The Flash Season 1 Ep 5 (TV Show Review)

CW’s latest, The Flash, has been going all-out of late, as the previous episode proved when Leonard Snart and Mick Rory aka Captain Cold and Heat Wave made their live-action debuts. Given that the season premiere kicked off with The Rogues staple Weather Wizard, it was pretty much a given that the supervillain team would find its way to the show eventually. The fact that this is happening so soon, is great news for fans everywhere. But that’s not all of course, because there are also the mysteries surrounding Harrison Wells and his nefarious plans, which became clearer in this week’s episode.

“Plastique” introduces us to Bette Sans Souci, a relatively young soldier in the American Army with specialty in bomb-disposals. She is one of the many people caught in the Dark Matter Wave when the STAR Labs Particle Accelerator exploded bomb shrapnel that had injured her on a mission bonded to her on a genetic level. This is one of the best episodes yet because it presents another alternative to killing or imprisoning metahumans. Plastique herself makes for a fairly interesting character though her time on the show is cut rather short, but not before she sets the stage for one of actor Clancy Brown’s greatest appearances to date and also an amazing cliffhanger.

Agents of SHIELD Season 2 Ep 7 (TV Show Review)

Last week’s episode was pretty damn intense, especially with that killer ending when Grant Ward escaped the government troops who took over custody of him from Coulson’s SHIELD agents. Throughout the episode, we were treated to one twist after another as we saw how Grant and his brother Senator Christian Ward manipulated the people around them to get what they wanted. And we got some great dynamics between two of the team’s recent additions, Bobbi and Lance, which was pretty damn great. Going forward, the implications were pretty clear.

This week’s “The Writing on the Wall” is set in the aftermath of Ward’s escape and what the team is doing about it. Moreover, a big chunk of the episode is taken up with the strange alien carvings that Coulson has been doing for a while now, writings which drove John Garrett crazy last season and which seem to have affected at least one more person as of a certain cliffhanger a while back this season. More flashbacks to the days of the TAHITI project mean that this episode is all-out awesome and we finally get a true idea of what the entire project was really all about.

Note: This review contains spoiler speculation about the ending of this episode, a possible spoiler about at least one upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie.