The 8 Best Episodes Of The Flash So Far

3) Fast Enough (Season 1, Episode 23)

The Flash’s first season cleverly eschewed the usual rules by having the big defeat of Reverse-Flash in the previous episode, leaving this one to be a more emotional climax that wrapped up the hero’s personal journey instead.

Here, Barry faces an impossible choice – go back and save his mother and let his enemy escape or stop him and let his mother die all over again. Like every superhero, this was when Barry had to decide between his personal happiness and the right thing to do. More than that, though, it also brought The Flash’s central theme into focus – that we can find love out of loss and the friends we make can be just as important as our blood relations.

Barry’s eventual decision was, of course, completely negated when he destroyed the current timeline at the end of season 2, but it doesn’t make this episode any less poignant.