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shit is like a soap opera now.
I was JUST gonna post the same.
It was always but now?
It just went completely over..because they have been so consistently good?
Imma ride with it but they going down a slippery slope.
starting to lose me on this bullshit, same whiney shit week in, week out
The Flash-Supergirl musical crossover: Carlos Valdes on the non-Glee reunion of it all
NATALIE ABRAMS@NATALIEABRAMS
POSTED ON MARCH 19, 2017 AT 9:00AM EDT
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While the upcoming Flash–Supergirl musical crossover features a big Glee reunion between Grant Gustin, Melissa Benoist, and Darren Criss, there are also other rich connections that run deep within this cast — and they oddly have to do with genitalia.
It turns out, Criss went to college with The Flash star Carlos Valdes, and even before this highly anticipated hour, the duo were already making music together, specifically for a show called Me and My Dick. The crossover, however, will be a little more PC as The Flash (Gustin) and Supergirl (Benoist) find themselves trapped in a movie musical by the Music Meister (Criss), and their only means of escape are to play through the script, complete with singing and dancing.
In a nod to Kara’s favorite film, The Wizard of Oz, everyone else in the vocally impressive cast is playing a character within this movie, thus Valdes doesn’t appear as Cisco, but as Pablo, a busboy at the nightclub owned by John Barrowman’s mobster who has aspirations of becoming a singer. EW sat down with Valdes to talk about the big reunion.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you feel when you first learned you guys were doing a musical crossover?
CARLOS VALDES: You know, some things are just star-crossed. Some things are just destined and written in the stars. This felt like one of those instances where it was just something that was going to happen. I think the cast saw it coming, the bosses saw it coming, and to a certain degree it could be argued that the fans saw it happening. I think everybody was just really jazzed. You have to admit, it’s undeniably curious that so many people in our cast come from theater and have that skill set. So, I think it was just a no-brainer. Add to the mix that Greg Berlanti is a big fan of musicals, and presto — we’ve got a musical episode!
What has the prep been like for this episode between music and choreography?
I was expecting there to be a bit more of a learning curve than there actually was. I was expecting us to have to scramble at the last minute to figure out how to make this happen. But honestly, it’s been a lot more fluid than I expected and I attribute that, honestly, to a good team. I mean, we’ve got [choreographer] Zach Woodlee from Glee, so he’s such a pro at this. He’s already got it mapped out. He already knows how to set it on the actors and it looks beautiful. So, I’m excited to see how it looks in the end, but as far as the process is concerned, it’s super. [Laughs]
How nervous were you going into your first take?
Well, I’m about to do it right now. You know, I have to say, I’m not really that nervous. I mean, this is sort of my bread and butter. This is the world that I come from. I have a degree in musical theater, so this is my sh—. You know what I mean? So, being here and doing this, I actually feel more at ease than I think I would at any other regular day on set.
What’s been the hardest part about the musical so far?
The hardest part? The hardest part for me is reformatting my conception of the performance of the musical for the camera. Because I’m used to having the experience of being in theater where it’s ephemeral, and it’s live, it’s big and it’s committed in that way, but when you reformat it so that it can work on camera it has to be filtered through a different understanding. So, the recording process, like making sure that my performance in the recording booth is matched by my live performance, that’s been an interesting aspect to play around with. Doing dance rehearsals so that we can do the performance and it can be captured once instead of rehearsing a number so that I can do it eight times a week for ad infinitum. This is very different having to rehearse so that we can just get one product out there and ship it out, and mass-produce it. It’s very different for me in that sense.
You went to college with Darren. What was it like reuniting with him in this capacity?
Dude, it’s been such a hoot and it’s been such a blast. It’s like old times. It’s weird because I’m seeing worlds mesh before my eyes, like, worlds that are very separate. There’s my Flash life, these people that I’ve been working with for the last two to three years, and then there’s Darren, whom I used to goof off with in college and write musicals about genitalia. [Laughs] That’s what we used to do. So, it’s very weird to have to experience that through a work setting, but dude it’s so much fun. Honestly, he works so hard — it’s been a really enriching experience and I’m learning a lot from it.
How is the Music Meister different from some of the villains we’ve seen on the show before?
Given the tone of the broadly colored musical, I think fans can expect Music Meister to be someone colored along those lines, basically. Definitely very different. I mean, it’s Darren. He’s such a goof and so he brings that vivaciousness to this character that I think distinguishes him from the usually dour metahumans that we have to face. So, it’s been really entertaining watching him play this, like, semi-narcissistic sadistic Music Meister.
