Warning: This review contains full spoilers for The Flash Season 5, episode 1, titled "Nora."
The Flash had its most uneven year to date last season, with a promising new pair of villains undone by an overall muddled overall storyline and some extremely frustrating character changes. If ever the show needed a fresh start, it's right now. So it's unfortunate that Season 5 breaks The Flash's usual trend by picking up exactly where Season 4 left off. So far, Season 5 doesn't look to be a huge departure for the series, and that's cause for concern.
To be fair, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to introduce Jessica Parker Kennedy's Nora West-Allen in the finale and then immediately jump forward in time three months. This episode is very much about the immediate fallout of that reveal and the awkwardness that comes from Barry and Iris meeting an adult version of a daughter they haven't even conceived yet. It's sort of a Catch-22 situation in that there's no perfect way to move forward from the Season 4 finale.
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The Flash had its most uneven year to date last season, with a promising new pair of villains undone by an overall muddled overall storyline and some extremely frustrating character changes. If ever the show needed a fresh start, it's right now. So it's unfortunate that Season 5 breaks The Flash's usual trend by picking up exactly where Season 4 left off. So far, Season 5 doesn't look to be a huge departure for the series, and that's cause for concern.
To be fair, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to introduce Jessica Parker Kennedy's Nora West-Allen in the finale and then immediately jump forward in time three months. This episode is very much about the immediate fallout of that reveal and the awkwardness that comes from Barry and Iris meeting an adult version of a daughter they haven't even conceived yet. It's sort of a Catch-22 situation in that there's no perfect way to move forward from the Season 4 finale.
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