The Flash: Season 1 Review

I’m gonna be completely honest. I never read comics like that, but tv has always been a forte of mine and based on the commercials and subway ads I really thought the CW’s The Flash was gonna be trash. (Bars) It wasn’t until I saw a list of the highest rated new shows of 2014-15 and saw The Flash near the top of the list that I started to rethink my stance. Growing up with him as my favorite Justice Leaguer combined with some good reviews? I was sold like a bag of discounted bath salts in Florida. The show was broken up into two halves (presumably to conserve money in the case the show sucked and got cancelled early). Instead it became the highest rated show on CW because of the solid foundation they laid down early in the season. Our hero is Central City’s Barry Allen, who saw his mother killed by some mysterious lights and/or a man in yellow when he was a kid. Barry’s dad tried to save her life, being a doctor, but that got him locked up because the blood was on his hands when 5-0 arrived. All his life Barry has been doing everything in his power to figure out exactly what happened that night. He became a forensic scientist to get better at examining crime scenes and prove episodes of SVU wrong.

He squashed all feelings for girls and his adopted sister/lifelong crush.. and on the low wants to get down with the Unsullied. He was adopted by his dad’s chocolate homie, Joe West so he also gets tips on how to track down perps. He basically became the world’s greatest son with …