The Flash: All 9 seasons ranked from worst to best

4. The Flash season 6

After too many seasons of too many episodes, the creative team decided to use The Flash‘s episode count to their advantage, opting to do two mini-seasons within one. Enter Eric Wallace’s “graphic novel” approach.

The first of those graphic novels saw the introduction of Bloodwork, a villain more horrifying than The Flash was used to, offering up seven episodes of pure intensity, all while successfully setting the stage for the Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover that the show had been building to since it debuted. The second of the arcs was less successful, but it did see the show finally adapt the iconic Mirror Master in Eva McCulloch’s Mirror Monarch, and it centered around a story that allowed Barry and Iris West-Allen to be at the heart of it.

The graphic novel approach was a bold change, but it was one that benefited the show a great deal simply because it reduced the chances of a story getting too dragged out, cutting down on repetitive plots and avoiding glaring plotholes like we saw with Cicada in the previous season. It also allowed the show to give Crisis the focus it needed as it was neatly positioned between the season’s two major storylines.

All in all, season 6 was a major comeback for a show that had been struggling for sometime, and it reinvigorated it a great deal. It’s just a shame it was cut short before the story could finish.