Jessica Parker Kennedy is an immediately welcome addition to Team Flash. Barry’s selflessness (and really, the selflessness that pretty much all of Team Flash displays) has always been the emotional core of this show when things are going right, and I feel like seeing it spotlighted here in a subtle way is a good omen for this season.īut you don’t name an episode after a character if you don’t intend to spotlight her. But Barry takes this news less as a tragedy for himself, but more as to how it affects Nora. He gets some devastating news this episode, but for once, it has to do with him and not the people around him.
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Barry is free of the usual self-doubt and soul searching that has characterized most of his arcs, but also free of the irritating swagger that sometimes comes along with that.
This is exactly the kind of scene that could have gone wrong last year, and instead (other than the unfortunate and unwelcome revelation that Cecile’s powers have stuck around), it’s a perfect way to get everyone centered before the weirdness and fun begins.Īs befits the fact that they are suddenly the parents of an adult child, this is by far the most mature Barry and Iris the show has ever given us. “Nora” literally picks up seconds after the season four finale ended, with the mysterious Nora West-Allen trying to explain herself to a roomful of semi-drunk Team Flash members.
These shows more or less function in real time week to week.
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Often with all of the CW DC TV shows, there’s a time jump of some kind at the start of the season. The Flash has always been (and always will be) a superhero show at heart, but when the costumes are off, it feels more heavily sci-fi than ever, and I love it. Legends of Tomorrow did exactly this spectacularly last season, abandoning any pretense of being a DC superhero show and instead just going forth and being a bonkers sci-fi series. And perhaps most importantly, it’s only a superhero show when there’s superheroing to do, and the rest of the time it positively revels in the weirder elements of being what is now officially a long-running science fiction TV series. It manages to encompass everything the show did right last year, and get right back to focusing on what the show has done best throughout its run. “Flashpoint” was quite good, and I’ll admit that the season 4 opener got the job done just fine.īut The Flash Season 5 premiere, “Nora,” is a genuinely special episode. Season two laid the groundwork for the multiverse theme of the season but was ultimately forgettable. No season has ever laid out its mission statement as clearly and succinctly as “Nora” did, let alone felt so downright creative right out of the gate. Which is why I am so very pleased to report that “Nora” is not only an excellent episode, it’s the best The Flash season premiere in the show’s history. But seriously, I was so disappointed in last season that not even the finale, where the show has often managed to do its best work, was able to change my opinion of things.
Then again, I was in the minority who absolutely loved season three, so make of that what you will. I made no secret about my general disdain for the previous season of The Flash.
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