The Flash Season 8 Episode 19 Review

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This eighth season of The Flash has had a bit of an identity crisis. There are times when it appears that this particular season is a bit of a passing of the torch. There was even one episode where The Flash was entirely about Barry and Iris's kids. On the other hand, there have definitely been episodes where it appeared the focus was heading back to a territory where the Flash was at its absolute best. Sometimes the show can hop between those two focuses in the span of one episode.

To be clear, this time around, there was just a little bit of the passing of the torch to open the show. However, it was clear that this was really just about trying to set the stakes. The problem is that the show has bounced around so much and tried to tell the audience what was important and what wasn't so often that it's hard to know just what the stakes are and what viewers are supposed to care about at this point. Even when there was one moment in the show that was clearly supposed to elicit emotion, the series had a big problem in that it made it very clear that The Flash was working towards this all the time. Even when that moment came and there should have been a gasp and some real shock, it just felt as though it was something that was going to happen in some form all along.

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That isn't to say that the moment didn't set up at least one pretty decent surprise. Of course, as has been the case for most of the season with The Flash the surprise was mostly a surprise because it didn't make much sense. The show wanted to have a big turning point and reveal and so it got exactly that. It's not clear how exactly the situation specifically led to that moment or how the audience could