Jessie Robertson reviews the seventh episode of The Flash season 5…
The title totally confused me; I thought we were getting a Christmas episode early… nice work!
The Good:
– So there’s an interesting wrinkle in Cicada’s story; the girl in the coma is not actually his daughter – she was left to him by next of kin. In the flashback scenes, we start to see the rough edges of Chris Klein’s character soften and these are his best scenes on the show so far.
– Tense, tense scene with Nora trying to shock Barry back to life; this coupled with their ending reconciliation at the end during Thanksgiving just hits me in the Daddy-Daughter feels all day long
– The young girl is too cute!
– Watching people get hurt by the Enlightenment – Stupid Enlightenment!
– The Dr. hates metas? Hold that thought…
– “Sherloque… simple pronunciation”
– “I didn’t say all that” Iris when revealing her grandma’s amazing Yams were because she never washed the skillet when asked if she stopped eating them
– “Hmmm, Weather Witch” (seeing the name on her weather chasing van) – Caitlin “I’ll allow it” Cisco
The Not So Good:
– What’s up with the cheap effects when Weather Witch makes her debut? All throughout the episode they looked Power Rangers cheesy. Plus those doctored photos of her chasing storms is something out of a homemade parody video some teenager made. The storm effects at end were cool though.
– I kinda tuned out during the last battle scene honestly
– Weather Witch was sassy but that was it; she wanted to drop a car on him? Pretty messed up. Maron as Weather Wizard was always kind of dull and one note so bringing him back for a disturbing family reunion wasn’t drawing me in.
– Where’s Ralph?
– The Frost – Caitlin mix didn’t work for me at all during the last few scenes; she just seemed like Caitlin in makeup. That’s going to be a weird transition moving forward.
This felt like a filler episode; The West-Allen family dynamics continue to be the star here and there’s a lot of family therapy tied up in this episode alone with Nora’s abandonment issues coming to the front; pair that with Cicada’s own personal journey of becoming a surrogate parent and it seems like a solid episode; and it wasn’t bad but the villain of the week, while topical, didn’t do it for me.
Rating: 7.5/10
Jessie Robertson
