Arrowverse

Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends, Black Lightning and Batwoman.

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Where to start with Arrowverse

Six series that started as one show and grew into an annual crossover event, which is the thing that makes the order matter. Watched separately they are ordinary superhero shows; watched in step by air date they are something closer to a single serial.

  1. 1
    Arrow, series 1 Arrow

    The one that started it, and much the most grounded, no powers, no aliens, just a man with a bow and a flashback structure. Nothing before it, and everything else grows out of it.

  2. 2
    The Flash, series 1 The Flash

    Introduced across two episodes of Arrow's second series and then given its own, with a far lighter tone. Widely held to be the better show, and the one that opened the door to everything stranger that followed.

  3. 3
    Legends of Tomorrow, series 1 DC's Legends of Tomorrow

    Assembled almost entirely from characters introduced in the other two, so it genuinely cannot be a starting point. It also becomes the oddest and funniest of them, once it stops trying to be serious.

Then what? Supergirl ran six series and joined the others properly from its second. Black Lightning and Batwoman are the loosest attachments. From about 2014 onwards there is a crossover every year running across three, four and eventually five shows in a week, so watching by air date rather than one show at a time is the only way those land.

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Series

  • Arrow 2012, 8 seasons, 170 episodes
  • The Flash 2014, 9 seasons, 184 episodes
  • Supergirl 2015, 6 seasons, 126 episodes
  • DC's Legends of Tomorrow 2016, 7 seasons, 110 episodes
  • Black Lightning 2018, 4 seasons, 58 episodes
  • Batwoman 2019, 3 seasons, 51 episodes

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