Everything you need to know about The Flash season 3, including release date, trailers, story details, casting, and more!
Don't worry, The Flash Season 3 is happening. The CW officially confirmed The Flash Season 3 back in March, along with renewals of just about every other show on its roster, including ArrowSeason 5 and Legends of Tomorrow Season 2!
An extended trailer just arrived, showcasing a lot of the new Flashpoint reality...
And check out the new poster!
The Flash Season 3 Release Date
The Flash Season 3 will premiere on Tuesday, October 4th at 8 pm.
The Flash Season 3 Episodes
The Flash Season 3 Episode 1: Flashpoint
air date: 10/4/16
The Flash Season 3 Episode 2: TBA
Barry (Grant Gustin) realizes the effects from Flashpoint are much greater than he thought. Meanwhile, Barry meets new co-worker Julian Albert (Tom Felton) and is surprised by Julian’s immediate disdain for Barry.
air date: 10/11/16
The Flash Season 3 Episode 3: TBA
The Flash Season 3 Episode 4: TBA
The Flash Season 3 Episode 5: Monster
The Flash Season 3 Episode 6: TBA
The Flash Season 3 Episode 7: Killer Frost
The title of the Kevin Smith directed episode of The Flash season 3 has been revealed by the director himself. Be careful, though, as it's something of a spoiler, so don't read any further if you're worried about it.
I start shooting my second episode of @CW_TheFlash today! Big thanks to @AJKreisberg & @GBerlanti for another run! pic.twitter.com/2leDmdzVju
— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) September 14, 2016
Can you read underneath the pen there? No? Well, the paper is kind of transparent, so you can still see the episode title underneath.
It's "Killer Frost." Whether this means a return for the Earth 2 version of Caitlin or a hint at a darker turn for the character we know and love remains to be seen.
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The Flash Season 3 Trailer
And now, the first look at The Flash Season 3, and its reality warping "Flashpoint" story has arrived. Check it out! The 20-second tease focuses on Barry trying to wrap his brain around Flashpoint — and it seems like this universe's Henry Allen might be helping.
We also get a split-second look at what appears to be the Cult of Savitar (at :08) — aka the unflinchingly loyal Thunderbolt Agents — and more time with the pompous, very rich Cisco of this reality. Check it out for yourself...
The Flash Season 3 Kid Flash Details
Keiynan Lonsdale will finally put on the Kid Flash costume, at least for The Flash season 3 premiere. But here's the thing, if Wally is Kid Flash in the premiere, which is titled "Flashpoint" and presumably takes place in an altered timeline, what does this mean for Wally's future as Kid Flash? There were indications at the end of season two that the pieces were in place for his speed powers to manifest, but they hadn't yet.
So, is this Kid Flash an alternate timeline Wally who is already an experienced crimefighter? And when does this mean we'll get to see him in the suit if/when the show returns to "normal" after the events of the season 2 finale? Confused? We wrote much more about how Flashpoint will influence this season right here.
Check out the costume, which is somehow even more faithful to the comic book version than Barry's costume is. This looks really great.
Note the lightning emblem, which looks quite a bit like the version of the emblem Wally/Flash wore on the Justice League Unlimited animated series.
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The Flash Season 3 Story
The official synopsis for The Flash season 3 has landed, although you know most of this already...we got some more substantial details from the cast and crew about "Flashpoint" right here if you prefer.
Until recently, 26 year-old Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police department. He was secretly in love with his best friend, Iris West (Candice Patton), daughter of Barry’s surrogate father, Detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin). Joe adopted Barry fifteen years ago after Barry’s mother was murdered and Barry’s father, Henry Allen, received a life sentence for the crime – though Barry always maintained that a mysterious “Man in Yellow” was responsible. Then the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with superspeed and making him the fastest man alive. But Barry wasn’t the only person who was given extraordinary abilities that night. The dark matter also created meta-humans, many of whom have wreaked havoc with their powers on the city. With the help of his scientist friends at S.T.A.R Labs, Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker), Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), and Dr. Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanaugh), Barry began a journey as The Flash to protect the people of Central City from these powerful new threats. With this team, Barry was finally able to defeat the Man in Yellow, aka The Reverse Flash, but in their epic battle, a Singularity was ripped in space and time that threatened to destroy them all.
