The Flash (TV Series) Seeing Red (2019) User Reviews

What extreme measures you would do to protect the love of your life?

[asb_deutsch · 7/10 · 27 January 2019]

Reminds me of one episode of Season 3. Though I wouldn't mention the episode as it will spoil the fun!

PROS:

• They are resting every main character in each episode, thus giving room to others to express themselves freely. .
• The writers use nice vocabulary: I have learnt a new word in this episode- monocle. And the way it was used was very interesting - "Careful with your little monocle"
• I loved to way how emotions change the color of the suit!

CONS:

• Cicada v. Flash - Still stagnant.
• (No spoilers!) trying to scare Sherloque was totally unnecessary
• The ending should have been more thrilling instead of being dramatic.

My ratings (based on what I marked on IMDb): Season 1: 200/23 = 8.69; Season 2: 193/23= 8.23; Season 3: 188/23= 8.17; Season 4: 146/23= 6.65 and Season 5= 77.5/11 = 7.05 (This episode = 7/10)

Good, but not great

[michaelholman-88104 · 7/10 · 23 January 2019]

Let me start by first saying this episode was far better than last weeks episode. But this episode was still pretty weak compared to the earlier episodes of the season. I feel like they switched writers after the mid season finale. I don't if it's just me but so far the back half of the season feels way different than the front half.

The good:

• cicada vs flash fight (the one where Barry almost killed cicada. I thought this battle was awesome. I loved seeing barry more powerful than ever and about to kill the main villain. Too bad Nora stopped him)
• sherloque investigating Nora (I love how sherloque keeps finding out more and more about Nora's secret every episode. And when we find out that her journal contains 2 different handwritings, one of the best parts of the episode.
• the fact that this episode actually involved the flash (unlike last weeks)

The bad:

• Nora stopping Barry from killing cicada (now this is probably an unpopular opinion but I fell like in that scene cicada should've been killed, which would then lead to the return of Reverse flash. But unfortunately we didn't get that result)
• the first cicada vs flash fight (I felt this battle went by way too quick. I didn't feel any suspense unlike the other battles in the episode)
• iris getting mad at sherloque for investigating nora (now this more of me hating on Iris and her terrible character than anything else. I mean cmon, her feeble attempts to scare sherloque were laughable)
• killer frost and Caitlin relationship (now this wasn't bad but I just didnt care for this storyline)
• WHERE WAS CISCO

This was a decent episode and I enjoyed it throughout, but it wasn't suspenful enough

7/10

Anti-climatic to no end.

[cruise01 · 6/10 · 29 July 2019]

Episode 5.11 (3 out of 5 stars).

Frost gets the spotlight. Nora gets injured causing Flash to go a angry rampage to Cicada. A climatic fight with Flash and Frost towards Cicada. The action and fight was cool. But when Flash has the upper hand and Cicada is about to lose. Flash gets distracted and Cicada escapes yet again. Which is annoying and anticlimatic.

HMMMMM

[Itzznickiii · 9/10 · 31 January 2019]

VERY GOOD. FROST FINALLY GOT THE SCREENTIME SHE DESERVED.

The Flash Makes A Come Back

[KM1701 · 10/10 · 24 January 2019]

While not perfect this episode was VERY good and deserves to be recgonized! It found solid ground in an area the show has always struggled in which is balance. Be it in plotlines, characters, or even action sequences. It gave well needed expansion to Caitlin and Killer Frost (both played by Danielle Panabaker) who has sorely needed it for two years now while still also keeping the episode's main focus on our hero Barry Allen/The Flash (Grant Gustin). And it had one of the best action sequences the show has seen in quite some time as Killer Frost and Flash tag team to take on the season's big bad in an epic fight that truly utilized their underused superpowers in ways we've never seen them before. All while balancing an equally well done rescue sequence with Ralph Dipny/Elongated Man (Hartley Sawyer). And sprinkled in with all of that was just enough of the Sherloque Wells (Tom Cavanaugh) investigates Nora West-Allen (Jessica Parker Kennedy) storyline to keep me interested where it may go next.

It had great emotional performances by Danielle Panabaker, who pulled heartstrings as she played both entities of Caitlin and Killer Frost with ease as the two struggled to communicate how much they meant to each other, and Jessica Parker Kennedy delievered a great moment of fear and devastation at her character's injury. Hartley Sawyer and Danielle Nicolet (Cecile Horton) also had great scenes as Ralph and Cecile tried to help Killer Frost and Barry (respectively).

