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Arrow review – 1×07: ‘Muse Of Fire’

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After a Thanksgiving stint off, our favourite non-caped crusader and champion of the people has returned. And he’s met a special lady friend…

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Arrow review – 1×06: ‘Legacies’

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Oliver Queen (Stephen Arnell) is prompted to redefine his definition of both ‘hero’ and ‘crime’ when his family is implicated in a string of robberies in Starlight City. Too bad there’s a doozy of boring B-story sucking the fun out of the episode.

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Arrow review – 1×05: ‘Damaged’

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Arrow gets personal as the series delves deeper into its island mythology and Oliver (Stephen Arnell) goes to semi-great lengths to prove he’s not a vigilante.

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Arrow review – 1×04: ‘An Innocent Man’

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Arrow delivers mostly a dud episode with “An Innocent Man’ as characters pontificate about the necessity of vigilantism. Thankfully there’s a doozy of a pay-off, proving that no good deed goes unpunished.

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Arrow review – 1×03: ‘Lone Gunman’

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Week three of Arrow – which has officially been picked up for the season (huzzah!) – introduces a master assassin named Deadshot, aka Floyd Lawton (Michael Rowe). Does the suitably named killer hit the mark?

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Arrow review – 1×02: ‘Honor Thy Father’

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Pilots are glossy, shiny and new. Last week’s pilot for Arrow, The CW’s biggest hit in years, was all of those things. But the truth is in the second episode – it’s when the characters get fleshed out, the budget comes down to normal levels and the series begins to figure out what the week-to-week will look like. So where does that leave Arrow?

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