THE FLASH Full Series Recap | Season 1-9 Ending Explained 

I never got past Season 2, but I swear, actor for Harrison Wells needs an award, he carries this entire show on all of his alter ego's shoulders

I started to laugh every time a villain turned out to be "a current member of the cast in disguise".

“She helps revive the speed force with the power of love.” 😂😂😂

Oh my god this has such comedic value though. "Iris shoots Savitar with a gun" "the power of love rescues the speedforce" "they ACCIDENTALLY CREATE A DEITY"

Season 1 - masterpiece Season 2 - masterpiece Season 3 - starts slipping Season 4 - finally a villain without speed Season 5 - what’s going on? Season 6 - I’m lost I’m lost I’m lost Season 7 - idk what I’m watching anymore Season 8 - oh hey look ciscos gone :( Season 9 - nostalgia carried a few episodes but still had no idea what was going on half the time

you see when you explain the entire series this way it sounds so much better than it actually is when you watch it

To sum it up, of all the superpowers in the universe nothing beats the power of Love 🙄🙄🙄

By season 5 I was completely lost. Your recap is great, just shows how insane the show has become

"the power of love" - nearly spit out my coffee. Thank you for this summary, I stopped starting season 4 and wondered how it ended but didn't care to watch and I'm glad I didn't.

Remember how much more lively Central City looked back then? Instead of just yk, the same four locations they use all the time.

Props to this dude reading it all with a straight face. You can tell where each season ends because everytime things are ok. Barry catches cancers from using the force too much on the last fight and something else funny happens like a fish they flushed down years ago was also there at the explosion and it's name is Golden Wave.

I feel so bad that this show never recovered after that mid fourth season. It didn't deserve to go down this road 😭

Season 1: Okay, this seem pretty solid Season 2: Oh yeah, this is getting exciting Season 3: Still solid, straying a bit, but solid Season 4: Okay, new direction, seems promising Season 5: Uh, okay. Seems interesting? Season 6: Starting to get lost on what the original premise was supposed to be Season 7: What???? Season 8: What???? x2 + no more Cisco :/ Season 9: Oh good its over, my brain hurts

Seasons 1 & 2 were some of the best superhero live action TV out there.

Great recap. I stopped watching at the beginning of the Mirror Dimension story arc. Just couldn't get past how much the writers tried to make Iris much more important than she actually is. When I learned from this video she was able to bring back the Speed Force with the power of love, I genuinely rolled my eyes. This show was amazing at first. Can't believe how terrible it became.

Honestly this was a god send. I gave up on the flash ages ago but it’s nice to see where the show went in the end

Thank you for saving me some time👍🏾. I was curious about season 9 and how the finale turned out but I didn’t want to commit to watch it all.

Honestly this explains the final 3 seasons better than the show itself did

I can't help but notice you left out the female villain with rainbow powers that wanted to cure poverty by throwing gold bricks out of a blimp onto a stadium full of people. I promise I'm not making this up.

I like how season 6 is just “team flash does things” and Barry is just kinda there

Reversed Flash was permanently banished 1 million times! It started getting contrived and ridiculous 😂 Even the actors stopped acting.

anyone else notice that at some point the villains would have all of this build up, Barry would fight them and lose one episode, then win the next with relatively no effort. The first half, the villains felt as though they mattered and were there, but later on they served as little more than slightly inconvenient road blocks that were ultimately easy to beat.

I was a fan since this show started, I was only able to tolerate all this until season 4 and half of season 5 so THANK YOU FOR THIS.

How did he not breakdown laughing even once. Like. This is genuinely impressive.

Unbelievable that the entire show could be summarised in a video the same length of one episode

For as bad as this show got the first season is still great and Grant is a great Barry.

I really appreciate how you didn’t inject a bunch of negativity or opinion into it, just a straightforward recap

want to die of Alcohol poisoning? Do a drinking game where you take a shot every time the reverse flash somehow comes back or the day is saved by the “power of love”😂

This is great i just have to correct something the Jay Garrick that was captured by Zoom wasnt from earth 2 but Earth 3

"...and is once again erased from existence".

"They had us in the first half, not gonna lie" the show

after a while i noticed the formula, it kinda killed it for me. i asked my brother if season 8 (that was the next season coming to netflix at the time) had any of the formula in it and he laughed, saying it happens twice. once in the first 5 episodes and then again throughout the season. it goes like this: barry will lose his powers, regains them, learns a new thing he can do, a beloved character will die, a much less deserving character will survive, iris will have something wrong with her, someone goes into a coma, a friend becomes a foe, a foe becomes a friend, time travel shenanigans, barry will not know what's going on for much of the season (even if it's obvious to everyone), everyone levels up. it's not in any particular order, but every one of those things happen in every season, twice in seasons 8 & 9.

