The Flash Seasons Ranked #shorts
138,190It has almost been a decade since an unsuspecting Barry Allen was struck by lightning in his lab at CCPD on that fateful night, but in the years that have followed, he has gone on to become one of the greatest heroes that the small screen has ever seen. Yes, The Flash first burst onto screens in 2014, breaking ratings records for The CW and quickly becoming the network’s biggest hit ever. To say it’s one of the greatest comic book TV shows of all time would be an understatement.
Over the years, the Scarlet Speedster and his lovable team of heroes on Team Flash have battled evil speedsters, telepathic gorillas and some very angry Forces of Nature, but no battle is too great for Central City’s finest. And we have the seasons to prove it!
The show has surpassed its predecessor Arrow to become the longest-running Arrowverse show yet. Sadly, the show will also bow out as it has been confirmed that it will end with season 9. That ninth season has been airing on TV screens each Wednesday night (and it’s almost finished), teasing us all with how the Scarlet Speedster’s story will end.
But The Flash is all about the journey, so how has its time on TV screens been? Which seasons rose to the occasion and which ones had trouble finishing the race? In honor of the show’s impending conclusion, we are ranking all eight of its seasons from worst to best.
9. The Flash Season 9
You see that image of The Flash and Green Arrow above? That is one of the very few glimmers of brilliance that The Flash‘s ninth and final season contained. It was a rare moment that reminded all of us of how incredible this show once was and made us all nostalgic like a final season is supposed to. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the rest of the season.
8. The Flash Season 7
Fresh off a return to form in a brilliant sixth season, The Flash looked to continue its resurgence. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be in season 7.
7. The Flash Season 5
The Flash‘s connections to the future grew exponentially in the show’s fifth season and it all had to do with the arrival of Barry and Iris’ daughter Nora West-Allen. Portrayed by Jessica Parker Kennedy, the quirky and lovable speedster had sporadically popped up in season 4 before we actually knew who she was, and now it was up to season 5 to tell us everything.
6. The Flash Season 8
The Flash season 8 is a strange beast. On one hand, it produced some incredible episodes that genuinely felt like they belonged in the show’s golden years, but the problem lay in the fact that most of them only functioned when taken out of context. The reason being that the season’s central narrative made it hard to buy any of the characters’ behavior, simply because they should have been worried about Iris West-Allen.
Iris’ Time Sickness was one of the few things carried over from the previous season but it quickly became clear that it should have stayed there. No matter what the writers did with it, it never carried the stakes that it should have. It felt like an underdeveloped afterthought in an overstuffed season and that season actually got better whenever it steered clear from that storyline.
5. The Flash Season 6
After too many seasons of too many episodes, the creative team decided to use The Flash‘s episode count to their advantage, opting to do two mini-seasons within one. Enter Eric Wallace’s “graphic novel” approach.
4. The Flash Season 4
Hoping to leave its days as a speedster-only show in the past, The Flash attempted to introduce a new type of big bad in season 4. Unfortunately, that brought with it a whole new list of problems that made the speedster fatigue look much better in hindsight.
3. The Flash Season 3
The third season of The Flash decided to up the ante in a huge way in a bid to become the show’s most larger-than-life offering. Off the back of two evil speedster villains, the series introduced Savitar, the God of Speed, who took a great deal of pleasure in torturing Barry Allen with the promise of killing Iris in the future.
1. The Flash Season 1
How do you launch a successful show in an already successful universe in the hopes of finding even greater success? Watch The Flash season 1 and you just might find the answer.
1. The Flash Season 2
Fresh off a stellar first season, The Flash went back to the drawing board in a bid to recreate that success for season 2. The show accomplished that by taking a lot of what worked in the first season and repurposing it to match the new storyline. One evil speedster was swapped out for another and, instead of revolving around time travel, we had the multiverse as the season’s central focus.
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