The Flash: All 9 seasons ranked from worst to best

8. The Flash season 7

Fresh off a return to form in a brilliant sixth season, The Flash looked to continue its resurgence. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be in season 7.

Not only was it tasked with wrapping up season 6 (which had been cut short due to the pandemic), it had to focus on its two primary storylines – or “graphic novels” as showrunner Eric Wallace likes to call them – as well as an unnecessarily long three-episode interval. Episode count has been an issue for The Flash in the past but that’s usually down to it having too many episodes. Season 7, however, had too much going on and not enough episodes to spotlight any of it.

The Forces of Nature arc was an exciting one on paper, but the execution of it left a lot to be desired, as we eventually got adult human versions of the Speed, Still, Strength and Sage Forces calling Barry and Iris “Mom and Dad” (even though one of them looked like Barry’s mother) and their constantly shifting allegiances made it hard to take any of them seriously. And even though the subsequent Godspeed arc was handled much better, the four-episode saga failed to live up to its year-long build, ending before it really got a chance to showcase the stakes it should have had.

It’s also hard to overlook the fact that the show lost two original cast members this season in Carlos Valdes and Tom Cavanagh. To its credit, it certainly tried kick off a new chapter for Team Flash but both Cisco Ramon and Harrison Wells were so integral to the show that their absences were inevitably going to be felt. And they certainly were.