The Flash: King Shark Review

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Last night's Flash picked up exactly where last week's left off; moments after Jay Garrick was cruelly killed by Zoom in front of the entire team, before his body was dragged back to Earth 2 by the dark speedster.

The episode focused mainly on the team recovering from that loss as well as what they saw on Earth 2, while trying to stay busy to avoid to pain of their loss. That distraction came in the form of King Shark.

Continuing the tradition of a second crossover episode, we had a visit from Diggle and his wife, Lyla (who's now running ARGUS!) as they try to help the team defeat King Shark as the talking shark actually escaped ARGUS' custody.

The episode was another suberb episode, following the Earth 2 episodes. It was nice to see an episode with the team dealing with the after effects of their visit to the parallel Earth; seeing the consequences of character's actions is something I love to see in television (or in any form of entertainment, really) and I'm glad the writers didn't decide to just go straight to a light hearted episode, which in a way, this episode was but there was that undertone of loss that really made the episode work.

There's so many standout performances in this episode that it's really hard to choose a favorite scene in the episode, but all of the Caitlin and Cisco scenes together were amazing, as was seeing the West family bonding.

Quite impressive was how they handled King Shark; it would be very easy for this episode to be corny or just not good at all, but somehow they managed to do the complete opposite. It was tense during the fight scenes and the CGI for King Shark was darn good for a television show. And when a show can make a talking shark wearing pants even remotely threatening, then that's darn impressive.

Rating: 5/5