The Flash: All 9 seasons ranked from worst to best

3. The Flash season 3

The third season of The Flash decided to up the ante in a huge way in a bid to become the show’s most larger-than-life offering. Off the back of two evil speedster villains, the series introduced Savitar, the God of Speed, who took a great deal of pleasure in torturing Barry Allen with the promise of killing Iris in the future.

The stakes were certainly present in season 3, as were a number of intriguing new characters, such as Dr. Alchemy, Julian Albert (played by Harry Potter’s Tom Felton) and Earth-19’s Harrison Wells H.R. Unfortunately, it did fall a little short because of the fact that we had another evil speedster on our hands – one so powerful it forced the writers to bend over backwards to make him a more formidable threat than the previous ones, resulting in a time-travel story way too convoluted for its own good.

It also shoehorned Iris into a story that left her with little outside of damsel-in-distress, never really made the most of Felton’s character and spent far too long on its “Future Flash” story that fans ended up figuring out the twist before it played out.

The Flash season 3 certainly had its issues but all in all it still felt inherently like The Flash – something that some of the later seasons failed to do. There were plenty of highs in there too, particularly its musical episode (a crossover with Supergirl) that gave us one of the finest hours in the show’s eight-year history, and the season, as a whole, is much more enjoyable on rewatch.