After successfully closing the Singularity from destroying Central City, Barry thinks he’s seen the worst… but the arrival of Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears) reveals that the Singularity actually opened portals to an alternate Earth, known as Earth-2, which is being terrorized by a formidable evil speedster named Zoom. As Zoom sends an army of Earth-Two meta-humans to Earth-1 to defeat Barry, he receives unexpected assistance from the Earth-Two doppelganger of his former mentor, Harrison Wells. Meanwhile, Cisco discovers that he, too, was affected by the dark matter of the Particle Accelerator and must come to terms with his newfound powers. As Barry struggles to juggle life as a hero, he opens his heart to Patty Spivot (Shantel VanSanten), a spunky detective paired with Joe West, but realizes just how hard it is to find happiness when the lives of everyone you love are at stake. He finds some solace in the companionship of his father, Henry Allen, who was freed from a wrongful life sentence... but when Zoom kills Henry before Barry’s eyes, Barry’s newfound stability is shattered.
Blinded by anger, Barry unwittingly plays into Zoom’s game and uncovers the evil speedster’s true goal: to destroy all Earths in the multiverse. In the race of his life, Barry ultimately gets the upper hand against Zoom and defeats his nemesis. But unable to celebrate victory, Barry makes a world-shaking decision and speeds back in time to the night his mother died to stop Reverse Flash from killing her, irrevocably changing his past and redetermining his future.
Well, this is too much for just one post, but we have our suspicions which comic book storyline that the next season will take its cues from. Click here for more on that.
The best, latest news from The Flash camp? Showrunner Andrew Kreisberg confirmed that we will be getting a two-part episode of The Flash set in Gorilla City. (Presumably this is not the two-part The Flash/Supergirl crossover we are also getting this season, but kind of want that to happen just to find out what Grodd's singing voice might be like...)
Kreisberg told those gathered at last week's TCA summer press tour (via Collider): “Yes, we’re going to be doing a two-part episode that takes place in Gorilla City.” (Does this mean we will be back on Earth-Two? Can we hang out with Earth-Two Barry and Iris again? They were fun.)
There's also the chance that they could adapt a really famous story from the comics for The Flash season 3, but that seems like it might be more at home as a season 4 or 5 thing to me.
Eagle-eyed comic book fans will have noticed the resemblance between the melty-faced Zoom from the end of The Flash's season 2 finale and a comic book character known as The Black Racer (aka The Black Flash). In the comics, this black-suited and facially-disfigured figure is essentially the Grim Reaper of speedsters, and he looms in the Speed Force to signify someone speedy's death.
Was this nod deliberate? Could Teddy Sears' Zoom return as The Black Racer? As it turns out, the answer to both of those questions is yes.
"Obviously, we did that on purpose," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg has told EW. "We love working with Teddy. He's such an amazing actor and amazing person, and was so much a part of the success of the show last season."
"There aren’t any immediate plans for that [storyline], but you can’t keep a good Black Flash down, so I’m sure we’ll be seeing him in the future," Kreisberg added.
The Flash Season 3 Villains
TVLine reports that Todd Lasance (Spartacus: War of the Damned) will be appearing in a recurring role of The Rival starting in the season 3 premiere.
In the comics, The Rival — aka Dr. Edward Clariss — is a professor who believes he has recreated Velocity-9, the chemical that enhances Jay Garrick's super speed. When no ones believes him, he experiments on himself and takes to the streets as a darker version of The Flash to prove it.
We're guessing this is the evil new speedster we saw in the Comic Con trailer whom we had previously speculated looked a bit like the New 52 version of the Black Racer. Check it out below...
The Flash season 3 has added to new villains to the rogues gallery: Top, who will be played by Ashley Rickards (MTV's Awkward), according to E! Online, and Magenta, who will be played by Joey King (Fargo), according to Comicbook.com.
If you've never heard of these villains before, that's because they're DC deep cuts. Top has the power to spin at a very high speed, and she'll be "the Bonnie to Mirror Master's Clyde," reports E! Online. Magenta boasts magnetic powers and has a split personality. So not your usual rogues. Here's a first look at Magenta, as revealed by Joey King on Twitter:
The Flash executive producer Todd Helbing talked to IGN about how Savitar — yet another evil speedster to plague Barry Allen — will differ from the villains we've seen previously on The Flash. Helbing teased:
Savitar is more of a psychological villain in a weird way. I think the Hindu word for Savitar means God of Speed; he's all about speed. Everything about this guy is different. I can't go into super detail, but he's not like Zoom or Reverse Flash.
Let's hope so. The Flash season 2 was bogged down in its second half by a speedster villain who was too similar to its first season villain — but not as good. If The Flash season 3 wants to get back in our good graces, then it's got to up its villain game in the new season. A well-executed Savitar would be a good place to start.
