TV Review: The Flash S2E5 The Darkness and the Light

The Flash Season 2Barry learns a new breacher, Dr. Light, has come through the portal and sets off to capture her. Jay tells Barry that Dr. Light was not a threat on Earth-2 and that Barry can reason with her. However, during a fight with The Flash, she blinds him and drops some shocking news about Zoom. Meanwhile, Barry and Patty go out on a date.

Tonight’s episode is really Earth 2 focused as the crux of the tension isn’t just dealing with a new meta human from that Earth, but also Garrick and Well’s conflict. The episode peals back a decent amount of information so we can learn more about the alternate Earth and what happened before hand.

It also asks a lot of questions too, like where did its meta humans come from, and is Wells good, bad, in the middle?

The big bad tonight is Doctor Light, the female version, which continues bringing in characters from Barry’s world in as powered bad guys. It’s a little entertaining and a great reuse of characters and actors.

The heart of the episode though focuses on Barry and Cisco who both are dealing with their personal lives and trying to date. Both provide a lot of cute moments that many of us can related to, and it also provides some great humor as well.

There’s an awesome reveal that I hope goes far, but The Flash continues to be a nicely paced full of color, fun show.

Overall Rating: 8.5


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