The Flash Season 1 Ep 10 (TV Show Review)

About 10 days ago, news hit the web that CW had finally gone ahead and renewed The Flash for a second season, and to go along with that we also learned that Arrow had been renewed for a fourth season. Phenomenal stuff. With all the new records that The Flash has set and with all the continuous positive buzz it has generated since the start, this was inevitable, but it is also great to see that the higher-ups also fully believe in the show. And well they should, because the first nine episodes were an awesome rollercoaster ride and the mid-season finale was totally awesome, by any metric you care to measure it by.

It is time for the mid-season premiere though, and Revenge of the Rogues has all the right feels for an episode that brings back a previous villain, and also introduces a new one, while also moving several other stories forward simultaneously and setting up yet more surprises for future episodes. In the wake of learning about the Man In The Yellow Suit, Barry has been working himself hard to up his abilities, to run faster, move faster, think faster. The Reverse-Flash showed him up again and again, and for their next confrontation, Barry wants to be ready. But when Captain Cold returns, this time with his friend and partner Heat Wave in tow, that’s when the show takes a huge step up to show that Barry Allen is every bit the same kind of guy we saw in the first episode, and that despite everything he has seen and done since his transformation, there are things about him that haven’t changed.