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Friday 25 May 2018

A Strong Finish Redeems Arrow's Bumpy Season 6

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Note: this is a mostly spoiler-free review of the sixth season of Arrow, which is now available to stream on Netflix. I'll discuss basic character and plot details but save direct spoiler chatter for the end of the review.

It's not always easy being a fan of Arrow, as the show's sixth season frequently proved. The show was at its most uneven and frustrating this year. For a while it seemed as though Season 6 was doomed to go down in history as the show's worst to date. And while it did finally turn things around in the last couple months, it may have been too little, too late for many viewers.

The show's sudden drop in quality is all the more surprising given the strong foundation Season 5 had put in place. Season 5 ended with the series best episode yet, wrapping up the conflict between Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra) and leaving viewers with a cliffhanger wherein the fate of nearly every member of Team Arrow was in doubt. That's how you end a season. The Season 6 premiere, "Fallout," is not how you begin one. That episode squandered most of the potential from "Lian Yu." Rather than delivering a dramatic overhaul of the status quo and showcasing a Team Arrow left reeling from Chase's final attack, it showed that annoyingly little had changed in Star City during those missing three months. The impact of that attack was minimal, with almost zero casualties and a handful of easily reversible changes to the norm.

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