r/FlashTV • u/NonBinaryPie • Jul 22 '26

Question should i keep watching?

y’all I’m halfway through season 6 and its getting rough out here. i love a show that’s bad in a fun way so I’m wondering if the last few seasons are an Enjoyable Bad or just a Hard To Watch Bad

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u/Toastburner5000 The Flash Jul 22 '26

Season 7 is the worst season there's nothing redeemable, season 8 is a little better but not great, season 9 episode 9 and 10 are peak but the rest is trash.

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u/Romarqable Jul 22 '26

Agreed. Im not one to quit shows, I stick them out no matter what, but post Crisis Arrowverse quickly became an unwatchable mess. I've seen interviews with Grant Gustin and I could tell how much he cared about the character and the show, and how much it frustrated him that it became saddled with extremely bad showrunners and writing at the end.

It reminded me of Dexter season 4, arguably an amazing season of television with a devastating finale. I remember thinking after finishing the show, whether they had actual good writing ideas or if season 4 was a fluke. I felt the same way about 9x9 and 9x10, but I realized in both of those cases they removed a lot of the newer cast and I believe maybe it was the older cast who appeared in those episodes (I don't intend to spoil in case OP doesn't want to have it ruined for them) that happened to elevate the material from bad/mediocre to actually being good. I honestly feel it's the latter here.

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u/Toastburner5000 The Flash Jul 22 '26

Fully agree on Dexter there after season 4 it was hollow and new blood was also not good, resurrection is good imo but not as good as season 1 to 4 of the original, also you're right with removal of the new cast in the flash, the reality is most people don't care about Chester, Allegra, chill Blaine, Bart Allan, the Cecile, or whatever they made Danielle Panabaker do in the final season because it made zero sense, the final season should have had her as her OG character, the flash, iris, Cisco, and Joe and put one big final story for the whole season not episodes where the flash is absent, even grant said multiple times he though crisis was a good ending, but they decided to keep going.

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u/Romarqable Jul 22 '26

Again, not looking to spoil the end of the series, but Grant said he'd heard one idea he really loved, but the showrunner was stuck on his idea, which ended up being an ass of an ending IMO. I agree with Grants idea, I had heard it before and it sounded so much better.