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The Flash Season 2: The Good, The Bad And The Weird

It would seem that fans and critics alike have come to a unanimous consensus that while season two of The Flash was entertaining, it was nowhere near as good as its confident debut. This year, the show lost some of its initial charm that made it such an immediate draw due to some messy plotting in the first half of the season, the unfair but very real comparisons made between this year’s villain Zoom and last year's big bad the Reverse Flash, and the feeling that The Flash was maybe skittering a little too close to Arrow’s melodramatic tone.

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Bad: Patty Spivot

Speaking of a waste of screentime, do any of us even recall Patty Spivot at this point? If there is something I would be happy to never see again it’s romantic subplots that add nothing to the momentum of the overall show.

Some series thrive on romance and some don’t; The Flash is one of the latter. Barry and Iris are clearly the “meant to be” pairing and it’d be a lot more interesting to showcase a healthy and happy relationship and have the drama come from elsewhere. Like, you know, with the villains and such.

Also worth noting is that Patty Spivot’s inclusion highlighted just how poorly The Flash handles writing storylines for more than one female character at a time.

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Bad: The Villain

Let’s circle back to Teddy Sears and his dual performances, because it’s worth nothing that neither of them left a mark. Sure, he had the unfavorable position of following up Tom Cavanagh’s impressively chilling performance as the Reverse Flash, but even that doesn’t explain his bland and hammy performance as the season’s big bad.

On top of that, Zoom’s motives were never defined clearly enough for us to care about what he did and why. This deflated all the goodwill that his more mysterious and brutal introductions had generated, with the scene of him dragging Barry around the city defeated and humiliated remaining the high point of his entire tenure as lead villain.