Agreed. Kevin’s had the easiest path of the Big Three, but because of that his problems have always been the least visible. Rebecca was focused on Randall, and Jack was focused on Kate, and Kevin had to fend for himself a bit more.

I know Barry ran out of fucks to give when it comes to protecting his secret identity a long time ago, but this episode was especially aggregious.

First he superspeeds his would-be mugger to the hospital while wearing his street clothes, after giving the guy a lengthy opportunity to memorize his face.

Especially since Season 1 Faux-Wells proved conclusively otherwise.

It’s amazing how the Atlantic Ocean suddenly looks like South Africa as soon as you depart from Scottish shores.

That’s why the series’s fate is so worrisome. With “Baskets” and “One Mississippi”, he’s been pretty hands off once the series got up and running. It’ll be easy to yank his name off and continue onward.

Not my favorite episode, but still like nothing else on television.

What I liked about that scene is that it sort of implodes the white savior dynamic that was set up with the sentencing judge who’d cut him a break. When the crusty old white face didn’t do the job anymore, the face of his long-thought-about son did the trick.

I’m still extremely frustrated that the show is still going with Caitlin Snow and Killer Frost as two separate personas when she seemed to reconcile those parts of herself in the last season finale.

After this episode, we’re close to being back to where we were before the season started.

In my head-canon, it’s not Katee Sackhoff doing a horrendous English accent; it’s lifetime Central City native Amunet Black adopting a horrendous English accent because she thinks it makes her sound sophisticated.

Someday the team’s going to have to explain to the Time Bureau why the Dominators are race of pacifist musical aficionados now.

Danny Trejo had to be their pie-in-the-sky casting for Gypsy’s dad. And then, when they called his people on a lark, he said “Okay”.

Also, Cisco and Gypsy have the best chemistry in all the DC CW multiverse.

The first season was better about that with the music, having sixties music like Jefferson Airplane and Pearls Before Swine and some seventies music in the mix too.

I think they had a smaller music budget then, too, and the use of cheaper modern covers of period songs also made it feel less like a cardboard cutout of…

Two thoughts:
1) I was fairly certain before this episode that Robin made up his daughter Mia as a way to win favor with Sam, and that that reveal was what would blow up their relationship. But him being on the up and up and her just not being able to do that relationship works much better.

2) The little kid from “E.T.”…

Exactly.

If Michael ever does kill Janet, the show totally needs to make a Nietzsche reference.

The big thing is that Toby actually listens to Kate this season, instead of imposing his ideas of what she wants or needs upon her.

Amaya’s ancestor was played by Maisie Richardson-Sellers’s real life mom, Joy Richardson. (You might recognize her as the last fertile woman in Children of Men)

Also, technically Mick did get to incinerate a few A.R.G.U.S. guards at the Mengele-esque detention facility.

“This house is—”
“Bitchin’?”

The second season made it pretty clear that anti-alien sentiment exists in the Earth-38 America — albeit of the extraterrestrial variety — but I still can’t see how a border wall would be US policy with President Marsdin.

Thank you for sharing that additional context. It makes me appreciate the scene a little more now.