Do we finally get the long-awaited interaction between Cisco and Winn?
Well, actually Winn in this episode is only present in the musical dream and he and I actually play a lot in that dream world. But in the real world, it’s actually Mon-El and J’onn J’onzz who bring Kara to Earth-1, so no. But it’s been a blast working with all of them. I met Chris Wood back when he was doing Containment and we were doing upfronts, and he’s such a cool guy. And I’ve heard Grant talk so much about how surreal it is for him to not just work with Darren and Melissa, but also to work with Chris, whom he went to college with. You know what I mean? So, there’s a lot of weird alma mater connections there.
The musical crossover will kick off at the end of Supergirl’s March 20 hour, with the majority of the action taking place during The Flash‘s March 21 episode; Supergirl airs Mondays at 8 p.m., and The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW. Check out our full gallery of The Flash–Supergirl musical crossover photos here, get the scoop on the crossover here, check out our interviews with Darren Criss here and Melissa Benoist here.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/19/flash-supergirl-musical-crossover-carlos-valdes/
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The Flash nixes speedster villain in season 4
NATALIE ABRAMS@NATALIEABRAMS
POSTED ON MARCH 18, 2017 AT 6:37PM EDT
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The Flash is going to be shaking things up in season 4!
Though The CW super series has featured a speedster villain each season — Reverse-Flash, Zoom, and Savitar — that won’t be the case moving forward.
“Next season we’re not going to have a speedster [as the villain],” executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said at PaleyFest on Saturday, where the casts of Arrow, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and The Flash gathered to spill scoop on their respective series.
For now, the mystery plaguing Team Flash is the identity of Savitar. The all-powerful speedster claims to be a god, but that was proven untrue when Jesse Quick (Violett Beane) was able to wound him. “With Savitar, we know who he is under there,” Kreisberg says. “We’ve been planning this for a while and we’re really excited about it.”
They may get help in that regard with the upcoming introduction of Abra Kadabra (David Dastmalchian). “Episode 18 has Abra Kadabra, who is also a villain from the future,” Kreisberg says. “He knows who Savitar is and comes with a moral conundrum: Do Barry and the team let Abra Kadabra go in order to get Savitar’s identity? It’s a great mortality play. Iris and Barry have a great scene, ‘Can you be a hero if you do one bad thing?'”
In order to gain more information on Savitar, Barry will subsequently go to the future during episode 19, which is called “The Once and Future Flash,” which is the title of a 1993 issue of the comics. “Barry decides that the only way he can find out what he needs to know is in the future,” Kreisberg says.
In the meantime, Barry’s (Grant Gustin) attention will turn away from the big bad during Tuesday’s episode as the Scarlet Speedster gets trapped in a ’40s send-up alongside Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) — both of whom are facing personal issues in their respective love lives.
“The person who did those episodes the best were Joss Whedon,” Kreisberg says of “gimmick” hours. “They didn’t stop the main ongoing narrative of the season… those episodes really spoke to what the characters were going through. We set it up on both Supergirl and Flash that Barry and Kara would be at romantic crossroads so when they go into the musical episode, they’re both in the same place, so they go on this journey together to get back what they think they’ve lost or not.”
Speaking of crossovers, Kreisberg reiterated what he recently told press: “We’re going to try to do a real, true four-way crossover with all four shows,” therefore including Supergirl as well, rather than just being on The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow. Stephen Amell says he asked CW chief Mark Pedowitz if they’d do a big crossover event every year, and the actor says he responded in the affirmative. “You’re f—ing right we are.”
During the panel, Amell also answered a fan question in regards to whether Oliver and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) would ever get back together. “That’s not really up to me,” he said. “But I will say that they have some really, really cool stuff coming up.”
Supergirl airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET, The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET and Arrow airs Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/18/flash-arrow-supergirl-legends-tomorrow-spoilers-paleyfest/
EXCLUSIVE
The Flash: House Alum Anne Dudek to Recur as Quirky Future Genius
House‘s infamous “cutthroat B” has found herself another Flash-y role.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Anne Dudek is set to recur on the CW hit as Tracy Brand, who is described as “a smorgasbord of quirky idiosyncrasies.”
Showing nary a hint of the greatness that people will celebrate her for in the future, Tracy will set out to find the genius she’s destined to one day become.