As for how Dr. Alchemy, the other big bad at play in The Flash season 3, might come into play, Helbing teased: "I'll just say that Dr. Alchemy's plan and Savitar's plan are not much different." Could these villains be working together? Personally, I'd like to see a villain team-up after so much solo villain-y in the first two seasons of the superhero show (anarchistic Zoom garage bands, aside).
The Flash Season 3 Cast
Tom Felton (yes, that Tom Felton, Draco Malfoy himself) has joined the cast of The Flash Season 3 as a series regular (via TV Line). He'll play Julian Dorn. An earlier description of the character that surfaced before Felton's arrival offered some other clues. Dorn is another CSI at Central City PD "who suspects there's more to Barry than just his good guy reputation."
TV Line described the (then unnamed) Dorn as "Barry’s slightly older, slightly geekier contemporary, a guy who is as smart as he is intuitive." He "doesn't buy Barry's nice guy routine" and starts doing some investigating "all while concealing some secrets of his own."
I'm still hoping that "Julian Dorn" is an alias for "Ralph Dibny" because that would be amazing.
Even though it seemed like his time was up, Tom Cavanagh will return as a series regular yet again next year! Whether he plays a familiar character or another new version of Harrison Wells remains to be seen.
Violett Beane will return as Jesse Wells. “I know I’ll be back,” Ms. Beane told TVLine. “But I don’t know if it’s with or without powers.”
But we don't know which version she'll be. Is this the Earth-2 Jesse? A new version in the Flashpoint timeline? Someone we haven't met before?
And she's still not sure when (or if!) her speed powers will manifest. "When Jesse got hit, I was like ‘It’s happening! It’s happening!'” she said. “There was the spark when she got out of the coma, but… it didn’t happen, and I was like, ‘No!’ I’m very excited [to play a speedster], and would love for it to happen early next season.”
In non-speedster news, there are hints we might meet Caitlin Snow's mother this season, as well.
We don't know much else about The Flash season 3 right now. We do know that Zack Stentz has joined up as a consulting producer. Stentz, currently garnering acclaim for the episode he wrote (the Kevin Smith directed "The Runaway Dinosaur" and you can read our review here), announced the news on Twitter.
Stentz is a live action superhero veteran, having worked on the screenplays for X-Men: First Class and Thor. He's currently credited on the upcoming Power Rangers movie, too. He demonstrated a real grasp of the characters on The Flash with "The Runaway Dinosaur" so he should fit right in.
The latest The Flash season 3 news? Caitlin is getting a family! It only took two seasons, but The Flash has cast Susan Walters (of Vampire Diaries fame) as Dr. Carla Tannhauser. According to Entertainment Weekly, in addition to being Dr. Snow's doctor mom, Carla is "a world class biomedical engineer and CEO of a major research company."
As was hinted at when Caitlin had a chat with her Earth Two doppelganger, Killer Frost, in season 2, Caitlin doesn't have the best relationship with her mom. Caitlin finds her mom cold and distant, while Carla sees her daughter as an ungrateful rebel. Sounds like we're in for lots more domestic drama come season 3. Carla has the potential of being a recurring character, so it's unclear if she will be part of the Flashpoint reality, the original reality, or both.
In a move that will have Flash fans everywhere saying "finally!" the show will finally introduce Mirror Master this year. Grey Damon (Aquarius, Star-Crossed) will play Sam Scudder, one of Flash's oldest comic book foes, first appearing in The Flash #105 in 1959. Like most great Flash villains, he owes his fictional life to John Broome and Carmine Infantino. Comic Book Resources broke the news.
Here's the official character description:
"One of the Flash's most infamous Rogues, Sam Scudder -- aka Mirror Master -- is a smooth criminal with a huge ego. Upon discovering he now has the power to travel through any reflective surface, Scudder embarks on a massive crime spree to prove himself the greatest thief that Central City has ever seen."
Expect Mirror Master to make his first appearance in The Flash season 3 episode 4.
The Flash Season 3 Photos
We've got lots of new images from The Flash season 3 premiere that tease what life in the Flashpoint reality will be like. This includes some great shots of Kid Flash, Reverse Flash, a happy (and, you know, alive) Henry and Nora Allen, and some cozy WestAllen shots.
We also see some pics of Reverse Flash behind bars — seemingly put there by Barry. It looks like a bumpy ride for Barry, both in terms of how complicatingly comfortable this new reality seems to be, and in terms of Reverse Flash immediately being on Barry's case. Frankly, we wouldn't expect anything less from the singleminded Eobard Thawne... Be sure to scroll through the rest of the pics in the gallery above.
We'll update this post with all the details on The Flashseason 3 as they become available.
