The Flash Season 7 Episode 1 Review: All’s Wells That Ends Wells
The Flash season 7 premieres on The CW with the first episode of its seventh season. Here’s how you can watch “All’s Well That Ends Wells” online.
This Tuesday, The Flash season 7 premieres on The CW. The long-running Arrowverse series has been off screens since May. Now, it finally returns with a new episode.
The show was forced to shut down production last season prematurely. This resulted in a truncated sixth season, with the 19th episode serving as the finale. Nonetheless, it left the show on an enticing cliffhanger that will no doubt be resolved in the coming episodes.
Granted, part of that is because this episode was more a celebration of Harrison Wells, writ large, than a showcase for this one particular incarnation, and the deft way it acknowledges the importance of this bizarre weirdo figure in all his multiverse guises to Barry’s life is really moving and well done. (Even if I will absolutely die on the hill that Earth-2 Harry was the best of all and should have stuck around.)
Both Gustin and Cavanagh shine here, as each juggles multiple roles within the hour with grace and heart. We so rarely get the chance to see Gustin be funny, and his revolving sequence of Wells impersonations was note-perfect, right down to Sherloque’s overbearing insistence on the correct way to pronounce his name. And he absolutely nailed the heart-wrenching stuff – his insistence that he doesn’t know how to be The Flash without a Wells on his team is precisely the kind of moment that makes this ensemble so great.
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It’s hard to believe that this is The Flash writing out Cavanagh completely, and it feels more likely than not that we’ll see him again, though it has to be at least even odds that it’s as an entirely new character. At least if Nash is really somehow gone for good, he went out as his best self, and you can’t ask for a better hero’s death than that, can you? (Though the way The Flash implies that Allegra should feel guilty for not getting to know a man who essentially stalked her because she looks like someone he once knew is…a choice?)
“All’s Wells That Ends Wells” picks up pretty much where we left things in Season 6’s “Success is Assured”: Iris is still trapped in the Mirror Universe, new Mirror Master (Mistress?) Eva McCulloch has reclaimed her company and set out on a mission to destroy all remnants of her husband’s Black Hole organization, and Team Flash is trying to come up with a way to create an Artificial Speed Force to save Barry’s speed.
While there are valid in-universe reasons for major characters like Cisco, Caitlin, Killer Frost, and Iris to be missing in action at STAR Labs, it is still so weird to for the season premiere’s main plot to involve Barry alongside a trio of characters we barely know. (It’s also hard not to read this as a chance for both Chester and Allegra to serve as test Cisco and Caitlin stand-ins, and who even knows what that might mean for the show going forward.)
Candice Patton has far too little to do, with Iris still trapped in the Mirror Universe and struggling to find her way back to Barry, but the way that Eva’s manipulations draw in pieces from throughout her past – and future – at least allows her some interesting variety to play within specific scenes. still, the sooner she gets back to the real world, the better.
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