Now saying all that, there was a few issues with this episode sadly most of them are surrounding the show's lead character and its villain. As the show has attempted to build up the season's big bad, Cicada (Chris Klein), it has failed in its building of urgency. This season Barry just doesn't seem to care about Cicada unless it directly impacts him, which not only is it very uncharacteristic of the selfless character they've built up for 5 seasons now but it also causes a lack of intimidation and worry on the audiences part. If our main hero doesn't care about Cicada, why should we? And also once again logic was forsaken for a "moment". I know, as does anyone else, they cannot defeat Cicada this early on BUT there is no need to make your main hero step away from your villain without securing him. He could always escape later but having The Flash just walk away from Cicada to hug Nora so he could get away was painful to watch and certainly ended that arc of the episode on a sour note as it made Barry look woefully stupid when we all know he's not. To make it worse, no one seemed to care the mass murderer got away. The uncaring attitude undercuts Cicada as a villain and Team Flash as heroes in ways that hold the show back. But the show has begun to fix a lot of its issues over the course this season and I hope this one is added to the list.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and it was a great improvement from the past with moments that had me emotional or on the edge of my seat! I certainly hope for more like this in the future!

Barry's arc is great, Cicada is a different story.

[jaythezoomster · 7/10 · 12 May 2019]

If "Seeing Red" told me anything, it's that Cicada need some major upping for me to care about him again. This episode felt like nothing more than a retread of seeing him attack people over and over again.

There were some cool moments and fight scenes with Barry but other than that, Dwyer is now officially on the same level as Savitar for me - boring.

The fight choreography for this episode is actually pretty solid, though. We get some fun fights with Barry going all in on Cicada in the end of the episode and some fun fights in between, too.

This episode is also again hindered by another perfect chance to put the Cicada conflict to bed and focus on the more interesting storyline of Thawne and Nora's connection yet Cicada escapes. His escape isn't a huge issue and I don't think it's as dumb as people say here but man, this episode is set up so strongly like its the exit of the character that the fact that he stays around kind of hurts it.

The Ralph and Caitlin scenes are cringey so I don't wanna talk about it much but Caitlin has been declining faster and faster ever since "The Icicle Cometh" and now I fear there's no hope of ever redeeming her. I just don't care about her whatsoever.

Barry's arc this episode was great. Seeing him struggle with killing Cicada was fascinating and it had been a while since we've seen Barry this genuinely mad at something. I just wish it actually went anywhere other than another resolution that, while it makes sense, feels like for the sake of the plot.

A fine episode of the Flash is gently propelled by very well done fight scenes with Cicada and a nicely written arc for Barry yet hindered by Cicada actually doing nothing to be interesting at all the entire episode. The end twist with trying to wake up Grace at least promises something interesting with this storyline but that could've easily been the plot to episode 10, right?

Finally this show is about The Flash again!

[professorzoom-59353 · 10/10 · 23 January 2019]

This episode had blood, emotion, KILLER FROST and Ultra Instinct Flash. Almost every EPISODE of season 4 and some episodes of season 5 were focused on someone else other than Barry Allen (Iris, Ralph and Nora) but this episode... This episode doesnt, and i hope it doesnt change.

Ranking/Reviewing every Flash episode: Seeing Red

[lbramson · 6/10 · 16 June 2023]

Barry protects all the metas from Cicada after Nora's back is broken. For an episode with such a cool sounding plot, it was executed poorly. This marked the beginning of Cicada coming off as more of a joke than a threatening villain. He was defeated pratically within a minute fight with Barry. He's literally punched and he's down. LLLAAAMMMEEEE!!! Cicada sucks as a villain, but I thought this episode would make him better, but no! He's still the weak, lame, crappy villain from the beginning of this terrible Season. Season 5 just keeps getting worse, it's not looking good at all. Let's just hope this shunken ship will be turned around soon. 🙏🛐

6.8/10-Meh.😐

solid episode with highs and lows

[tomburrows-18307 · 8/10 · 2 February 2019]

