The Flash season 8, episode 14 review: Funeral for a Friend

“The more I think about, the more I don’t what to say.” Spoilers for The Flash season 8, episode 14 follow.

Team Flash is reeling from Frost’s death, with each of them trying to figure out their own way to honor her memory.

Meanwhile, a new villain makes an appearance in Central City.

Here’s everything that went down in The Flash season 8, episode 14 “Funeral For A Friend”.

Funerals in The Flash season 8

How this episode starts off, there’s really no word other that can be used other than cringe. I mean, beginning the episode with a sad song playing over Chester getting sad at seeing the Killer Frost drink at Jitters and, even worse, the walk signal at a crosswalk reminds Iris of Frost. The second one in particular takes the cake as an unusually questionable way to depict grief on television.

Things do get better for the episode, especially in the cases of Caitlin and, mostly, Barry. Other than the random Hot Dog eating contest that was seemingly to honor Frost, Barry’s part of the episode is pretty great, especially his interaction with Chillblaine. Seriously, if Chillblaine keeps on the more serious track that he’s been going down, he’ll be a great character. Tom Cor has been great since he first showed up, despite having very poor writing for the character, so it’s nice to see him have some good writing lately.

This episode honestly does a great job of capturing both Caitlin’s depression and anger over the death of her sister. It feels very real and seeing her lash out at those who care about her is something that people definitely do and Danielle Panabaker sells that pain incredibly well.

However, as great as these parts were, Chester and Allegra’s part was terrible. It was so incredibly annoying hearing them argue about hummus for a good portion of their screen-time. Like, yeah sure, they’re angry about Frost’s death and taking it out on each other, but it could’ve been with anything other than an argument about Hummus. They also have Chillblaine back as his annoying self here, which was well, frustrating considering that he was good in the rest of the episode.

Problems on the battlefield

And there’s really not much to the episode other than what’s above. There’s one scene where the team goes into the field and that’s about it. It’s a bit nice because it makes for sense for the team to reactively think they can rely on Frost and they obviously can’t, which throws them off, especially Allegra and Chester.

But other than that, the big question is, why is Cecile in the field? She’s absolutely worthless in the field and that is very much the case in this one scene.

New villain

Man, this new villain though is the absolute worst. He’s so poorly designed, makes absolutely no impact on the episode, and is literally in the one scene that the team is in the field. But seriously, this is the worst designed villain that the show has had in, well, maybe ever. It’s such an ugly design that has no redeeming features whatsover.

The worst part is that this is SUPPOSED TO BE BLOCKBUSTER?!? Blockbuster, for one, is a gang boss and is basically the DC version of Kingpin at times. But instead of making him a season long villain that Team Flash can’t just punch, the show has made him a terribly designed throwaway villain that appears in literally one scene.

While much better at times than the previous episode, The Flash still flounders for at least half of this episode, if not more.

The Flash season 8 airs new episodes on The CW each Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. ET.

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