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The sixth season of the American television series ''
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'', which is based on the
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character Barry Allen / Flash, premiered on
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on October 8, 2019. The season follows Barry as he navigates through the Crisis and the emergence of Bloodwork and Eva McCulloch. It is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with the other television series of the universe, and is a spin-off of ''
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''. The season is produced by
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, Warner Bros. Television, and
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, with Eric Wallace serving as
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. The season was ordered in January 2019, and was originally planned to have 22 episodes. Filming began that July, and production was shut down in March 2020 due to the
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, leaving the season with only 19 episodes. Grant Gustin stars as
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, with principal cast members Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes,
Hartley Sawyer Hartley Sawyer (born January 25, 1985) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kyle Abbott on the CBS Daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' and Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man on The CW series ''The Flash''. Career In Ma ...
, Danielle Nicolet,
Tom Cavanagh Thomas Cavanagh (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian actor. He is known for a variety of roles on American television, including starring roles in '' Ed'' (2000–2004), ''Love Monkey'' (2006) and '' Trust Me'' (2009), and recurring roles on ...
, and
Jesse L. Martin Jesse Lamont Martin ('' né'' Watkins; January 18, 1969) is an American actor and singer. He originated the role of Tom Collins on Broadway in the musical ''Rent'' and performed on television as NYPD Detective Ed Green on '' Law & Order'' and ...
also returning from previous seasons, while LaMonica Garrett was promoted to series regular from his guest status in
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. They are joined by new cast member
Efrat Dor Efrat Dor ( he, אפרת דור; born 6 January 1983) is an Israeli actress. She is best known for portraying Magdalena Gross in the film '' The Zookeeper’s Wife'', as Lizzie DeLaurentis in the Amazon show ''Sneaky Pete'', and as Eva McCulloch ...
while former series regular Keiynan Lonsdale makes a guest appearance. This is the last season to feature Sawyer as a series regular. The series was renewed for a seventh season on January 7, 2020.


Episodes


Cast and characters


Main

* Grant Gustin as Barry Allen / Flash /
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* Candice Patton as Iris West-Allen and Mirror Iris West-Allen * Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow and Frost * Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon / Vibe (Earth-1) and Cisco Ramon / Echo (Earth-19) *
Hartley Sawyer Hartley Sawyer (born January 25, 1985) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kyle Abbott on the CBS Daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' and Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man on The CW series ''The Flash''. Career In Ma ...
as Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man * Danielle Nicolet as Cecile Horton * LaMonica Garrett as Mar Novu / Monitor and
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*
Efrat Dor Efrat Dor ( he, אפרת דור; born 6 January 1983) is an Israeli actress. She is best known for portraying Magdalena Gross in the film '' The Zookeeper’s Wife'', as Lizzie DeLaurentis in the Amazon show ''Sneaky Pete'', and as Eva McCulloch ...
as
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*
Tom Cavanagh Thomas Cavanagh (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian actor. He is known for a variety of roles on American television, including starring roles in '' Ed'' (2000–2004), ''Love Monkey'' (2006) and '' Trust Me'' (2009), and recurring roles on ...
as Harrison Wells and Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash *
Jesse L. Martin Jesse Lamont Martin ('' né'' Watkins; January 18, 1969) is an American actor and singer. He originated the role of Tom Collins on Broadway in the musical ''Rent'' and performed on television as NYPD Detective Ed Green on '' Law & Order'' and ...
as Joe West


Recurring

*
Sendhil Ramamurthy Sendhil Amithab Ramamurthy (born May 17, 1974) is an American actor. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Ramamurthy is best known for his roles as geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC sci-fi drama ''Heroes'', Gabriel "Gabe" Lowan in ''Beauty and t ...
as Ramsey Rosso / Bloodwork * Victoria Park as
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and Mirror Kamilla Hwang * Kayla Compton as Allegra Garcia and Maya * Alexa Barajas as Esperanza Garcia / Ultraviolet * Patrick Sabongui as David Singh and Mirror David Singh


Guest


"Crisis on Infinite Earths"


Production


Development

The series was renewed for a sixth season by
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on January 31, 2019, along with a 22-episode order. In March 2019, it was announced that Eric Wallace would replace
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as
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for the season.