This was a good episode showing that the team are caring and doing their best by figuring out how to stop the meta killings also after seeing the flash rounding up all the random meta's on the list and seeing the flash standing over him was a good look. also liked when Barry got angry with what happened to Nora and when he was allowed to use his powers against cicada it was nice to see the true side of power the flash has and brute force and damage he can do to someone and nearly killing cicada was cool but could of just finished the job instead of letting him go. by doing this we can focus on the rest of the season with the reverse flash story because everyone likes speedsters/ RF

Thumbs Up

[c-t-c-g · 10/10 · 24 January 2019]

I liked that this episode finally granted both Killer Frost and Caitlin Snow some long overdue screentime and development while still focusing on Barry Allen. It was a very needed break from the Nora storyline, even though I highly disliked the fact he let the villain go for the sake of an emo moment. I wish we could return to those times where Barry was more worried about beating the villain than playing house.

I love this show, even through the obvious corniness, but this episode was just so bad it killed me..

[corytracy · 1/10 · 30 January 2019]

So the team has Cicada beat because Killer Frost can take him out so easily but instead of ending this dumb character(Cicada) and ending his run in the show they think it's a good idea to tell Killer Frost that they need Caitlyn because she's a doctor. She gives Cicada's intended victim a 2 second look and says we need to get her to the hospital... what a genius diagnosis.. thank god she was there to do that... maybe they should have just had Nora speed her to the hospital right away instead of sending Caitlyn over there to do nothing? Like what was she supposed to do anyways? She wouldn't be able to do any kind of medical treatment in the heat of battle in the first place and that's not even the worst part of it.. this was yet another obvious time that anyone could have simply walked up to Cicada and put the dampening cuffs on him. Boom bad guy defeated. But noooooooo, they need to let yet another easy opportunity to beat him slip right past them. And this happens twice in this episode and both times it happens in the dumbest ways possible. Flash even has his speed the second time so all he would have to do is take a millisecond to put the cuffs on Cicada and then he could have had his stupid father daughter moment. Cicada has been a dumb character from the get go. His fights suck. The actor, who I actually have liked in other roles, forgot how to act or something. He plays the part so terribly. His constant stupid facial expressions and the voice he uses whenever he talks even when he's not in the mask leaves me speechless how bad it is. They've spent half a season trying to catch a bad guy that should be 100 times easier to beat than almost every single of their one episode villians they've had in the show. Like the girl with the freaking weather stick should be way harder to beat than Cicada but for some reason the writers have a hard-on for Cicada and want him to keep making this show suck. Cicada is killing this show for me. Please get rid of him and get the season back on track with Thawne being the villain once again. I can't take anymore Cicada. Just seeing the character again will disappoint me because he is such a badly acted and terrible character. Sorry for the rant but for some reason I don't see people talking about how dumb Cicada is. It blows my mind that people actually like his character. How are you people rating this season and episodes so high? I very much look forward to watching every episode of this show and I am unbelievably biased towards rating this show a 10 even when it's not but this has been so bad that I can't give it higher than a 1. I wish I could give it a negative. Get your heads out of your butts and rate these episodes with correct ratings please!! And writers of the show, please get rid of Cicada

This is what we've been waiting for!

[armo-10166 · 10/10 · 23 January 2019]

Finally! An episode of The Flash that genuinely kept me interesting throughout the entire running time. This episode brought serious combat, great humour, and concluded beautifully. The only other episodes to do this were "Nora" and "What's Past Is Prologue".

Really Well Done.......

[Sam_Morningstar · 10/10 · 23 January 2019]

'Seeing Red' is the Next Installment of Flash Season 5. Here we get to see a side of Barry, which we don't normally expect; Anger. After an incident with Cicada leaves a Member of Team Flash, close to Barry to get injured. Barry gets filled with Rage like we haven't seen before. The acting was really well done especially Grant's, whose anger could be felt from the screen and Iris wasn't as annoying as before, just like Felicity on Arrow. There was some Character Development which wasn't actually required but it's good to get. The Direction, Production, Writing and everything else was well done. The Story was really well done and it had a really nice Message for the viewers. The Ending wasn't extreme but it was something exciting. This Episode's Tone was more darker than usual, but not as dark as Season 3.

So Overall Its a Solid 10 and I hope it continues in the same direction.

A low point for the series...

