Arrow: “Sacrifice” – Episode 23 CAUTION: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS Bonds were strengthened. Sacrifices were made. Green Arrow is born. Everything the debut season of Arrow has been building towards comes to a head in the epic season finale, “Sacrifice.” The episode smartly uses all of its characters to their fullest potential, present and flashback sequences included. The episode picks up right where we left off last week: a defeated Oliver is being...

Spoilers ahead! We’ve got one episode left and “Darkness on the Edge of Town” builds tension and raises the bar even higher for next week’s season finale. Things are tense among the happy little trio of Ollie, Diggle, and Felicity, as the episodes starts off. Ollie decides he has to confront his mother about her involvement in the Undertaking before he moves to stop the plan. He decides to be a little gentler this time and confront her as Ollie...

Beware, spoilers ahead! Flying arrows, spin-kicking thugs, and Felicity Smoak with her hair down–this week’s Arrow, “The Undertaking” has it all. But is that a good thing? Last night’s episode was aptly named as it did indeed undertake a majority of the loose ends Arrow has set up from the beginning and try to tie them all together in a coherent fashion. And for the most part, it did. Be The episode focuses on four major points: Where’s...

After coming off of a two week hiatus, Arrow comes back for the long haul with a bang or rather, lots of bangs, in this week’s episode, “Home Invasion,” which is filled with more than its fair share of game changing moments. Since the beginning of Arrow, the show has really grown in its ability to play on the dual nature of superhero vigilantism as well its development of the characters and their personal agendas. “Home Invasion” does a great...

Coming off of a strong episode last week, “Salvation” (which was reviewed by the mighty Derek Baker) Arrow continues strong with today’s “Unfinished Business.” The episode starts showing Ollie and Tommy’s club Verdant thriving with people partying hard, and as it progresses, it would seem a little too hard. A random girl was found to have taken the deadly drug “Vertigo,” and wanders into traffic, looks pretty ridiculous, and then gets crushed...

Once again, your friendly neighborhood reviewer, Derek Baker, is swinging in to help review Arrow. Sorry, Eastin DeVerna took an arrow to the knee this week, but have no fear, he will return for episode 19.   * WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS *   While the plot began to expand into subplots in prior episodes making Arrow seem a little convoluted with too many stories, the writers are beginning to show us where these plot lines connect....