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as Oliver Queen
as Dinah "Laurel" Lance
as John Diggle
as Robert Queen
as Quentin Lance
as Thea Queen
as Felicity Smoak
as Roy Harper
as Malcolm Merlyn
as Chase
as Damien Darhk
as Walter Steele
as Andy
as The Calculator
as Donna Smoak
as Nyssa
as Sara
as Alex
as Curtis Holt
as Barry Allen
as Kendra Saunders
as Cupid
as Brie Larvan
as Ray
as Vixen
as Jessica Danforth
as Carter Hall
as John Constantine
as Vandal Savage
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Critic Reviews for Arrow: Season 4
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With the more jovial The Flash earning rave reviews, it's no bad thing that its parent series is adopting a little of its offspring's lightness of touch. 'Green Arrow' is the same show, just with a little more colour.
For all of its faults, Season 4 of Arrow deserves quite a bit of credit for giving audiences a proper introduction to the magical elements...However, that wasn't enough to make up for everything Season 4 did wrong.
This could and should be Arrow's culminating season. All the pieces are in place. I expect tons of mystic battle sequences, dramatic introductions, exciting encounters, intriguing crossovers, a little less death, a whole lotta action.
Arrow kicked off the DC Comics universe of TV shows on the CW network and it continues to lean toward the dark side of the genre.
It wasn't bad, by any stretch - the moments of brilliance were surrounded by good padding - but compared to the earlier seasons, it fell a little flat.
Arrow slowly but surely begins to fully embrace its superhero comic book roots. It's a welcome shift in tone for the series, and if "Green Arrow" is any indication, season four of Arrow should be a lot of fun.
Audience Reviews for Arrow: Season 4
Season 4, at its beginning, seemed to assure fans that what they didn't like about its third season had been fixed. This is promptly dropped and Season 4 continues to be as bad as its predecessor was.
Super Reviewer
Oliver Queen faces his most powerful nemesis yet in Season 4 of Arrow. When Star City comes under attack by a criminal organization led by a former member of the League of Assassins named Damien Darhk, Oliver Queen returns, rebranding himself as the new vigilante Green Arrow; and in his civilian life he becomes engaged to his girlfriend Felicity Smoak and makes a run for mayor. Additionally, a major character is killed off, which is teased throughout the season through a series of flash-forwards. And, some new DC characters are brought into the series, including Constantine and Vixen. However, the introduction of magic is problematic; though Neal McDonough does an excellent job playing Damien Darhk and brings a lot to the role. After four seasons Arrow is beginning to wear a little thin and returns to the well a bit too often, yet there's still some life left to the series as it continues to deliver thrilling action and exciting plot turns.
Super Reviewer
Since we last left our heroes, everything has changed. Team Arrow have lost two of their core members; their home have been renamed Star City; and a new and evil group have attacked their city. Once again, we go into that dark beginning that we also got in season three, but not as dark. There is no character dying in the first episode this time around. We get the addition of Neal McDonough as Damien Darhk who were heavily teased during the last season and he is incredible. He plays this role so well. He plays this character as a very dark (no pun intended) and evil man, yet still a caring and loving father who just wants to make this world a better place for his family. His ways to do that, however, may not be the most reasonable. Oliver Queen finally throws aside his former alter-ego and takes on the name of the Green Arrow and that is something that I have been wanting to see ever since the show started back in 2012. The performances are great once again, especially John Barrowman and Paul Blackthorne who should really be considered the "veteran" actors of the show so far. They both give emotional performances when it's needed. The thing that bothered me this time around was the great amount of filler episodes that could have easily been thrown aside. I didn't enjoy those episodes, but when the show focused on the main storylines, they are really making magic. This is of course the season where we lose Laurel Lance and someone would say that it was about time, but I was actually kind of sad to let Katie Cassidy go. I hope she finds something else to do. This was a very good season that could have been better if they had focused on the main story.
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