The Flash continues its third season this Tuesday at 8/7c, with Episode 17 (aka the musical crossover with Supergirl, guest-starring Melissa Benoist, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood and Chris Wood). Dudek will first appear in Episode 20.
In addition to her run as House‘s Dr. Amber Volakis, Dudek’s previous TV credits include Mad Men, Big Love, Covert Affairs, The Magicians and Comedy Central’s upcoming Hampton DeVille.
The Flash: House Alum Anne Dudek to Recur as Quirky Future Genius
House‘s infamous “cutthroat B” has found herself another Flash-y role.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Anne Dudek is set to recur on the CW hit as Tracy Brand, who is described as “a smorgasbord of quirky idiosyncrasies.”
Showing nary a hint of the greatness that people will celebrate her for in the future, Tracy will set out to find the genius she’s destined to one day become.
The Flash continues its third season this Tuesday at 8/7c, with Episode 17 (aka the musical crossover with Supergirl, guest-starring Melissa Benoist, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood and Chris Wood). Dudek will first appear in Episode 20.
In addition to her run as House‘s Dr. Amber Volakis, Dudek’s previous TV credits include Mad Men, Big Love, Covert Affairs, The Magicians and Comedy Central’s upcoming Hampton DeVille.
EXCLUSIVE
The Flash: House Alum Anne Dudek to Recur as Quirky Future Genius
House‘s infamous “cutthroat B” has found herself another Flash-y role.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Anne Dudek is set to recur on the CW hit as Tracy Brand, who is described as “a smorgasbord of quirky idiosyncrasies.”
Showing nary a hint of the greatness that people will celebrate her for in the future, Tracy will set out to find the genius she’s destined to one day become.
The Flash continues its third season this Tuesday at 8/7c, with Episode 17 (aka the musical crossover with Supergirl, guest-starring Melissa Benoist, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood and Chris Wood). Dudek will first appear in Episode 20.
In addition to her run as House‘s Dr. Amber Volakis, Dudek’s previous TV credits include Mad Men, Big Love, Covert Affairs, The Magicians and Comedy Central’s upcoming Hampton DeVille.
Calling it: she will be a love interest for H.R
Why they start the musical with moon river?!?
Moon fuckin' river....
One of my favorite musical's
Moon fuckin' river....
One of my favorite musical's
Why they start the musical with moon river?!?
Moon fuckin' river....
One of my favorite musical's
Get ready to be clowned.
Or is that OCK'd?
This the gayest funniest episode I've ever seen 
Joe and the professor together
Joe and the professor together
This the gayest funniest episode I've ever seen
Joe and the professor together
Hell.
ALL the "fathers" are Gay.
In matter of speaking.
I still enjoyed the episode. Though I felt there should have been more music.
And as long as "DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'" wasn't one of the songs, I was cool overall with it.
I'm your super friend had me
Wouldve been better if this tied into the current story arc,i.e Supergirl sticks around to help fight Savitar in the next episode
Iris ass in that last scene made up for all the gayness of this episode.
Tonight's epsiode was bought to you by Hearts, Stars, and Horseshoes. Clovers and Blue moons. Pots of gold and rainbows. And red balloons. Oh and the Gays.
You saw it too
I think they took that shot on purpose.You saw it too
No gifs..? hopefully her Fappening pics will be uncovered...
starting to lose me on this bullshit
It's a filler ep, you can skip it.
i was already in bail mode. all these cw shows have gotten pretty lame.
I never thought I would ever say this about an episode of The Flash.
That was some ol' bullshit.
Hot-ass gay-riffic garbage.
Straight throw-away episode.
That was some ol' bullshit.
Hot-ass gay-riffic garbage.
Straight throw-away episode.
need that gif lol!
Andy Williams!! One of my fav Simspons EpisodesWhy they start the musical with moon river?!?
Moon fuckin' river....
One of my favorite musical's
Yes, Jesse Martin can blow for real period I saw him in a YouTube video with him, Cisco and HR. The guy is legit. If I'm not mistaken he used to be on Broadway. He can sing for real
I promise myself I wouldn't watch this episode,but this was what I expected....
At least,it wasn't a whole episode like I was expecting...
Hey, guys, give the episode a chance. It was just one musical episode. Maybe I should sing, it is just one musical!
He also did a never-got-released Marvin Gaye biopic a few years ago.
I'm sick of everybody being a damn speedster.