, season 2 This show is still goofy as hell, but this season is a big improvement over the first one. Mostly that’s because it finally leans into the wacky fun of the premise, offering up loads of the ridiculous comic book stuff that its more serious sister …
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TV Review: Vixen, season 2
TV #47 of 2016: Vixen, season 2 This is still a pretty lightweight entry in the CW Arrowverse, to the point where I’m not even sure if it’s fully canonical or not. (It doesn’t help that each “season” is about 45 minutes long, and it’s hard to remember individual “episodes” when they’re only a few …
TV Review: Arrow, season 4
TV #32 of 2016: Arrow, season 4 Damien Dahrk was absolutely the sort of magnetic, scenery-chewing villain that Arrow needed after last season’s tired Ra’s al Ghul arc. But with the exception of Dahrk, this season still struggled to hit the heights of Arrow’s first two years. It would make sense for the next season …
TV Review: The Flash, season 2
TV #30 of 2016: The Flash, season 2 Zoom wasn’t quite as compelling a villain as last season’s Reverse Flash, partly because his master plan never really made much sense. But this season still delivered a lot of fun with its new multiverse setting, so on the whole I’d call it a success. I’m not …
TV Review: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, season 1
TV #29 of 2016: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, season 1 I hate to say it, but this latest Arrow spinoff was a complete and utter trainwreck. I kept watching for the shared continuity with the Arrowverse (and, okay, for Caity Lotz and Wentworth Miller), but I’m not sure if I can put up with another …
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TV Review: Arrow, season 3
TV #22 of 2015: Arrow, season 3 Although this season of Arrow does some much-needed rehabilitation of Thea and Laurel and gives us the joyous piece of human sunshine Ray Palmer for a hot second before he jumps ship to the new Arrowverse spinoff, overall it’s a bit of a letdown of illogical storytelling and …
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