The Flash Season 2: 8 Ups And 2 Downs From 'The Race Of His Life'

Zoom finally gets his just desserts, whilst the Man in the Iron Mask is too much.

The Flash Season 2 Finale
The CW

So there we have it: Season 2 of The CW's The Flash is now in the books.

Overall, the season as a whole was a hugely enjoyable, and the same can be said about the season finale. With Zoom's plan for multiverse domination and destruction coming to a head, it was down to the Scarlet Speedster to delve deep into his bag of tricks in order to try and take down the rogue who has troubled him this year and who last week killed Barry's pops.

As ever with a good season finale, there's a multiple payoffs here; the 'big bad' gets what's coming to him, the Man in the Iron Mask is revealed, the hero finally gets the girl, and the SFX work is amped up to 11. Added to that, though, the show went one further by its final moments and potentially had Barry Allen changing the world as he knows it. Can anyone say Flashpoint Paradox? It looks like it's coming...

The Race of His Life was an explosive and fitting way to end this season of The Flash, and it was largely a triumph. That's not to say that there wasn't just a couple of missteps along the way, though, so let's take a look at what the episode got right and what it maybe could've handled better.

10. Ups...

The Flash Season 2 Finale
The CW

Grant Gustin's Performance

Whereas it maybe took Stephen Amell a good few months to really get into the skin of Oliver Queen, Grant Gustin hit the ground running as Barry Allen. Even though he’s regularly encapsulated the definitive Barry, his performance here was the former Glee actor’s best turn as the Scarlet Speedster to date.

As soon as The Race of His Life opens, we picked up the ball where the previous episode left off, with Henry Allen killed by Zoom, but it’s Gustin’s anguish-etched face that really hit home what was happening and set the tone for what lay ahead.

The emotion on show from Gustin here was phenomenal and got the Season 2 finale off to a hard-hitting start for the Sultan of Speed and for those watching at home.

Gustin would display a whole variety of emotions as the finale went on, and he deserves a hell of a lot of credit for the fantastic job he did here.

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