The Flash Season 5: 6 Ups & 1 Down From ‘Blocked’

This is shaping up to be a great season.

The Flash S5 Ep2 Ups Downs
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Contains spoilers for The Flash Season 5, Episode 2.

The Flash made its triumphant return to The CW last week, officially introducing us to Barry and Iris' time-travelling daughter Nora West-Allen while setting up an intriguing storyline revolving around a future Crisis.

With all of the table-setting out of the way, this week's episode, titled 'Blocked', saw the Scarlet Speedster attempt to train Nora, in order to transform her into a more efficient superhero. However, as this is Central City, it didn't take long for a villainous metahuman to make their presence felt.

Speaking of terrifying metahumans, the episode also gave us more of an in-depth look at this year's Big Bad, Cicada - officially revealing what he looks (and sounds) like - as he showed up for an impromptu battle with Team Flash.

It was a quirky and enjoyable outing that also managed to add some much-needed clarity to the show's main narrative, while saving some valuable screen-time for underappreciated characters. Despite a minor storyline issue, the episode itself was a strong follow up that didn't veer too far off course in its attempts to be fun.

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