'The Flash' recap: Resilience in the face of crisis

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The impending “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover has cast a pall over The Flash. While the jury's still out on whether or not that'll end up being a good thing, I can say it worked really well in this week's emotional and weighty “A Flash of Lightning,” an hour that nimbly juggles setting up the forthcoming multiversal calamity and building out The Flash's world in interesting, non-“Crisis” related directions. Picking up immediately where the premiere left off, we find Barry and Iris in the Time Vault processing the Monitor's cosmic pronouncement that the Flash must die to save the multiverse. You can feel how much this is weighing on Barry because the episode opens on a close-up of Grant

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