New drinking game: Take a shot every time a new speedster shows up who is faster than Barry. Take a shot every time a new Harrison Wells shows up. Take a shot every time they time travel. Take a shot every time they say “Run, Barry, Run.” Take a shot every time Barry could have saved someone but didn’t.

really like the savatar design. it's a nice change from flash recolor, plus the concept of a jurggenaut running super fast is terrifying

29:32 I died laughing. The power of 'love' seriously?

Thanks I was looking for a video like this the day after the series finale

Flawed as it was i loved the Flash and Grant Gustin's portrayal of Barry. Still it's a shame that the show went down the road where i didnt know what the hell was going on lol

idk why the last season wasnt just all about cobalt blue and the other speedsters

definitely sounds a lot better in a recap, but damn things really did go downhill from season 4 onwards, to be more specific the writers seemed to write themselves into a corner that only the power of love of frienship could pull them out from lol, but honestly the flash is one of the hardest heroes to write stories for, the fact they were able to go 4 seasons with top tier writing and 5 seasons with a range of meh to pretty good writing is a feat imo

you are truly amazing. outstanding work!!

I don't know how you did this recap while staying serious. I nearly died after hearing "the power of love" because that's what the show really was after season 3

Thank you for this. I've watched the first 5 seasons like, 5 times and always start getting tired of it, but still wanted to know what was going on, but couldn't bring myself to do it again XD

I always wondered what happened after I stopped watching. The show was my favorite thing to watch after high school. Waiting every week staring at the CW refresh feed then reacting it and reviewing it with my friends during high school class. But after watching this, ngl, I wish I still wondered lmao. Great video btw.

8:00 slight correction zoom catches the jay garrick from earth-3 he was not from earth-2

Season 2 was peak Flash. I still remember the Jay Garrick reveal

Thanks alot for this recap

Thank you!! Great video 👍

I loved this show, but got burnt out on it but mid seventh season. So... recap it is! Thanks for the video!!

Fantastic recap!

I dropped this shit around season 4... Just the phrase "restore the speedforce with the power of love" is making me glad I did it... God damn it CW...

Kudos for pushing through this. Despite this being a really good recap, it shows how disjointed so many of these arc are, how often the solution is overly simple after a whole season of trial and error and new (and sometimes old) characters never appear again without consequence. Barry, both as a character and a superhero, hardly evolved in the show just for the sake of otherwise becoming too overpowered, too experienced, kept repeating the same mistakes... Crisis made an even bigger mess of all the DCTV shows, and while it served a purpose in the comics, it was just something that happened in the shows - the consequences often being contradicting or just being there for an episode of two, but often the results being completely ignored moving forward (same with lots of Barry's time travel, that only served for a few episodes of drama or when the writers remembered it to be a thing). Why they made a point in the crossover Crisis to have all DC heroes end up on one Earth when they then obviously didn't have the budget or logistic means to actually use it, is a mystery to me (just so they could use and market a famous comic book event?); Crisis was pointless and inconsequential aside from the narrative plotholes it left [in DCSG it resulted in essentially nullifying the first 4-5 seasons; e.g. a flashback added on that Prime-Earth Kara had been using her powers (incl. flying) as a teen, so the very pilot should have happened differently and she had a bf who knew about her powers then which would also have changed many many of the character driven plot points about both her romantic life and double-identity issues in the earlier seasons]. Even in the Flash there were some later throwbacks to earlier season that should not have happened, several characters should not have remembered them, either due to Barry's time-travel changes or Crisis, while other times it was used as a handwash short-route to explain "well, it must have happened in the new past". Because of Crisis aliens did exist alongside meta--humans from the start. And, oh, don't get me started on all the arbitrary ways they kept bringing the Reverse Flash back, when he previously was supposedly defeated for good... ...somehow I watched the whole series, so despite all my complaints it was entertaining. But oftentimes it was like watching a car-crash happening in slow motion...

Best Soap Opera ever! Thanks for the review.

the show ended in a mid way tbh, i was expecting more bad stuff to happen but everything happened in season 9 ended with the power of love and friendship.

It's like the writers Scooby-Doo decided to write for the flash of DC comics I'm so glad I didn't waste my time watching the whole series

The series was soo painful to finish. Fell off hard but every once in a while we got a bangar reverse flash episode. Eventually it wasnt enough.

