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Darren Criss on Larry King Now (Full Interview)

I thought I was fucking done having to look at his face.

she actually has to sing it as sweetly as audrey did

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I’m a big fan of SuperFlash and want to watch tonight’s episode of Supergirl (looks like the Music Meister makes his appearance on your show first!), but I’m wayyy behind on the most recent season. Would someone kindly give me a quick summary of what I missed?

Fair’s fair: if you’re just joining us for The Flash because you love the girl in blue, here’s what’s been going down in Season 3: Barry Allen, fastest man alive (guy in the red, scarlet speedster), traveled back at the tail end of Season 2, created an alternate universe called “Flashpoint,” and then decided to “reset” the timeline, but the switch up still had consequences in his new home world. How so? He and his friends Cisco Ramon (geek in graphic tees with “Vibe” powers, which means opening dimensions and the like) and Caitlin Snow (white haired meta with ice powers) were on the rocks. Why? Because in the new post-Flashpoint universe, Cisco’s older brother Dante had died several months ago in a car accident, and Barry wasn’t supportive during the grieving process, while Caitlin’s “evil” powers manifest and cause havoc in a “Killer Frost” episode, creating a rift between her and the boys. Luckily, things have settled down as the team grows to accept both the post-Flashpoint universe as well as their powers, and Cisco has even found a fellow “Viber” named Cynthia (or Cindy) Reynolds.

The central love story is still Westallen, or Iris West and Barry Allen, but things have been a bit of a rollercoaster recently. After some unrequited and finally mutual pining for each other in Season 1, pursuing a relationship in Season 2, and finally enjoying half a season cozied up to each other in Season 3, their new engagement hit a road bump. Turns out Barry proposed out of fear: he didn’t want Savitar, this season’s Big Bad (a rather monstrously oversized speedster in black and blue “armor”), to fulfill a “vision of the future,” where Savitar stabs a ring-less Iris through the heart in front of Barry, who cannot save her in time. (Barry had this “vision” when he was accidentally catapulted forward in time before being yanked back to the present.) Since Iris didn’t have an engagement or wedding ring, Barry thought he could throw the future off course if he married her first.

Team Flash’s strategy for the second half of the season has followed this same general formula: change the end result now to change the future. But this time Barry took it too far, because Iris, hurt, postpones the engagement. They finally have a sit down talk in the next episode and reconcile. However, Barry – recently returned from that spooky source-of-his-powers place called the Speed Force after a long-story-short rescue for fellow speedster Wally West, aka Kid Flash – decides that he needs space and moves in with Cisco temporarily. So, once again, their engagement – and even relationship – is on hold.

Little extraneous details that *may* crop up: HR, Tom Cavanagh’s character, is a “Harrison Wells” doppelgänger from Earth 19, an alternate Earth. Earth-1 Harrison Wells, once again long-story-short, was the main Big Bad, the Reverse Flash, of season 1. (The twist: H. Wells is actually an evil time-traveling speedster named Eobard Thawne who stole the original H. Wells’ body to ultimately hitch a ride back-to-the-future from The Flash.) That wound is still sore for Team Flash, but HR – following in the footsteps of another H. Wells doppelgänger back in Season 2, “Harry,” who is also from a different Earth (Earth 2) and substantially less evil – is more comedian than criminal. He’s usually carrying or twirling drumsticks.

Finally: Wally West is Kid Flash! He’s definitely not at his high point right now, though: he just got back from a traumatic encounter with the Speed Force. Additionally, his girlfriend Jesse Quick (originally from Earth 2, she’s Harry Wells’ daughter) has gone to another Earth to protect it. Why? Because the Flash of that world, Jay Garrick, sacrificed himself for Wally so Barry could get Wally out of the Speed Force in the first place. Barry intends to get Jay back too, but for now Jesse’s picking up the slack.