The Flash Recap: Race of His Life

Season 2 / Episode 22 / The CW And you say Central City! Now you know when they give you the WHOOOOLE season recap before the episode starts that some epic battles and traumatizing shit is going down in the season finale! So Zoom done chopped up Poppa Henry Allen, the second greatest dad on television, all up in Barry’s face. You know villains and their desire to turn all good things evil? Yeah, Zoom is on that tip. Barry sobbing all over the ’96 Ikea furniture and linens. Nah, let me stop being petty, this was some serious ass pain that Barry went through. He just got the ol’ man back and Zoom gets all maniacal on our boy.

That top notch race and battle through the streets though?! These show runners have perfected these scenes when they go down. The Flash eventually catches Zoom and starts putting the Bruce Lee BEATS on the Earth-2 evildoer. Filled with rage and vengeance, Barry is inches away from killing Zoom but holds back when Zoom slices through his own time remnant (that he had created seconds earlier during their race through the streets) and tells Barry that he’s almost ready. Uppercut dash and zoom out of there. They hold a beautiful ceremony for Henry Allen as the CW soft violin music soothes us and Joe delivers a heartfelt speech. Barry’s so caught up in his feelings he cant give a eulogy. Instead, all he can do is drop Euron Greyjoy lines over his father’s grave. “Where is my nemesis? Let’s go murder him.”

Then we got Wally who takes the first chance he gets, …