Thank you for the recap

The show was so good for three seasons! Then it slowly lost its identity and it felt like the writers gave up and just wanted the show to end, but because the audience was still invested because of the great first three seasons, the show kept getting renewed. Really wish it ended sooner and didn’t drag this long.

3:15 it wasn’t the time travel that sapped Eo’s speed, it was the paradox of changing Barry’s life path so drastically by killing Nora Sr.

I gave up on Flash sometime after Nora first arrived, so I appreciate the recap. At least I know what happened

on paper it all sounds so good...but reality is often dissapointing

Many brain cells died while watching this recap

Season 1 was great! I rewatch it alot!

Lol the power of love 😂

4:32 I thought the black hole was the universe freaking out at Eobard getting deleted despite being critical to the new history.

Tnx brother for the suffering you endured, so i don't have to(stoped watching after season 4), this video is more entertaining then the whole series

Jay Garrick was the flash of earth 3. Which was kind of a plot hole or just something never explained as it implies Zoom/Hunter had a way to travel between worlds prior to the singularity.

“She helps revive the speed force with the power of love.” . “She helps revive the speed force with the power of love.” .

Wow I made the recap! That’s me at 24:23 - 24:26 That was a great experience and the actors credit that allowed me to join the actors union. Great Job on this recap my good man! Thanks for unintentionally including me in at the time was a huge moment of my life 😊

I love how literally nearly every relevant character in the series just develops a random ass power

Would love to see all the other tie ins to this series on here.

Damn. Great recap.

The last episode I saw was the finale for Season 01. "The universe will always need a Wells" is literally why I watched Flash to begin with haha. The initial "team Flash s01" cast carried this show. EDIT: 36:15 this "creating a blue-haired evil deity out of the brunette goodie" is literaly stolen from the Angel tv show... Damn what a throwback

as someone who watched the seasons until season 6 cuz it was trash this really informed me

Watching this saved me uncountable hours of my life. Thank you!

I wish each season was this simplified!

I will ask for an Arrow recap, also maybe supernatural. This makes way easier to relive series that watching it all over again

Some villains from the earlier seasons would have easily be perfect villains for the later or even the final season.

glad you understood these seasons

Dam I keep seeing the flash clips on shorts and I used to keep up with the flash the arrow and supergirl at one point but it was too much to watch so hopefully this can satisfy my knowledge thirst to know what happened

Great break down thanks

Thanks man you just saved me from wasting my time for 6seasons

29:33 power of love . wwwah , what genius

Cecile was the worst thing to happen on The Flash

Love how absolutely dead inside he sounds when he starts talking about the first Arc of the final season. Why couldn't they find a better actress for Red Death?!

nice job!

Halfway thru this video and it’s clear the entire series can be summed up by saying it’s all team flashes fault lol. They created all the issues they saved the world from lol

Could you do other recap and chill video for the other two arrowverse shows, please.?

I was a fan of Flash early on I even managed to get to the Mirrorverse season. I think what hurt the storylines and creativity was really after the Covid hiatus. The show was never able to regain momentum and the storylines became too repetitive. The cast and crew did well while it lasted tho..

The rainbow of Forces and rainbow of Lantern Corps will forever be peak derp to me

watching this I realize why I never made it past the second season.

Season 1 reverse flash moments up to zoom's times were the best.

Please do the rest of the Arrowverse. 💕

This was a pretty good series, I only got to see up to the point were the thinker guy was stopped, and like a season after that because I don't have money. But it was pretty nice watching while I was in college n stuff for a short time.

The power of love solving issues made me laugh out loud lmao!

The Reverse Flash from season 5 isn't the Flashpoint time remnant, the time remnant from Season 8 was. And his body was used to resurrect the prime Thawne with his powers by the Negative Forces, with Iris's time sickness being used as a catalyst

34:14 DEATHSTORM from BLACKEST NIGHT!!!! Awesome reveal!

As wally go his powers from Alchemy, he had no dark matter in his cells. If he remained in C.C (Central City), he would’ve had his speed against Cicada as his dagger only nullified dark matter

I honestly miss when Barry would look at a crime scene and the clues would be shown on screen as he dismantles the villains get away and motive like in the first episode. Made me think he was incredibly brilliant AND was honestly setting up a super cool detective style of not only the Flash being a good hero but Barry the Forensic Scientist being super observant and good at beating bad guys even before his powers. Missed opportunity for the rest of the show tbh I think. 😪

Thank you!

I love how harrison wells or the eobard version are found in almost all the seasons they just wanna keep reintroducing either the real Harrison wells or eobard thawne for reverse flash