Cold hard facts: I don't love The Flash the way I used to, and that probably shows in the quality of my recent episode reviews. As a result, the average readership for my reviews is a third of what it used to be. So, rather than continue on like I have been out of routine I've decided to stop reviewing The Flash. Even as I write this I am watching tonight's episode, "The Once and Future Flash," and...it's fine. Really, it is (well, not so much future-Barry's terrible wig). But I'd much rather be watching something on Netflix. I already know from several readers that they quit Flash quite a while ago, fed up with the show's continued mistreatment of its female characters and ongoing insistence that everyone bend over backward to fawn over Barry.
More than that, it's just never made sense for me to be writing weekly reviews of Arrow and Flash on a site called WeMinoredInFilm.com, particularly once I started reviewing all manner of movies, not just the comic book ones and blockbusters. However, I kept it up because I genuinely liked the shows, and my Arrow reviews are what put me on the map. But as I look at Flash season 3 I see a lot of me simply making the same complaints over and over again - the Killer Frost storyline makes no sense, the time travel logic is too illogical, I don't give a fuck about Savitar's identity just like I didn't care about Teddy Sears last season, eye roll over yet another "just run faster than the other guy, Barry," must someone on the show always be hiding a secret from everyone else for no good reason, etc.
In truth, it's likely Flash is roughly as good it's always been, and my tastes have simply changed. I'm all for goofy, lighthearted TV shows, but there are so many other genre TV shows out there which have more depth to them than The Flash, which is ultimately a Silver Age comic come to life and told through a Greg Berlanti prism where everything is big and bright and desperately lacking in nuance. I truly loved it for a good long while, but...yeah, I'm out.
To those who've stuck with me, thank you and I apologize for throwing in the towel now. If you're disappointed in my decision let me know in the comments. As a bitter-ender, I'll likely drop back in on the show in a couple of weeks to see how all of the season 3 storylines resolve, and if something insane happens I might be moved to write about it. But for now it's time to move on.
At least we'll always have that heartbreaking season 1 finale:
