My series review of “Arrow” a creation by Berlanti Productions, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television .
Title: Arrow
Genre: Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi
Creators / Screenwriters: Greg Berlanti / Andrew Kreisberg / Mark Guggenheim
Writer (book): Comic books: Morton Weisinger and George Papp. Appeared first in ‘More Fun Comics #73’ in November 1941.
Country: USA
Language spoken: English / Spanish / Chinese
Release Date: 10 October 2012 (Canada and USA)
Release in NL: 3 February 2013
Time: ~ 42 minutes every episode
Production Companies: Berlanti Productions, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television
IMDb rating: 8,1 / 10
Rating: 9, 5 / 10
I hope you like the series too. It is worth to watch it! I am not telling too much about the story – never do in my reviews – you have to see the series yourself and make your own opinion.
In my view…
When I started watching this series a couple of months ago, I did not know if I would like all the action in the episodes and the storyline. Does the series Arrow look like the old series Lost? I was thinking about that because of the island and the jungle of the island. But no, they are really two different series.
The main characters
The main character in the first season is the billionaire twenty-something Oliver Queen. He is a guy who was lost, has been on an uncharted island for five years and experienced there a lot. Nice things and less nice things. Throughout the season (and the following seasons) this is becoming more and more clear. When Oliver after five years came back from the island, he brought a secret to Starling City.
Main characters besides Oliver Queen is his mother Moira Queen and her new husband Walter Steele. Also important are his younger sister Thea Queen, best friend Tommy Merlyn and their mutual friend Laurel Lance. Aid always comes from unexpected sources. Two other beautiful characters in the series are those of John Diggle and Felicity Smoak.
Maybe I will write another blog post about the character Felicity Smoak, she is so smart! So incredibly good and the actress Emily Bett Rickards plays here role perfectly. A real IT – girl, hé that’s what I am currently studying…
The story is so complex, I would not miss an episode otherwise you miss so many facts. And to watch every episode attentively and then have finished the first seasons…it continues…but it is so beautiful!
My rating is a 9,5 / 10 and it is not a 10 because all those flashbacks to the island happen so suddenly and the pace of the information given accelerates so sometimes it feels like: “Wait, did I miss already something or not?” but otherwise I think this first season is perfect for me! If the second season can keep my attention…we will see in the next review about Arrow!
This is definitely my favourite action and adventure series!
First episode
Oliver Queen has been considered dead for five years. You see flashes of the island throughout the series. Oliver and his dad are assumed to be dead, drowned by the crash of their yacht. But they both survived the crash. Oliver returns to Starling City after been five years on a nearby island of the crash. The happenings there, turned him into becoming someone else, becoming something else; a green hooded archer. ‘The Hood’
The first episode of this first season had it’s première on 3 February 2013. The 23rd and last episode of this season was on 7 July 2013.
The overview of the episodes
- Episode 1 ‘Pilot’
- Episode 2 ‘Honor Thy Father’
- Episode 3 ‘Lone Gunmen’
- Episode 4 ‘An Innocent Man’
- Episode 5 ‘Damaged’
- Episode 6 ‘Legacies’
- Episode 7 ‘Muse of Fire’
- Episode 8 ‘Vendetta’
- Episode 9 ‘Year’s End’
- Episode 10 ‘Burned’
- Episode 11 ‘Trust But Verify’
- Episode 12 ‘Vertigo’
- Episode 13 ‘Betrayal’
- Episode 14 ‘The Odyssey’
- Episode 15 ‘Dodger’
- Episode 16 ‘Dead to Rights’
- Episode 17 ‘The Huntress Returns’
- Episode 18 ‘Salvation’
- Episode 19 ‘Unfinished Business’
- Episode 20 ‘Home Invasion’
- Episode 21 ‘The Undertaking’
- Episode 22 ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’
- Episode 23 ‘Sacrifice’
Top 25 cast:
- Stephen Amell / Oliver Queen
- Katie Cassidy / Laurel Lance
- David Ramsey / John Diggle
- Willa Holland / Thea Queen
- Emily Bett Rickards / Felicity Smoak
- Paul Blackthorne / Quentin Lance
- John Barrowman / Malcolm Merlyn
- Colton Haynes / Roy Harper
- Susanna Thompson / Moira Queen
- Manu Benned / Slade Wilson
- Caity Lotz / Sara Lance
- Colin Donnell / Tommy Merlyn
- Neal McDonough / Damien Darhk
- Celina Jade / Shado
- Brandon Routh / Ray Palmer
- Karl Yune / Maseo Yamashiro
- Keri Adams / Bethany Snow
- Audrey Marie Anderson / Lyla Michaels
- Cynthia Addai-Robinson / Amanda Waller
- Colin Salmon / Walter Steele
- Rula Fukushima / Tatsu Yamashiro
- Katrina Law / Nyssa al Ghul
- Brandon Nomura / Akio Yamashiro
- Kevin Alejandro / Sebastian Blood
- Byron Mann / Yao Fei
Enjoy watching this season!
Greetings by Sophie
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