"Wednesday Ever After" is the first episode of the ninth season of The Flash, and the one-hundred-seventy-second episode overall. It aired on February 8, 2023.
Synopsis[]
| Barry creates a map book to guide him and Iris throughout their future in order to keep her safe, but the results are not what he expected, and instead, they relive the same day over and over again. Joe has a heart-to-heart with Cecile. A new big bad is introduced to Team Flash and friends and foes, old and new, begin to descend upon Central City.[src] |
Plot[]
One week after Thawne and the Negative Forces’ defeat, Barry and Iris continue on with their lives. Iris returns to work where Allegra Garcia informs Iris that Central City Media is being bought by Cat Grant while Barry is recommended as the new director of the Central City Police Department (CCPD) by Kramer before confronting a new Captain Boomerang/Owen Mercer who has robbed a Roemer Accelerator from Kord Industries. When Barry came in contact with the accelerator, it puts Barry and Iris in a time loop. Barry tells Iris that he has a made a book containing the events of their future. Chuck learns that they are able to reverse the effect by analyzing the accelerator’s power source - a quantum based micro circuitry battery. On the seventeenth loop, Iris decides to stay in the loop as Barry figures out that Iris declined Cat’s offer which is the reason why they are stuck in the loop. After an argument, Barry goes to Joe and Cecile where they give advice to Barry that the future is something you create and not follow accordingly prompting Barry to burn his book. On the final loop, Iris and Barry accept their offers from Cat and Kramer while spending as much freedom they have left. Just as Barry and Iris defeat Mercer, Mercer teleports away with the battery and Barry uses his phasing ability to stop the accelerator from erasing the city. In the aftermath, the team figure out Mercer is working for someone else. Cecile masters her powers with Joe who wants to leave Central City. Barry gets a call from Caitlin who says she’s neither Caitlin nor Frost. Mercer is revealed to be working for a speedster with a Batman emblem.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash
- Candice Patton as Iris West-Allen
- Danielle Panabaker as Frost and Khione
- Danielle Nicolet as Defense Attorney Cecile Horton
- Kayla Compton as Allegra Garcia
- Brandon McKnight as Chester P. Runk
- Jon Cor (credit only)
Special guest star[]
Guest starring[]
- Carmen Moore as Captain Kristen Kramer
- Rachel Drance as Taylor Downs
- Richard Harmon as Owen Mercer/Captain Boomerang
- Josh Chambers as Joseph Monteleone/Tar Pit
Co-starring[]
- Stephanie Izsak as Officer Daisy Korber
Uncredited[]
- Unknown as Red Death
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode:
- To be presented in letterbox format.
- To credit Jon Cor (Mark Blaine) as a series regular.
- Since "All's Wells That Ends Wells" to have an opening recap.
- This is also the last episode to have an opening recap.
- In addition to referencing the time loop aspect, the title of the episode remarks on the day of the week that The Flash's Season 9 episodes aired.
- This is the second time that Joseph Monteleone/Tar Pit appeared in the series since his first appearance in the Season 2 episode, "Fast Lane". However, he was recast, now being played by Josh Chambers instead of Marco Grazzini. Coincidentally, this episode aired almost exactly 7 years after "Fast Lane", then on Feb. 2, 2016.
- Cat Grant wanted to incorporate Central City Citizen Media into CatCo, in order to help it grow, offering a blank check to Iris. This fact alone showed Cat respected Iris as a fellow woman who founded her own enterprise.
- This episode shares several similarities to Arrow Season 8 episode "Reset".
- This is the fourth time in the Arrowverse that someone has been stuck in a time loop with Zari being the first in the DC's Legends of Tomorrow episode "Here I Go Again", Nora West-Allen being the second in The Flash episode "Cause and XS", and Oliver Queen being the third in the Arrow episode "Reset".
- Like in many of these episodes (such as "Reset" and "Here I Go Again"), Cecile is quick to liken the happenings of the episode to the Bill Murray Movie "Groundhog Day".
- Like in many of these episodes (such as "Reset" and "Here I Go Again"), Cecile is quick to liken the happenings of the episode to the Bill Murray Movie "Groundhog Day".
Goofs[]
- This episode takes place on February 1st. It was stated in "The Fire Next Time" that this is Henry Allen's birthday, yet nobody mentions it. Furthermore, as stated by Barry, this episode takes place a week after "Negative, Part Two", which would place that episode on January 25, 2023. However, it was stated many times in that episode and the preceding one (which takes place immediately beforehand) that the year was 2022.
- Barry burning the map book shouldn't have been permanent. The book should have been restored along with everything else in the time loop.
- Starting in this episode, the season's title sequence includes a flipped clip of Barry running, causing his lightning emblem to be the wrong way.
References[]
| The Flash season 9 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogue War | ||||
| "Wednesday Ever After" • "Hear No Evil" • "Rogues of War" • "The Mask of the Red Death, Part 1" • "The Mask of the Red Death, Part 2" | ||||
| Interlude IV | ||||
| "The Good, the Bad, and the Lucky" • "Wildest Dreams" • "Partners in Time" • "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To" | ||||
| A New World | ||||
| "A New World, Part One" • "A New World, Part Two" • "A New World, Part Three" • "A New World, Part Four" |