The Flash: Ranking Every Season From Worst To Best

The Flash has become a staple of television over the past decade, quickly eclipsing its own parent show to become the most popular superhero series on television today.

A vehicle for DC Comics' Scarlet Speedster, it gave longtime fans of Barry Allen the chance to see him light up the small screen for the first time in decades, while also giving Arrow fans the chance to experience another new layer of the ever-growing Arrowverse. And what an ambitious layer it turned out to be.

Grant Gustin's leather-clad hero has been tearing up the pavement of Central City for over five years now and though there have been some roadblocks along the way, that hasn't stopped The CW series from amassing a loyal fanbase devoted to both the characters and the adventures they embark on each and every week.

Six seasons in, Barry and Team Flash have practically seen it all. Or maybe not as the show will return for a seventh at the beginning of next year. And with that in mind, let's take this hiatus period to reflect on all of its seasons thus far and ultimately see how they stack up against each other.

With the exception of Supergirl, it seems like every Arrowverse show is doomed to have a pretty poor fourth season. That's right, unfortunately even The Flash couldn't outrun destiny this time.

Following in its predecessor's footsteps, the show produced a third season that was both promising and problematic before trying far too hard to distance itself from it and producing a much worse follow-up in the process. Though not even remotely as low as Arrow's fourth offering, The Flash Season 4 still made a lot of the same mistakes as it attempted to channel some of what made the show such a success in the first place - only to unwittingly mistake its glorious light-heartedness for something that was much too corny.

Wally West's replacement with Ralph Dibny sparked controversy while Clifford DeVoe's overpowered nature resulted in a lot of depressingly repetitive episodes. Speaking of which, his reliance on the newly-established bus metas resulted in a deeply convoluted plan that provided the show with the means to produce an endless supply of villain-of-the-week episodes - each one devoted to a specific bus meta. And that, more than anything, made the season an absolute slog to get through.

There is one silver lining in the phenomenal 'Enter Flashtime' - which is one of the show's greatest hours - but not even that was enough to elevate this one from last place.