Writing

The season is split in two halves, each having their own self-contained Big Bad story. Each half is referred to by the producers as a "Graphic Novel", the first one is titled "Blood and Truth", and the second one titled "Reflections and Lies". The split was done to avoid inducing fatigue by keeping one Big Bad for 22 episodes, as previous seasons had done. Wallace felt episode 19, which became the season finale due to the
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halting all production, worked in the series' favor because it had "a big cliffhanger" that was "a good pause point". The remaining three episodes, which had been written, will become the first three episodes of season seven. Wallace conceded there may be a few small adjustments made based on how the pandemic would affect shooting, but said
Eva McCulloch '' The Flash'' is an American television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, based on the DC Comics character the Flash. The series premiered on The CW television network in the United States on October 7, 201 ...
's story "is on a very specific trajectory that we want to honor and finish." Wallace continued that he thought having these three episodes start season seven was "making it stronger because it's forcing us to look at these two separate things — which is the end of Eva's story and the beginning of the next villain's story and how he relates to
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and Iris —" and making a strong connection between them.


Casting

Main cast members Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes,
Hartley Sawyer Hartley Sawyer (born January 25, 1985) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kyle Abbott on the CBS Daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' and Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man on The CW series ''The Flash''. Career In Ma ...
, Danielle Nicolet and
Jesse L. Martin Jesse Lamont Martin ('' né'' Watkins; January 18, 1969) is an American actor and singer. He originated the role of Tom Collins on Broadway in the musical ''Rent'' and performed on television as NYPD Detective Ed Green on '' Law & Order'' and ...
return as Barry Allen / Flash, Iris West-Allen, Caitlin Snow / Frost, Cisco Ramon, Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man, Cecile Horton, and Joe West.
Tom Cavanagh Thomas Cavanagh (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian actor. He is known for a variety of roles on American television, including starring roles in '' Ed'' (2000–2004), ''Love Monkey'' (2006) and '' Trust Me'' (2009), and recurring roles on ...
also returns as a regular, portraying Nash Wells, another doppelgänger of his character Harrison Wells. Cavanagh also returns as Eobard Thawne / Reverse Flash. Valdes also portrayed Cisco's Earth-19 doppelganger "Echo" in the episode "Kiss Kiss Breach Breach".
Sendhil Ramamurthy Sendhil Amithab Ramamurthy (born May 17, 1974) is an American actor. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Ramamurthy is best known for his roles as geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC sci-fi drama ''Heroes'', Gabriel "Gabe" Lowan in ''Beauty and t ...
was cast in a recurring role as Ramsey Rosso / Bloodwork, the Big Bad of the season's first half.
Efrat Dor Efrat Dor ( he, אפרת דור; born 6 January 1983) is an Israeli actress. She is best known for portraying Magdalena Gross in the film '' The Zookeeper’s Wife'', as Lizzie DeLaurentis in the Amazon show ''Sneaky Pete'', and as Eva McCulloch ...
appears as a series regular in the second half of the season as Eva McCulloch.


Design

The season introduces a new Frost costume which has a more vibrant blue color scheme than the older costume, exposes the shoulders and features a chest emblem shaped like an ice crystal.


Filming

Production for the season began on July 2, 2019, in
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,
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, and was expected to conclude on April 6, 2020. However, on March 13, 2020, production was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 90% of the planned 20th episode was filmed by that time, with one more day of filming anticipated to complete it. Though it was initially planned for production on the rest of the season to resume later in the year, the remaining episodes were ultimately not filmed as part of the sixth season.


Arrowverse tie-ins

At the end of the 2018 Arrowverse crossover "
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", the follow-up crossover was revealed to be "Crisis on Infinite Earths" based on the comic book of the same name. The crossover took place over five episodes–three (including the ''Flash'' episode) in December 2019 and two in January 2020.


Release


Broadcast

The season premiered on October 8, 2019, in the United States on The CW. It was initially set to run for 22 episodes, but as production on the season could not continue due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the nineteenth episode was later announced as the season finale.


Reception


Ratings


Critical response

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reported a 85% approval rating for the sixth season with an average rating of 6.89/10, based on 5 reviews.


Accolades

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Notes


References

General references * *


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Flash season 6, The 2019 American television seasons 2020 American television seasons The Flash (2014 TV series) seasons Television series set in 2019 Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic