Critical Path: Arrow Season 1 - The Hood

ARROW season 1 can be streamed on Netflix .

This is an attempt to deliver a critical path through Season 1 of Arrow so that you can easier catch up for the next season. What is the base number of episodes necessary to best understand and get through the season.

I wouldn’t begrudge you simply watching the pilot episode and then jumping to episode 11 “Trust but Verify”. The first half of Arrow season 1 is tonally uneven, having great action but poor acting or vice versa. It isn’t really until “Trust but Verify” that it all begins to come together. However this is an attempt to still view Season 1 as a singular tome and so some episodes are added because they are necessary for the arch or either the season or character. Not all the episodes are the greatest but overall this is what I’d go with.

Some interesting episodes/pariings is the Huntress Trilogy (7,8,17) beginning the motif of Oliver as a teacher.Two Episodes you could add are 1x12 “Vertigo” and 1x19 “Unfinished Buisness” a duology involving the Count (the first adaptation of Count Vertigo)

Critical Path Season 2 and Season 3