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Arrow – Season 8, Episode 4 Present Tense

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Arrow – Season 8, Episode 4

Present Tense

Aired Nov 5, 2019

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When a mysterious new Deathstroke appears in Star City, Oliver and Team Arrow insist on taking down this villain themselves; reeling from the loss of one of its own, the future Team Arrow figures out a new way to stop JJ.

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The future is brought into the "Present Tense" in an emotional Arrow installment that provides Stephen Amell with some of his most resonant material yet.

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Allison Shoemaker

AV Club

11/06/2019

A-

Smart, complicated, lively, often funny, with a number of solid performances and one of the single best scenes in the show's history. What a gem.

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Chancellor Agard

Entertainment Weekly

11/06/2019

B+

There aren't any flash-forwards or B-plots. The hour is 100 percent focused on this strange, surprising, and heavy family reunion.

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Laura Hurley

CinemaBlend

11/06/2019

Was "Present Tense" a perfect episode of Arrow? Certainly not. In fact, certain elements of it may make it rank as my least favorite of Season 8 so far... Still, I enjoyed how Arrow continued to handle time travel and parallel universes.

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Alexander Zalben

Decider

11/06/2019

There was actually a ton to like about this week's Arrow, which took the main players from the show's Star City 2040 flashforwards and thrust them into the present timeline.

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Trent Moore

Syfy Wire

11/06/2019

It's a touching moment, and interesting to see from the perspective of the confident 30-something, proudly bonding with his father in this moment.

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Jesse Schedeen

IGN Movies

11/06/2019

7.1/10

Given how badly this episode misses the mark when it comes to Deathstroke, it's a small miracle it still manages to be the second best chapter of Season 8 so far.

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Synopsis

When a mysterious new Deathstroke appears in Star City, Oliver and Team Arrow insist on taking down this villain themselves; reeling from the loss of one of its own, the future Team Arrow figures out a new way to stop JJ.

Director: Kristin Windell
Executive Producer: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, David Nutter
Screenwriter: Oscar Balderrama, Jeane Wong
Network: The CW
Rating: TV-14 (L|V)
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date: Nov 5, 2019