Barry speedster face-off a couple of episodes back. Truly, The Flash must have spent the entire Season 7 effects budget on the Frost vs. I still fully believe there’s no way we’ll be without a Wells forever, but maybe it’ll stick for longer than I thought. So…Tom Cavanagh not being in the opening credits this week is interesting. Team Flash has its hands full when a metahuman with a withering touch starts killing off the counterparts of the cops who arrested him in. Especially if investigating what allowed them to separate will finally allow the show to explore the things that connect them too. Season 1 finds Barry searching for his mothers killer while his metahuman alter ego, the Flash, protects Central City from powerful villains. Truly, as long as it allows us to abandon the fiction that is Frost timesharing a body with her soul twin or whatever it is that these two women are to one another, it’s fine. On The Flash Season 4 Episode 18, Ralph considers crossing a dangerous line to defeat DeVoe, when the team finds a way to enter The Thinker's lair.
While some viewers (cough me cough) have always thought that these women would be better served as two aspects of Caitlin’s personality that she would one day have to learn to accept, after The Flash spent all of last season establishing Frost as her own character, this is probably the best of all possible outcomes. Daddy has many apologies to make after a drunken outburst, Hott Dogg joins Tiffany and Lauren for a girls day, and Murray pulls a prank. (Not Real Iris’s fault, of course, but you can’t help what you feel.) Watching the two of them actually try to talk through their struggles and give names to their feelings – both separately and together – feels like genuine growth, both for their marriage and the show. And, as Iris rightly points out, Barry himself is suffering from his own share of emotional upheaval, in the wake of the thing he trusted most in the world turning out to be a lie. Now a crime-scene investigator, his dedication to learn the truth about his mother's death drives him to follow up on. At 11, Barry Allen's life changed completely when his mother died in a freak accident and his innocent father was convicted of her murder. Barry’s desperate to make up for not immediately recognizing Mirror Iris as a fraud, as though tropical vacations and fresh French pastries are somehow enough to cure what he and his wife both went through. Select an episode below or record this series.
Iris spent three months watching a clone steal her life and sleep with her husband and, what’s worse, saw Barry not really notice the difference. But, in all seriousness, it’s truly refreshing to see the show finally acknowledge some of the horrors its characters have experienced – both Team Flash and general Central City residents – and admit that those things should have lasting repercussions.
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