'The Flash' Recap: 'Girls Night Out'

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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​There are plenty of rich and proud traditions that permeate our society, ones that we consider to be so important, that not even superheroes and those that they love are exempt from them. Case in point, the Bachelor/Bachelorlette Party. This final rite of passage before matrimony is an essential celebration to signal the end of the single life and well, on last night’s episode of The Flash, ‘Girls Night Out’, those paramount parties were the focus of one incredibly fun and hilarious story.
 
Because let’s be honest, I think we all spent a fair amount of time last night laughing and laughing hard, especially when it came to Barry’s Bachelor Party since just about every hilarious situation one could put The Flash into, came about in this segment. I mean come on, Dibny having top level VIP status at The Golden Booty? Cisco and Harry making sure to have Hand Santizer on tap and for that matter…Barry getting utterly wasted? If anything, that was really the true highlight of this storyline since my goodness, he is one cuddly and entertaining drunk.
 
But while it would have been beyond amazing to simply watch Barry stay wasted and tell everyone he’s the Flash for an entire hour, there was some plot to be found in this chuckle fest as well, because in a stroke of pure genius, this tale gave all the girls of Team Flash a time to truly shine since Caitlin’s one eyed friend came looking for her since Amunet demanded to see Ms. Snow and it thrust the girls into a grand mystery involving this mysterious villain and her plans to use another Black Matter Meta to manufacture a powerful drug.
 
However, while it was ridiculously awesome to see just the ladies handle business with Barry out of contact and three sheets to the wind (with a lovely assist from Felicity Smoak I might add), the real highlight of this storyline was Caitlin finally confronting the problems that come with her alter ego Killer Frost. She has truly suffered through some tough times when it comes to her transition to a meta and it was wonderful to see Iris reach the good within her and to see Ms. Snow finally find a way to control her powers and use them for good at last.
 
In the end however, this episode was just a complete and utter delight to watch. I laughed way too hard at some of these jokes, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Battlestar Galactica veteran Katee Sackhoff pop up as Amunet since she brought a wonderful zest and zeal to the role that I’m not sure anyone else could have accomplished. Either way, I’m loving these little stand-alone episodes that the show continues to send our way. They’re just good old-fashioned fun, and at this point, necessity, since the Thinker is continuing to put together his master plan, and once he springs it, I have no doubt the show will get a touch more serious as Barry is one again put to the test. Until next time.

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