Since I started reviewing things on IMDB, there have been several series I've come across that required a lot of fortitude for me to finish. I'm usually pretty stubborn about that sort of thing so across the board, I stuck with it and saw each of them through (sometimes) to the bitter end. As it turns out, I finally met my match with The Flash. My review is not dissimilar to countless others I've read on this app. The series starts out strong. Grant Gustin is the perfect Flash! They surround him with a group of excellent supporting characters that all have well developed plot lines. Much like I've mentioned with numerous shows, the age of 23 episodes per season was the undoing of many potentially great series. That is just too much content to cram down an audience's throat each year. The Flash was no different. Somewhere around the beginning of Season Four, I started to lose interest. The series had become formulaic, mundane and they started turning it into a star vehicle for Iris. In the past I've taken breaks and gone back to finish the show; however, every time I tried to pick up The Flash again, I just couldn't do it. I was over it. The series had a lot of potential and I have no doubt that if they only had to come up with ten episodes per season then it would have been much more interesting over time. Instead it petered out and will only stick in my memory as the first series that I couldn't finish because I was just too bored and valued my time more. If James Gunn is smart he will collapse Gustin into the DCEU, because he is the perfect Flash and deserves to play the role on a grander stage out from underneath the cloud of the CW and Iris West-Allen.
Review of The Flash
