Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Arrowverse catchup, this time looking at Flash Season 5 episode 5, All Doll’d Up. We took a break from Cicada for what was basically a filler episode, but we did get one great villain, if he was just a one off. I’d go as far as to day that he was the creepiest villain that they have ever had in the show.Played by AGT contortionist Troy James, Ragdoll moved and bent in such a sureal and sinister that it left you constantly on edge. It was such an effective visual and really helped him to stand out amongst other villains of the week.

The climax came with Iris very recklessly jumping off of a building to unlock Barry’s power dampening handcuffs so he could save himself. That was just stupid I’m sorry. Neither had powers until the cuffs came off so you are telling me that in real life someone could jump off a building after someone handcuffed and then undo the cuffs while falling??? Ignoring the fact that you would die on impact I still don’t see how that would work. Sure this is a comic book show but when there is no science fiction or super powers involved in a situation then surely regular logic has to apply! Then they completely stole the thunder from Ralph who had just swung through the city like freaking Spiderman for crying out loud!

I did however like how the situation made Nora soften towards Iris. As much as I dislike the Iris character, I did feel bad for her that Nora was blaming her for a lot of stuff she hadn’t actually done yet. Nora should try and make some good memories with her mum, even if she can’t change what she is like in the future. The episode ended with them undoing an interesting change of them having to actually do detective work by gaining control of Devoe’s satellite in place of their own that was disabled. Gotta get back to that Status Quo!

DD Rating: 7/10