[GYTrekker · 2/10 · 25 January 2019]

In a series that has suffered from uneven writing & ridiculous/implausible characters & motivations, this one is a standout for stupid plotting & dialogue. 'My daughter is hurt, and may not be able to heal at warp speed like usual...! What to do?'. 'Hey, this powerful metavillain is ALMOST restrained... You should put Killer Frost back in her cage so that Caitlin can make an astounding medical diagnosis that this injured woman should go to the hospital.' And my personal favorite: 'Oh look, the metavillain we've been trying to capture for months has just been knocked down. Let's leave Killer Frost struggling to neutralize his power-sucking dagger and turn our backs on him in order to have another father/daughter bonding moment. Cause there's NO chance that he'll wake up, seize his weapon & get away.' Seriously, what the hell were the writers sniffing during this one?

Another shining example...

[Ceredon1 · 1/10 · 24 January 2019]

Of writing characters that are dumber than a brick. "Hey we've got that bad guy trapped, we need the only hero that still has powers to give them up because only she is a doctor that can say 'we need to get her to a hospital', conveniently giving that big bad ample time to escape and do damage. "We've temporarily de-powered the big bad, let's stop and stare are each other for a minute so he has time to escape".

Seriously, do they have to always reliably write their characters as brain injured just because they can't write well?

Hey, Nora - can the father and daughter hug wait...

[Hei_Shibing · 2/10 · 1 February 2019]

...until I've slapped some power-dampening cuffs on this nearly-defeated villain who broke your back? No? Okay, hug first - after all, there are still 12 episodes to go, we'll recapture him later

It's getting worse and worse...

[Baini · 2/10 · 8 February 2019]

Holy moly are all of these characters brain dead :( Nora is almost as stupid and cliché of a character as Iris. Don't get me started on cicada, extremely bad actor for an even worse bad guy... come one. Season 1 and 2 were so good!!! The only reason I am still watching is for the Nora mystery...

It's so sad to watch this show get worse by every episode

[Rk-rohitrai · 3/10 · 1 February 2019]

Flash: We need Kaitlyn Kaitlyn: We need to get her to the hospital

Too many high reviews!..

[garabedian123 · 3/10 · 24 January 2019]

What are the rest of you watching. This episode was not terrible, but it was terribly written. Characters that are dumber than bricks. I could not agree more. Road blocks for helicopters...Cicada killing every meta he finds..but not Nora...why?...So... so many plot holes.....Ohh yeah...what was with the blood? at the start we see blood for the very first time when Cicada slashes someone...But we never see it again..what was with that?

Lame

[yschuerch · 3/10 · 12 February 2019]

The ways they let cicada get away when they already have him just to make this season last longer are just lame....come on you can do better!!

Funny Nora also paralyzes the season storyline

[sisdog- · 4/10 · 2 February 2019]

I dislike Nora and this storyline so much that I feel zero sympathy for her. Please go away. Cicadas voice is such a bad choice, sound like that women with the hole in throat in the anti-smoking commercials.

This isnt a superhero series

[edkav · 1/10 · 28 January 2019]

I closed the episode when I watched the Iris scene. I've never seen such a bad character in my life. I don't even want to watch flash anymore. It's a superhero series, not a drama series. I'm just waiting for the iris to die or get out of the series.

Absolutely awful

[gr-02751 · 1/10 · 28 January 2019]

Suspension of belief is fine, letting the bad guy run away twice after capturing him is hilariously bad. I registered to rate this episode 1* it should be 0* worst episode of a super hero show I've ever seen.

Same Old, Same Old

[ThomasDrufke · 5/10 · 26 January 2019]

Taking the title from one of Arrow's best all time episodes? Yeah, probably not the best start. Remember how the previous showed Nora holding onto her life after Cicada "paralyzed" her? Well, did anyone honestly think that was going to last? No, because it's the CW and they don't take risks anymore with their shows. It's one thing when Zoom did it to Barry in season 2, it's another thing to carbon copy that plot and place it into this week's episode. Nora's condition, perhaps unintentionally gave me deja vu because Barry was sidelined for the entire episode as he dealt with his own issues with his abilities. It's gone on for a long time, but there's clearly a lack of direction and creativity here. How long before I stop watching the show because it does the same thing year in and year out?

5.0/10

Makes No Sense!

[rhagelberg · 3/10 · 8 March 2022]

Seriously?! It makes no sense that every time they get cicada down or restrained they turn their backs on him or they let him go. That makes no sense whatsoever.