There was entirely too much video game logic, with the single drop of blood in the particle accelerator serving as a countdown device and Allegra’s last second light show. So all of this is nice enough, but unfortunately not enough to justify two episodes. Sure, Bloodwork’s threat was imminently city threatening, but my impression was more that we were seeing just enough of those isolated incidents to raise that threat level, without the show seemingly trying to take shortcuts to illustrate a larger threat. On the other hand, I rarely got the impression that it was trying to appear bigger than it actually could (see the season two finale for an example of that).
If we’re to look at this episode as a season finale rather than a midseason one (and I think that’s fair, considering that showrunner Eric Wallace has described this season as two distinct “graphic novels” broken up with Crisis on Infinite Earths in between), it’s a little small scale.
Although for my money, far creepier than Bloodwork himself were the little touches on the Dark Flash makeup, like the subtle hints of swollen redness under his eyes or the filthy nails that tore through his gloves. That was driven home even further by how ruthlessly Bloodwork would turn random Central City residents, and ESPECIALLY by his grotesque ( and comics accurate!) final form. So much of The Flash season 6 has been about taking chances and breaking out of this show’s comfort zones, and “The Last Temptation of Barry Allen Part Two” did that with its zombies (ahem, sorry, “blood brothers”), its lighting, and even the claustrophobic scenes with Cecile in the kind of fear-panic that only an empath could know. Even when it didn’t completely hold together, it felt in keeping with the spirit of this season.
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Seeing The Flash go full blown horror movie atmosphere for nearly the entire episode was a nice change.
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